No cloaks, no daggers: the historiography of British Military Intelligence
Journal: NECTAR - Northampton Electronic Collection of Thesis and Research (University of Northampton)
Year: 2013

How academics, novelists, conspiracy theorists and former spies write about intelligence. Secrecy has never stopped people from writing about intelligence. From memoirs and academic texts to conspiracy-laden exposes and spy novels, writing on intelligence abounds despite the intelligence services' reluctance to open their activities up to public scrutiny. Now, this new account uncovers intelligence historiography's hugely important role in shaping popular understandings of intelligence. In this,