- Hardcover: 384 pages
- Publisher: Yale University Press (2 Oct 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0300123477
- ISBN-13: 978-0300123470
- Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 16.4 x 2.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 678,696 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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`This fascinating volume contains a full and instructive exposure of the British intelligence set-up.'
--A.G Noorani, Frontline (India), 12th February 2010
--A.G Noorani, Frontline (India), 12th February 2010
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'Triplex' reveals more clearly than ever before the precise nature and extent of the damage done to the much-vaunted British intelligence establishment during World War II by the notorious 'Cambridge Five' spy ring - Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross. The code word 'Triplex' refers to an exceptionally sensitive intelligence source, one of the most closely guarded secrets of the war, which appears nowhere in any of the British government's official histories. 'Triplex' was material extracted illicitly from the diplomatic pouches of neutral missions in wartime London. MI5, the British Security Service, entrusted the job of overseeing the highly secret assignment to Anthony Blunt, who was already working for the NKVD, Stalin's intelligence service. The rest is history, documented here for the first time in rich detail.
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I was surprised and ultimately disappointed with this book.
With the author being Nigel West I did expect it to be more or less as his others, a good story and read.
All this is are files that have been released by whoever and made into a book. It will only be of interest I believe to someone who is studying the Cambridge Spies for research as it is not a story as one would think.
A far better read is 'Treachery' by Chapman Pincher of the same people. It is an in depth story of the Cambridge Spies and update with official papers that have been released over the years.
Better still now is 'GCHQ' by Richard Aldrich, an update on most of Pincher's comments.
With the author being Nigel West I did expect it to be more or less as his others, a good story and read.
All this is are files that have been released by whoever and made into a book. It will only be of interest I believe to someone who is studying the Cambridge Spies for research as it is not a story as one would think.
A far better read is 'Treachery' by Chapman Pincher of the same people. It is an in depth story of the Cambridge Spies and update with official papers that have been released over the years.
Better still now is 'GCHQ' by Richard Aldrich, an update on most of Pincher's comments.
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