Declassified Documents Online: Twentieth Century British Intelligence: An Intelligence Empire (via Gale Scholar Accelerate Program)

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Declassified Documents Online: Twentieth-Century British Intelligence: An Intelligence Empire brings together files from the UK National Archives, covering intelligence and security matters between 1905-2002. Material has been sourced from the UK Ministry of Defence, the Cabinet Office, the Colonial Office, MI5 (British Domestic Security Service), and the SOE (Special Operations Executive), reflecting an intelligence network that reached from the UK and Europe to Africa, the Middle East, Canada, Asia, and Australia during a century of global conflicts, high-stakes diplomacy, and political upheaval.


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