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This is the first detailed study of Britain''s open source intelligence (OSINT) operations during the Second World War, showing how accurate and influential OSINT could be and ultimately how those who analysed this intelligence would shape British post-war policy towards the Soviet Union.Following the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, the enemy and neutral press covering the German occupation of the Baltic states offered the British government a vital stream of OSINT covering the entire German East. OSINT was the only form of intelligence available to the British from the Nazi-occupied Soviet Union, due to the Foreign Office suspension of all covert intelligence gathering inside the Soviet Union. The risk of jeopardising the fragile Anglo-Soviet alliance was considered too great to continue covert intelligence operations. In this book, Wheatley primarily examines OSINT acquired by the Stockholm Press Reading Bureau (SPRB) in Sweden and analysed and despatched to the British government by the Foreign Research and Press Service (FRPS) Baltic States Section and its successor, the Foreign Office Research Department (FORD).Shedding light on a neglected area of Second World War intelligence and employing useful case studies of the FRPS/FORD Baltic States Section''s Intelligence, B ish Intelligence and Hitler''s Empire in the Soviet Union, 1941-1945 makes a new and important argument which will be of great value to students and scholars of British intelligence history and the Second World War.>

About the author

Dr Ben Wheatley studied Modern European History at the University of East Anglia (doctorate in 2014) and has been an Honorary Research Fellow at the university since 2016. He is a former Teaching Fellow of the Defence Studies Department, King’s College London, teaching at the Joint Services Command and Staff College. Publications include British Intelligence and Hitler’s Empire in the Soviet Union, 1941–1945 (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017).

Product details

• Authors: Ben Wheatley, Ben (University of East Anglia Wheatley, Dr. Ben (University of East Anglia Wheatley
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2017
• EAN: 9781474297226
• ISBN: 978-1-4742-9722-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; European History, HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Intelligence & Espionage, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, British & Irish history, Second World War, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Espionage & secret services, Modern warfare, Espionage and secret services, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater