1st Edition

Mask MI5's Penetration of the Communist Party of Great Britain

By Nigel West Copyright 2006
336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

MI5’s dramatic interception of secret signals to Moscow from a hidden base in Wimbledon uncovered the true extent of Soviet espionage in Britain. Intelligence expert Nigel West reveals how MASK, the codename for one of the most secretive sources ever run by British intelligence, enabled Stanley Baldwin and his cabinet to monitor the activities of the Communist Party of Great Britain and... Read more

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Glossary of MASK Terminology

Introduction

Chapters

I The Red Menace

II The Personalities

III The Great Game

IV The MASK Traffic

V Krivitsky’s Defection

VI Bob Stewart

VII Dave Springhall

VIII The Robinson Papers

Conclusion

Appendices

Bibliography

Notes

Biography

Nigel West is a military historian specialising in security and intelligence topics. He lectures at the Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies in Washington DC and is the European editor of the World Intelligence Review. In 1989 he was elected 'the Experts' Expert' by the Observer and in 2003 he was the recipient of the US Association of Former Intelligence Officers' Lifetime Literature Achievement Award.