The hidden hand
Subtitle: Britain, America, and Cold War secret intelligence
By: Richard J. Aldrich.
Publisher: Overlook Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Woodstock, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 733
Subjects: United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Great Britain. MI6; Intelligence service -- History -- 20th century; Cold War
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [691]-716) and index.
Originally published: London : John Murray, 2001.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Historians of Secret Service and their Enemies 1; title: PART I FROM WORLD WAR TO COLD WAR, 1941-1945 17; title: 1. Fighting with the Russians 19; title: 2. A Cold War in Whitehall 43; title: 3. Secret Service at the War's End: SIS and the CIA 64; title: PART II THE COLD WAR GETS GOING, 1945-1949 89; title: 4. MI5: Defectors, Spy-trials and Subversion 91; title: 5. The Counter-Offensive: From CRD to IRD 122; title: 6. The Fifth Column of Freedom: Britain Embraces; title: Liberation 142; title: 7. Liberation or Provocation? Special Operations in the; title: Eastern Bloc 160; title: 8. The Front Line: Intelligence in Germany and Austria 180; title: 9. Operation Dick Tracy: Air Intelligence in London; title: and Washington 206; title: 10. The Failure of Atomic Intelligence 218; title: 11. GCHQ: Signals Intelligence Looks East 233; title: 12. Defeat in Palestine 256; title: PART III THE COLD WAR TURNS HOT, 1950-1956 269; title: 13. The Korean War 271; title: 14. Cold War Fighting in Asia 293; title: 15. The Struggle to Contain Liberation 315; title: 16. The CIA's Federalist Operation: ACUE and the; title: European Movement 342; title: 17. Atomic Deception and Atomic Intelligence 371; title: 18. At the Coal Face: Intelligence-Gathering 392; title: 19. Moles and Defectors: The Impact of Guy Burgess and; title: Donald Maclean 421; title: 20. At Home and Abroad: The Information Research; title: Department 443; title: 21. Defeat in the Middle East: Iran and Suez 464; title: 22. Victory in Malaya 494; title: PART IV THE COLD WAR WIDENS, 1957-1963 519; title: 23. Submarines, Spy-flights and Shoot-downs: Intelligence; title: after Suez 521; title: 24. Missiles and Mergers: Strategic Intelligence 550; title: 25. Cyprus: The Last Foothold 567; title: 26. Working Groups: Special Operations in the Third World 581; title: 27. The Hidden Hand Exposed: From the Bay of Pigs; title: to Profumo 607; title: 'Behind the scenes of history' 637.