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Contents
Acknowledgements
My thanks are due to the many intelligence professionals who made this book possible. I owe particular gratitude to those who assisted my research, among them Sir Colin McColl, Anthony Cavendish, Brian Crozier, Jeff Morley, and the late Christopher Phillpotts, Charles Seymour, Harford Hyde, Cleveland Cram, Arthur Martin, Nicholas Elliott, Andrew King, Fergie Dempster and others who cannot be named.
Glossary and Abbreviations
AIOC | Anglo-Iranian Oil Company |
ANA | Arab News Agency |
ASIO | Australian Security Intelligence Organisation |
BND | Federal German Intelligence Service |
BOSS | South African Bureau of State Security |
CIA | Central Intelligence Agency |
CIFE | Combined Intelligence Far East |
CIO | Rhodesian Central Intelligence Organisation |
CPGB | Communist Party of Great Britain |
CX | Secret intelligence |
DCI | Director of Central Intelligence |
D-G | Director-General |
DGSE | French intelligence service |
DIA | Defense Intelligence Agency |
DMI | Director of Military Intelligence |
DNI | Director of Naval Intelligence |
DST | French security service |
FBI | US Federal Bureau of Investigation |
FCD | KGB First Chief Directorate |
FOA | Foreign Office Adviser |
FSB | Russian Federation security service |
GC&CS | Government Code and Cypher School |
GCHQ | Government Communications Headquarters |
GRU | Soviet Military Intelligence Service |
IAEA | International Atomic Energy Authority |
IONEC | Intelligence Officers New Entry Course |
IRA | Irish Republican Army |
IRD | Information Research Department |
ISC | Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee |
ISG | Iraq Survey Group |
JIC | Joint Intelligence Committee |
KPD | German Communist Party |
KGB | Soviet Intelligence Service |
MECAS | Middle East Centre for Arabic Studies |
MI1c | Military Intelligence cover designation for SIS (q.v.) |
MI5 | British Security Service |
MI6 | British Secret Intelligence Service |
NID | Naval Intelligence Division |
NKVD | Soviet Intelligence Service |
NSA | US National Security Agency |
OGPU | Soviet Intelligence Service |
OSS | Office of Strategic Services |
PA/CSS | Personal Assistant to the Chief |
PCO | Passport Control Officer |
PET | Danish security police |
PIIC | Public Interest Immunity Certificate |
PIRA | Provisional Irish Republican Army |
PLO | Palestine Liberation Organisation |
PNG | Persona non grata |
PUS | Permanent Under-Secretary |