The Secret History of MI6 by Keith Jeffery

Author:Keith Jeffery
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science, Non-fiction, History, Politics
ISBN: 9781101443460
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2010-09-01T00:00:00+00:00

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From Budapest to Baghdad

The ‘nightmare scenario’ for British strategic policy-makers in the 1930s posed by the potential simultaneous challenge of three great powers - Germany, Italy and Japan - affected and perplexed SIS just as much as any of the armed services, and although Sir Hugh Sinclair had striven to sharpen up the Service with this threat in mind, there was neither the political will in Whitehall nor the money available for him to do very much at all. Inevitably - and rightly - the main focus was on Germany, but this meant that intelligence operations in the Mediterranean, the Middle East (where in any case it was hoped that Britain’s ally France could help out) and further afield in Asia were comparatively neglected, at least until the situation was brutally transformed by the German conquests in Northern and Western Europe, the entry of Italy into the war in June 1940 and that of Japan in December 1941.

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