By PHILIP DAVIES

Philip H. J. Davies is one in every of more and more British educational students of intelligence, however the purely educational to technique the topic by way of political technological know-how instead of historical past. He wrote his PhD on the collage of examining at the subject 'Organisational improvement of Britain's mystery Intelligence provider 1909-1979', and has released greatly on intelligence and defence matters. After finishing his PhD he taught for a yr and a part at the collage of London exterior measure programme in Singapore prior to returning to the united kingdom to lecture on the collage of examining for 2 years. He used to be previously affiliate Professor of foreign and safeguard experiences on the college of Malaya in Malaysia the place he not just carried out his learn yet supplied a number education and consultancy prone to the Malaysian intelligence and international prone. he's now established at Brunel collage, united kingdom

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408, 488–90. Oddly enough, Andrew does not perform a similar stocktaking for either the Security Service or GCHQ. 21. B. D. Foot (eds), Oxford Companion to the Second World War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994), p. 745. Cecil, who held the senior position of PA/CSS during the war was well equipped to provide an accurate description, but the chart attempted to extend itself forward in time over the six-year duration of the war, as well as laterally across the division of labour and vertically up the chain of command.

20 INTRODUCTION 18. Harry Gelber, review of Richelson and Ball’s Ties That Bind, Intelligence and National Security, 2, 1 (January 1987), p. 198. 19. See, variously, the preface to West’s GCHQ: The Wireless War 1900–1986 (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1986), charts provided in MI6: British Secret Intelligence Operations 1909–1945 (London: Grafton, 1988) pp. 19–23 followed in due course by a less graphical organization summary for 1946 in his The Friends: British Post-War Secret Intelligence Operations (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988), p.

201–2. 52. , p. 202. 53. , p. 202 infra. 54. , p. 203. 55. , p. 203 infra. 56. , p. 203 and passim. 57. J. Davies, ‘Organizational Politics and the Development of Britain’s Intelligence Producer/Consumer Interface’, pp. 113–32. 58. , and for greater detail ‘From Amateurs to Professionals: GC & CS and Institution-Building in SIGINT’ in Michael Smith and Ralph Erskine (eds), Action This Day (London: Transworld, 2001), pp. 386–402. 24 INTRODUCTION 59. H. E. G. C. Knight, British Intelligence in the Second World War: Its Influence on Strategy and Operations, vol.

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