جزییات کتاب
account of the structure of the various agencies involved in foreign intelligence work and covert operations, in particular Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), which is responsible for electronic eavesdropping and most of whose work is illegal under international law; the Defence Intelligence Staff; MI6, the foreign intelligence service; and the army’s Special Air Service regiment. these agencies operated to try and shore up the british empire in the period after 1945…in each case, the methods used were much the same: infiltration of anti-colonial and opposition movements, harassment and arrest of prominent oppositionists, the spread of disinformation, the creation of front organisations, and the use of existing organisations, particularly in the student and trade union movements.