Название: Enemies Within: Communists, the Cambridge Spies and the Making of Modern Britain
Автор: Richard Davenport-Hines
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Биографии и Мемуары
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With love for † Rory Benet Allan
With gratitude to the Warden and Fellows of All Souls
The lie is a European power.
FERDINAND LASSALLE
Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
CHARLES DARWIN
No great spy has been a short-term man.
SIR JOHN MASTERMAN
Men are classed less by achievement than by failure to achieve the impossible.
SIR ROBERT VANSITTART
Men go in herds: but every woman counts.
BLANCHE WARRE-CORNISH
Contents
Author’s Note
Glossary
Illustration Credits
PART ONE: Rules of the Game
Chapter 1: The Moscow Apparatus
Soviet espionage in foreign missions
The political culture of everlasting distrust
Chapter 2: The Intelligence Division
Chapter 3: The Whitehall Frame of Mind
Office cultures and manly trust
Chapter 4: The Vigilance Detectives
The uprising of the Metropolitan Police