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Misdefending the Realm: How MI5's incompetence enabled Communist Subversion of Britain's Institutions during the Nazi-Soviet Pact

Antony Percy
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      When, early in 1940, an important Soviet defector provided hints to British Intelligence about spies within the country's institutions, MI5's report was intercepted by a Soviet agent in the Home Office... She alerted her lover, Isaiah Berlin, and Berlin's friend, Guy Burgess, whereupon the pair initiated a rapid counter-attack. Burgess contrived a reason for the two of them to visit the Soviet Union, which was then an ally of Nazi Germany, in order to alert his bosses of the threat and protect the infamous 'Cambridge Spies'. The story of this extraordinary escapade, hitherto ignored by the historians, lies at the heart of a thorough and scholarly expose of MI5's constitutional inability to resist communist infiltration of Britain's corridors of power and its later attempt to cover up its negligence. This book will be of interest to all students of history, international relations, espionage and civil, national and international security.
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Antony Percy EAN: 9781908684967 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 689 g HEIGHT: 230 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: The University of Buckingham Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2017-10-26 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Russia / General WIDTH: 160 cm SPINE:

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      United Kingdom, Great Britain, USSR, Soviet Union, c 1940 to c 1949, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Espionage and secret services, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, Second World War

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      When, early in 1940, an important Soviet defector provided hints to British Intelligence about spies within the country's institutions, MI5's report was intercepted by a Soviet agent in the Home Office... She alerted her lover, Isaiah Berlin, and Berlin's friend, Guy Burgess, whereupon the pair initiated a rapid counter-attack. Burgess contrived a reason for the two of them to visit the Soviet Union, which was then an ally of Nazi Germany, in order to alert his bosses of the threat and protect the infamous 'Cambridge Spies'. The story of this extraordinary escapade, hitherto ignored by the historians, lies at the heart of a thorough and scholarly expose of MI5's constitutional inability to resist communist infiltration of Britain's corridors of power and its later attempt to cover up its negligence. This book will be of interest to all students of history, international relations, espionage and civil, national and international security.
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Antony Percy EAN: 9781908684967 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 689 g HEIGHT: 230 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: The University of Buckingham Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2017-10-26 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Russia / General WIDTH: 160 cm SPINE:

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      United Kingdom, Great Britain, USSR, Soviet Union, c 1940 to c 1949, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Espionage and secret services, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, Second World War

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