Book Description
In 1940, Churchill authorised the creation of a highly secret organisation in New York to supervise the activities of MI5, SOE, the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) and the Political Warfare Executive in the western hemisphere. Headed by the Canadian industrialist Sir William Stephenson, its first tasks were to promote British interests in the United States, counter Nazi propaganda and protect the Atlantic convoys from enemy sabotage. Despite clashing with Edgar J. Hoover's FBI, British Security Co-ordination (BSC) soon went on to develop a vast intelligence network which stretched from Chile to Bermuda, from the Caribbean to Vancouver. Security personnel arrested Axis spies; mail censors intercepted the enemy's clandestine communications; undercover agents fomented anti-Nazi activity across Latin America; and schemes were developed to harass Vichy, Italian and Japanese diplomats. Revealed here for the first time are BSC's ingenious attempts to undermine US isolationism and influence American public opinion. The previously classified history of BSC has remained hidden in Whitehall vaults since the end of the war, and amounts to an astonishing catalogue of dirty tricks.
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Synopsis
The British ran intelligence and propaganda operations in the US beginning in 1940. Because the US was still a neutral country, the operations were illegal but were winked at by US officials. After the war a complete report was prepared, and while it's existence was often rumored, it remained secret, in only ten copies, until recently. Military his
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