# Nigel West

Nigel West est le nom de plume de Rupert Allason, né le 8 novembre 1951, ancien membre du parlement britannique et conservateur de 1987 à 1997, historien et écrivain spécialiste de l'espionnage.

## Œuvres

* Richard Deacon avec Nigel West, Spy!, Londres, British Broadcasting Corporation, 1980.
* MI5: British Security Service Operations, 1909-1945, New York, Stein and Day, 1981.
* A Matter of Trust: MI5 1945-72, Londres, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982 ; publié aux États-Unis sous le titre The Circus: MI5 operations 1945-1972, New York, Stein and Day, 1983.
* MI6: British Secret Intelligence Service Operations, 1909-45, Londres, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983.
* (sous son vrai nom de Rupert Allason) The Branch: A History of the Metropolitan Police Special Branch 1883-1983, Londres, Secker & Warburg, 1983.
* Unreliable Witness: Espionage Myths of the Second World War, Londres, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984 ; publié aux États-Unis sous le titre A Thread of Deceit: Espionage Myths of World War II, New York, Random House, 1985.
* avec Juan Pujol, Operation Garbo: The Personal Story of the Most Successful Double Agent of World War II, Londres: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1985.
* GCHQ: The Secret Wireless War, 1900-86, Londres, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986 ; publié aux États-Unis sous le titre The SIGINT Secrets: The Signals Intelligence War, 1900 to Today, New York, Morrow, 1988.
* Molehunt: The Full Story of the Soviet Spy in MI5, Londres, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987.
* The Friends: Britain's Post-War Secret Intelligence operations, Londres, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988.
* Games of Intelligence: The Classified Conflict of International Espionage, Londres, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1989.
* The Blue List, Londres, Secker & Warburg, 1989 (ISBN 0-4365-6602-8) (roman).
* Cuban Bluff, Londres, Secker & Warburg, 1990 (roman).
* Seven Spies Who Changed the World, Londres, Secker & Warburg, 1991.
* Secret War: The Story of SOE, Britain's Wartime Sabotage Organisation, Londres, Hodder & Stoughton, 1992.
* Murder in the Commons, Londres, 1992 (roman).
* (dir.) The Faber Book of Espionage, Faber & Faber, Londres & Boston, 1993.
* The Illegals: The Double Lives of the Cold War's Most Secret Agents, Hodder & Stoughton , 1993.
* Murder in the Lords, Londres, 1994 (roman).
* (dir.) The Faber Book of Treachery, Faber & Faber, Londres, 1995.
* The Secret War for the Falklands: SAS, MI6 and the War Whitehall Nearly Lost, Londres, Little Brown, 1997 (ISBN 0-7515-2071-3).
* avec Oleg Tsarev, The Crown Jewels: The British Secrets Exposed by the KGB Archives, Londres, HarperCollins, 1998.
* Counterfeit Spies: Genuine or Bogus? An Astonishing Investigation into Secret Agents of the Second World War, Londres, St. Ermin's, 1998.
* (introduction) British Security Coordination: The Secret History of British Intelligence in the Americas, 1940-45, Londres, St. Ermin's, 1998.
* Venona: The Greatest Secret of the Cold War: HarperCollins, 1999 (ISBN 0-00-653071-0).
* The Third Secret: The CIA, Solidarity and the KGB's Plot to Kill the Pope, HarperCollins, 2000.
* Mortal Crimes: The Greatest Theft in History: Soviet Penetration of the Manhattan Project, New York, Enigma Books, 2004.
* (dir.) The Guy Liddell Diaries, Vol. I: 1939-1942 et Vol II: 1942-1945, Routlege, Londres, 2005.
* Historical Dictionary of British Intelligence, Scarecrow Press, Londres, 2005.
* Mask: MI5's Penetration of the Communist Party of Great Britain, Frank Cass Publishers, 2005.
* At Her Majesty's Secret Service: The Chiefs of Britain's Intelligence Agency, MI6, Greenhill Books, Londres, 2006.
* Historical Dictionary of International Intelligence, Scarecrow Press, 2006.
* Historical Dictionary of Cold War Counterintelligence, Scarecrow Press, 2007.
* Historical Dictionary of World War II Intelligence, Scarecrow Press, 2007.
* Historical Dictionary of Sexspionage, Scarecrow Press, 2009.
* Historical Dictionary of Ian Fleming's World of Intelligence: Fact and Fiction, Scarecrow Press, 2009.
* avec Oleg Tsarev (dirs.), TRIPLEX: Secrets from the Cambridge Spies, New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2009.
* Historical Dictionary of Naval Intelligence, Scarecrow Press, 2010.
* avec Madoc Roberts, SNOW: The Double Life of a World War II Spy, New York, Dialogue, 2011.
* I. C. Smith et Nigel West, Historical Dictionary of Chinese Intelligence, Scarecrow Press, 2012.
* Historical Dictionary of Signals Intelligence, Scarecrow Press, 2012.
* Historical Dictionary of World War I Intelligence, Scarecrow Press, 2013.
* David Price et Nigel West, The London Spy Guide, Volume One: First World War, Thistle Publishing, 2014.
* (dir.) MI5 in the Great War, Londres, Backbite Publishing, 2014.
* Double Cross in Cairo: The True Story of the Spy Who Turned the Tide of War in the Middle East, Biteback, 2015 — sur l'agent double Renato Levi (nom de code CHEESE).
* Cold War Counterfeit Spies: Tales of Espionage - Genuine or Bogus?, Frontline Books, 2016.
* Spycraft Secrets: An Espionage A-Z, The History Press, 2016.
* Churchill's Spy Files: MI5's Top-Secret Wartime Reports, The History Press, 2018.
* Cold War Spymaster: The Legacy of Guy Liddell, Deputy Director of MI5, Frontline Books, 2018.
* Codeword Overlord: Axis Espionage and the D-Day Landings, The History Press, 2019.
* (dir.) Guy Liddell's Cold War MI5 Diaries, Volume 1: June 1945-December 1947 ; Volume 2: January 1948-December 1950 et Volume 3: January 1951-May 1953, autoédition, 2019.
* The Kompromat Conspiracy: The Truth About the Trump Dossier, autoédition, 2020.
* Spy Swap: The Humiliation of Russia's Intelligence Services, Frontline Books, 2020.
* (fr) Black Ops: Les opérations militaires secrètes de 1914 à nos jours [« Black Ops »], Vanves, E/P/A, 2020.
* Historical Dictionary of Cold War Intelligence, Scarecrow Press, 2021.
* Spies Who Changed History: The Greatest Spies and Agents of the 20th Century, Frontline Books, 2022.
* Hitler's Nest of Vipers: The Rise of the Abwehr, Frontline Books, 2022.
* Hitler's Trojan Horse: The Fall of the Abwehr, 1943-1945, Frontline Books, 2022.
* Classified!: The Adventures of a Molehunter, Biteback Publishing, 2024.