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'No Wishful Thinking Allowed': Secret Service Committee and Intelligence Reform in Great Britain, 1919-23.
- Source :
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Intelligence & National Security . Spring2003, Vol. 18 Issue 1, p1-20. 20p. - Publication Year :
- 2003
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Abstract
- The May 2002 tranche of British Security Service files released to the Public Record Office included hitherto classified policy files containing documents on Secret Service Committee meetings held from 1919 to 1923. This body wrote an important yet relatively obscure chapter in British intelligence history: the post-First World War reorganization and retasking of British secret service machinery, the focus now being Soviet Russia. However, by encouraging the deliberate overstatement of the Bolshevik 'subversive' threat and then backing excessive measures to counter it, some British officials may have sown the seeds of government's later inability to detect a much graver peril to national security, that of Soviet espionage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02684527
- Volume :
- 18
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Intelligence & National Security
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 11407756
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02684520308559244