Gilbratar Sabotage
Author : John Gunn
Publisher : john gunn
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 35,63 MB
Release : 2006
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ISBN : 9780977589968
Author : John Gunn
Publisher : john gunn
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 35,63 MB
Release : 2006
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ISBN : 9780977589968
Author : Bernard O'Connor
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 44,78 MB
Release : 2020-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0244850194
During the Second World War, Gibraltar faced the threat of invasion by Italy, Germany, and Spain. The Abwehr, the German Intelligence Service, rather than use their own saboteurs, paid young Spanish men to undertake over sixty sabotage attacks on military installations and shipping with limited success. The Italian Decima Flotilla MAS, a specialist team of underwater frogmen, launched eight attacks which were relatively successful and Spanish Falangists made several unsuccessful attempts. The British Secret Intelligence Service endeavoured to stop or at least limit such attacks. Using contemporary files from the National Archives in Kew, autobiographies, biographies, histories and newspaper articles, this documentary history investigates the successes and failures of these attacks on Gibraltar and the roles played by intelligence officers, agents, double agents in discovering and preventing such acts. The book sheds light on an unusual and largely overlooked aspect of Gibraltar's history.
Author : Bernard O'Connor
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 49,80 MB
Release : 2020-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0244550360
During the Second World War, the British military and intelligence agencies had plans in case Germany invaded Spain and Portugal. This involved training British and Spanish agents to be secretly infiltrated to undertake sabotage operations on important lines of communication and liaising with pro-British locals. At the same time the Abwehr, Germany's military intelligence agency, paid young Spanish and Portuguese collaborators to undertake sabotage missions against Allied military and economic targets in Iberia but they had limited success. Italian saboteurs from the Decima Flotigglia MAS were more successful using underwater divers to attack Allied shipping. Using declassified files from Britain's National Archives, autobiographies, biographies and newspaper articles, this documentary history sheds new light on an unusual aspect of Iberian history telling a human story of international diplomacy, political intrigue, secret agents, clandestine warfare, military strategy, nationalism, and deception.
Author : John Court Curry
Publisher : Public Record Office Publications
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 22,93 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN :
This history of M.I.5 remained Top Secret for over 50 years. It is now revealed and includes details of British intelligence's many coups from World War II.
Author : Brett Lintott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 23,99 MB
Release : 2018-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1351840428
This book describes and analyzes the history of the Mediterranean "Double-Cross System" of the Second World War, an intelligence operation run primarily by British officers which turned captured German spies into double agents. Through a complex system of coordination, they were utilized from 1941 to the end of the war in 1945 to secure Allied territory through security and counter-intelligence operations, and also to deceive the German military by passing false information about Allied military planning and operations. The primary questions addressed by the book are: how did the double-cross-system come into existence; what effects did it have on the intelligence war and the broader military conflict; and why did it have those effects? The book contains chapters assessing how the system came into being and how it was organized, and also chapters which analyze its performance in security and counter-intelligence operations, and in deception.
Author : Nigel West
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 32,85 MB
Release : 2018-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0750987383
The Second World War saw the role of espionage, secret agents and spy services increase exponentially as the world was thrown into a conflict unlike any that had gone before it. At this time, no one in government was really aware of what MI5 and its brethren did. But with Churchill at the country's helm, it was decided to let him in on the secret, providing him with a weekly report of the spy activities. These reports were so classified that he was handed each report personally and copies were never allowed to be made, nor was he allowed to keep hold of them. Even now, the documents only exist as physical copies deep in the archives, many pages annotated by hand by 'W.S.C.' himself. In Churchill's Spy Files intelligence expert Nigel West unravels the tales of hitherto unknown spy missions, using this groundbreaking research to paint a fresh picture of the worldwide intelligence scene of the Second World War.
Author : F. H. Hinsley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 34,27 MB
Release : 1990-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521394093
The first three volumes of the series dealt with the influence of intelligence on strategy and operations. Volume 4 analyzes the contribution made by intelligence to the work of the authorities responsible for countering the threats of subversion, sabotage and intelligence gathering by the enemy in the United Kingdom and British territories overseas, and neutral countries. It describes the evolution of the security intelligence agencies between the wars and the security situation in September 1939. This volume reviews the arguments about security policy regarding enemy aliens, Fascists and Communists in the winter of 1939-1940 and during the Fifth Column panic in the summer of 1940. It describes how the security system, still at that time inadequately organized and poorly informed, was developed into an efficient machine and how, with invaluable help from signals intelligence and other sources and by the skillful use of double agents, the operation of the enemy intelligence services were effectively countered. In conclusion, it notes the consistent subservience of the Communist Party to the interests of the USSR and the likely threat to British security.
Author : Thomas Hennessey
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 44,17 MB
Release : 2010-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1445608006
The real history of MI5.
Author : John Gunn
Publisher : john gunn
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 16,23 MB
Release : 2006
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ISBN : 9780977589944
Author : John Gunn
Publisher : john gunn
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 19,66 MB
Release : 2006
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ISBN : 9780977589951