Wing Commander George Keat of the RAF encountered Soviets forces for the first time in Austria on 1 October 1945, Germany and Austria had been partitioned among the Allies and his task was to take over control of Schwechat Airfield from the Red Army Air Force, and report on what he found there.
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The hidden hand
Britain, America, and Cold War secret intelligence
by Richard J. Aldrich
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United States, Great Britain. MI6, Cold War, United States. Central Intelligence Agency, Intelligence service, Great Britain, History, 15.59 history of great parts of the world, peoples, civilizations: other, Geheimdienst, Ost-West-Konflikt, Inlichtingendiensten, Koude Oorlog, Secret service, Großbritannien Secret Intelligence Service, Großbritannien, USA Central Intelligence Agency, USATimes
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: Historians of Secret Service and their Enemies 1
PART I FROM WORLD WAR TO COLD WAR, 1941-1945 17
1. Fighting with the Russians 19
2. A Cold War in Whitehall 43
3. Secret Service at the War's End: SIS and the CIA 64
PART II THE COLD WAR GETS GOING, 1945-1949 89
4. MI5: Defectors, Spy-trials and Subversion 91
5. The Counter-Offensive: From CRD to IRD 122
6. The Fifth Column of Freedom: Britain Embraces
Liberation 142
7. Liberation or Provocation? Special Operations in the
Eastern Bloc 160
8. The Front Line: Intelligence in Germany and Austria 180
9. Operation Dick Tracy: Air Intelligence in London
and Washington 206
10. The Failure of Atomic Intelligence 218
11. GCHQ: Signals Intelligence Looks East 233
12. Defeat in Palestine 256
PART III THE COLD WAR TURNS HOT, 1950-1956 269
13. The Korean War 271
14. Cold War Fighting in Asia 293
15. The Struggle to Contain Liberation 315
16. The CIA's Federalist Operation: ACUE and the
European Movement 342
17. Atomic Deception and Atomic Intelligence 371
18. At the Coal Face: Intelligence-Gathering 392
19. Moles and Defectors: The Impact of Guy Burgess and
Donald Maclean 421
20. At Home and Abroad: The Information Research
Department 443
21. Defeat in the Middle East: Iran and Suez 464
22. Victory in Malaya 494
PART IV THE COLD WAR WIDENS, 1957-1963 519
23. Submarines, Spy-flights and Shoot-downs: Intelligence
after Suez 521
24. Missiles and Mergers: Strategic Intelligence 550
25. Cyprus: The Last Foothold 567
26. Working Groups: Special Operations in the Third World 581
27. The Hidden Hand Exposed: From the Bay of Pigs
to Profumo 607
'Behind the scenes of history' 637.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [691]-716) and index.
Originally published: London : John Murray, 2001.
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