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Book Reviews

Ebb and Flow of Trans-Atlantic Ties

Michael Smith:The Real Special Relationship: The True Story of How the British and US Secret Services Work Together. Simon & Shuster, London, 2022, 553 p., 25 GBP.

Pages 817-820 | Published online: 19 Jan 2023
 

Notes

1 While serving in the Department of State, I had the occasion to work with officials in lead roles in intelligence assigned to the British embassy in Washington, DC; one later moved up to become British ambassador to Germany and to Spain.

2 Smith, The Real Special Relationship, pp. 29, 72; and Bradley Smith, The Ultra-Magic Deals and the Most Secret Special Relationship, 1940–1946 ( Airlife, 1993), p. 30. See also the sumptuous Churchill: A Biography by Roy Jenkins (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001), Chapters 34 and 35.

3 A former MI6 chief, who shall remain nameless.

4 These cases caused more than a minor ripple, despite the contrary claims of Canadian James Cox in recounting the Delisle treachery with the State Committee for Security. James Cox, “Canada and the FVEYs Intelligence Community,” Strategic Studies Working Paper, December 2012.

5 James Igoe Walsh, The International Politics of Intelligence Sharing (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010), Chapter 1.

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Bowman H. Miller

Bowman H. Miller teaches at the National Intelligence University, following 36 years in intelligence in the U.S. Air Force and the Department of State, where he headed the Office of Analysis for Europe (INR). He received his Ph.D. from Georgetown University. The author can be contacted at [email protected].

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