Priestley, R.E. The Signal Service in the European War of 1914 to 1918. London: Institute of Royal Engineers, 1921. Priestley, R.E. The Signal Service in the European War of 1914 to 1918. London: Institute of Royal Engineers, 1921.
Proctor, Tammy M. Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War. New York and London: New York University Press, 2003.
Olmsted, I&NS 19.2, calls this book a "superb history of female spies who worked for the British" in World War I. The author "ably details the many roles that women played in the intelligence bureaucracy during the war.... [And she] makes some trenchant observations about the gendered nature of intelligence."
According to Peake, Studies 47.4 (2003), the author "discovered that at a time when women could not vote or hold political office, more than 6,000 had worked in a variety of sensitive intelligence-related positions.... They served as clerks and couriers, telephone and telegraph operators, code and cipher analysts, and spies behind enemy lines in Europe."
Redier,
Antoine. The Story of Louise de Bettignies. London: Hutchinson, 1925.
In World War I, Louise de Bettignies worked for the British and the French as a spy and aided escaped Allied prisoners of war. She was captured by the Germans and, although a death sentence was commuted, she died in prison in 1918. Polmar and Allen, Spy Book, p. 157.
Sanders, Michael L., and Phillip M. Taylor. British Propaganda during the First World War, 1914-1918. London: Macmillan, 1982. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 1983. [pb]
Wilcox says that this is a "[s]cholarly analysis."
Santoni,
Alberto. "The First Ultra Secret: The British Cryptanalysis in the
Naval Operations of the First World War." Revue internationale d'histoire
militaire 63 (Oct. 1985): 99-110. [Sexton]
Seligmann, Matthew S. Spies in Uniform: British Military and Naval Intelligence on the Eve of the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Stevenson, I&NS 21.6 (Dec. 2006), comments that "[t]his book fills a very significant gap in our knowledge of British policy towards Germany" before World War I. The focus is on "the military and naval attachés in Berlin between 1900 and 1914." The author's "lucidly constructed presentation is rich in detail."
For Boghardt, DIJ 16.1 (2007), this is "a fine study of a hitherto underappreciated intelligence provider to the British government.... [It] is highly recommended to anyone interested in Anglo-German relations, pre-World War I intelligence, and the role of service attachés in the intelligence gathering process."
Seligmann, Matthew S. "A View From Berlin: Colonel Frederick Trench and the Development of British Perceptions of German Aggressive Intent, 1906–1910." Journal of Strategic Studies 23, no. 2 (2000).
From abstract: Trench was British military attaché in Berlin from 1906 to 1910. "At this time, the British Army ... had to rely heavily on the reports of military attachés for information about their continental rivals. Trench, who believed that Germany planned to wage war against Britain..., was the main source of data on the German Army. From the limited surviving records of who read these reports and how they responded to them, this essay posits that Trench’s views contributed to the growing British perception of a German threat, a perception that did much to influence British strategic planning in this period."
Silber,
Jules. The Invisible Weapons. London: Hutchinson, 1932.
According to Constantinides, Silber was a German agent who worked in British censorship in World War I. His books claim many heady accomplishments, but independent confirmation is lacking.
Smith,
Michael. "How MI5's Major K Unmasked German 'Birdwatchers.'" Electronic
Telegraph, 18 Nov. 1997. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk]
Files placed in the Public Record Office indicate that Vernon Kell's nascent MI5 enjoyed considerable success in identifying and containing German agents before and during World War I.
Spence, Richard B. "Interrupted Journey: British Intelligence and the Arrest of Leon Trotskii, April 1917." Revolutionary Russia 13, no. 1 (Jun. 2000): 1-28.
Spence, Richard B. "Secret Agent 666: Aleister Crowley and British Intelligence in America, 1914-1918." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 13, no. 3 (Fall 2000): 359-371.
Despite Crowley's virulent anti-British/anti-Allied writings in U.S. publications during World War I, materials from the archives of the U.S. Army Military Intelligence Division convince the author that Crowley was working for British intelligence.
Taylor, Philip M. "The
Foreign Office and British Propaganda during the First World War."
Historical Journal 23, no. 4 (Dec. 1980): 875-898.
Calder: "A detailed discussion of organizational politics associated with the Foreign Office role in the propaganda administration."
Tuohy,
Ferdinand. The Secret Corps: A Tale of "Intelligence" on All
Fronts. London: Murray, 1920. [Chambers]
Warman, Roberta M.
"The Erosion of Foreign Office Influence in the Making of Foreign Policy,
1916-1918." Historical Journal 15, no. 1 (Mar. 1972): 133-159.
Calder notes that the article "[i]ncludes discussion of the role of the Military Intelligence Division and the Political Intelligence Bureau."
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