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Spying on the World

Paperback • 2014 • 1. edition

Spying on the World

By Richard J. Aldrich, Rory Cormac, Michael S. Goodman

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About the book

This is a documentary history of how intelligence influenced Britain's policy response to key 20th century events. For more than 50 years, the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) has been central to the secret machinery of the British Government, acting as a broker between the realms of the spy and the policy-maker. From WWII to the War in Iraq, and from the Falklands to the IRA, it has been involved in almost every key foreign policy decision. These 18 case studies look at key moments in the JIC...Show more

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ISBN

9780748678570

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published year

2014

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1

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Spying on the World

Format

Paperback

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