Nosing out secrets
MIS: British Secret intelligence Service operations 1909-45. By Nigel West. Granada, 1985. 223 pp. $12.95 (paperback).
Nigel West has been poking his nose into the supposedly secret corridors of Whitehall so successfully that he has now virtually become the unofficial historian of the British secret services. This latest book is a paperback version of his hardcover history of the grandmother of intelligence services, which was published last year by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. MI6 has been in the spy business longer than any of its allies or adversaries such as the KGB. Like two earlier books on Ml6’s sister service, MIS, West’s latest offering is an impressive example of research and reconstruction. It has been put together in a narrative as fascinating as a le Carre novel, yet ranks as an authoritative historical work. — Jeremy Owen.
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