ABSTRACT

This book examines the structural development of the Secret Intelligence Service from its inception to the end of the Cold War.

chapter 1|25 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|30 pages

Origins and the First World War, 1903–18

chapter 3|42 pages

The Inter-war Years, 1919–39

chapter 4|77 pages

War Without and Within, 1939–45

chapter 5|76 pages

A New Kind of War, 1946–56

chapter 7|35 pages

Machineries of Government and Intelligence