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Coakley, Robert W., and Stetson Conn. The War of the American Revolution: Narrative,
Chronology, and Bibliography. Washington, DC: GPO, 1975.
Petersen: "Significant coverage of espionage."
[RevWar/Refs]
Coates,
John. Suppressing Insurgency: An Analysis of the Malayan Emergency, 1948-1954. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1992.
Surveillant 3.2/3: Coates "reassesses the view of the British suppression of communist insurgency in Malaya contrasted with the performance of the U.S. in Vietnam many years later."
[UK/Postwar/Malaya]
Cobain, Ian.
1. "The Chatham House Spy." Times (London), 16 Sep. 2000. [http://www. the-times.co.uk]
Evidence that the East Germans had a spy at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) is found in "two sources within the files of the Stasi's foreign intelligence division, the Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung" (HVA).
"After the Berlin Wall came down, most of the files were destroyed.... A few fragments survived, including the archives of its Leipzig outstation....
"Even more revealing is a coded index known as Sira, short for System for Information Research of the HVA, intended as a guide to the mountains of paper files. Stasi librarians encrypted the Sira index and transferred it to magnetic tape shortly before the collapse of the communist regime....
"After six years of effort,... the code has now been cracked by a former telephone engineer working for the German Government Commission for the Stasi Archive, the organisation responsible for collating the data gathered by the intelligence agency.
"The Sira index ... list[s] the titles of intelligence reports from countless Stasi agents around the world, including those that British moles submitted to their handlers at the London embassy."
2. "The Stasi Spy from St James's." Times (London), 16 Sep. 2000. [http:// www.the-times.co.uk]
As revealed by newly decoded files in Berlin, a Stasi spy "worked at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) for at least six years during the 1980s, coming into contact with Margaret Thatcher, the Prime Minister, and countless other statesmen.
"Operating under the codename Eckart, he supplied the Communist leadership in East Germany with a stream of sensitive information from the influential think-tank....
"The files show that Eckart also secretly supplied intelligence briefings on forthcoming Royal Navy manoeuvres and Nato planning, and handed over a number of documents apparently stolen from Chatham House."
3. "Archives Reveal Sheer Scale of Stasi Spy Ring." Times (London), 18 Sep. 2000. [http://www.the-times.co.uk]
"The enormous scale of East German espionage in Britain has been laid bare with the decoding of the archives of the secret police, the Stasi. At least 28 highly placed spies worked for the Communist regime during the last days of the Cold War, providing sensitive information on almost every area of British life."
[Germany/East; UK/PostCW]
Cobain, Ian, David Hencke, and Richard Norton-Taylor. "MI5 Told MPs on Eve of 7/7: No Imminent Terror Threat." The Guardian, 9 Jan. 2007. [http://www.guardian.co.uk]
MI5 Director-General Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller told "a private meeting of Labour whips at the Commons on the morning" of 6 July 2005 that "there was no imminent terrorist threat to London or the rest of the country." This came "less than 24 hours before the July 7 suicide bombings."
In December 2006, "Dame Eliza announced that she is to retire in April. That announcement came weeks before details are expected to be made public of an MI5 operation which saw two of the July 7 bombers kept under surveillance, but not arrested.... Whitehall is now trawling for candidates to replace Dame Eliza. The clear favourite is Jonathan Evans, her respected deputy, who has led MI5's al-Qaida-related counterterrorist operations."
[UK/PostCW/00s/07]
Cobban, Alfred.
Ambassadors and Secret Agents: The Diplomacy of the First Earl of Malmesbury
at the Hague. London: Jonathan Cape, 1954.
To Pforzheimer, this book is an "excellent ... account of British and French intrigue during a revolution in Holland in the 1780's." Constantinides refers to Ambassadors and Secret Agents as a "most impressive work on secret service.... [Cobban] gives a fascinating picture of the secret intelligence, propaganda, and political war waged in the Dutch Republic."
[UK/Historical]
Coburn, Mike. Soldier Five: The Real Truth about the Bravo Two Zero Mission. Edinburgh: Mainstream, 2004.
From advertisement: "Bravo Two Zero has become one of the most notorious episodes in military history. Several accounts of the ill-fated SAS mission behind Iraqi lines during the 1991 Gulf War have already been published but in Soldier Five, Mike Coburn, one of the eight members of the patrol, now seeks to set the story straight and honour the memory of his three comrades who were killed."
[UK/Postwar/SAS/Iraq]
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