USED MI5 – THE TRUE STORY OF THE MOST SECRET COUNT

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Used, “MI5: The True Story of the Most Secret” by Nigel West

MI5 is arguably the most secret and misunderstood of all the British government departments. Its enigmatic title – much more than its proper name, the Security Service – stands in the public mind for the dark world of the secret services in general. In reality, it has a very specific brief: counterintelligence. Its object is to combat espionage and subversion directed against the UK.

Nigel West’s book traces the history of MI5 clearly and accurately from its modest beginnings in 1909 until 1945, with the main part of the book focusing on the important role which MI5 played in the Second World War. This includes the story of the sixteen enemy agents who were rounded up in Britain and were either hanged or shot; the manipulation of the Axis espionage networks by the use of ‘turned’ Abwehr agents (the famous Double Cross System), and the all-important check on its success provided by the intercepted German signals so brilliantly decoded at Bletchley, and the various deceptions practiced on the German High Command.

Features:

• 365 pages total