Maggie’s Hobby
Nicholas Hiley, 11 December 1997
New cloak, Old dagger: How Britain’s Spies Came in from the Cold
by Michael Smith.
Gollancz, 338 pp., £20, November 1996,0 575 06150 2 Show More
by Michael Smith.
Gollancz, 338 pp., £20, November 1996,
Intelligence Power in Peace and War
by Michael Herman.
Cambridge, 436 pp., £50, October 1996,0 521 56231 7 Show More
by Michael Herman.
Cambridge, 436 pp., £50, October 1996,
“... population. Fear of the Left was indeed so strong that in 1918 the Prime Minister was advised to grant the secret services £1,000,000 invested in the War Loan, to protect their finances against any postwar Labour government. As Michael Smith describes, these problems were exacerbated by the budget cuts which followed the ... ”