Live and let spy
Subtitle: Brixmis : the last Cold War mission
By: Steve Gibson
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stroud, Gloucestershire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9780752477664; 9780752465807
Subjects: Cold War; British Espionage; Government; British Commander-in-Chief's Mission to the Group of Soviet Forces of Occupation in Germany; General; Secret service; POLITICAL SCIENCE; International; International Relations; History
Description: BRIXMIS (The British Commander-In-Chief's Mission to the Group Soviet Forces of Occupation in Germany) is one of the most little-known and covert elite units of the British Army. They were dropped in behind 'enemy lines' ten months after the Second World War had ended and remained operation their intelligence-gathering missions until the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. During the period Berlin was a hotbed of spying between East and West. BRIXMIS was established as a legitimate channel of communcation between the Red Army and the British Army on the Rhine, they were trusted by.
Notes: Includes index.