Imperial Spies Invade Russia - The British Intelligence Interventions, 1918

This first history of British Imperial interventions in widely distant geographic areas in north and south Russia at the end of World War I describes the invention of a new kind of intelligence system. This careful study based on an extensive use of documents provides interesting lessons for dealing with Russia today at a similar turning point. Historians, Russian specialists, intelligence professionals, and others will find this a fascinating account of dirty deeds and a helpful analysis of intelligence planning and coordination.

This history shows how intelligence was used as a substitute for open diplomacy and how the interventions were turned to economic advantage for both Britain and Canada. The system of intelligence is analyzed in terms of planning, tactics, communications, trade, transport, field operations and networks and coordination. Each of the interventions in the north and south are described in detail. Notes and a lengthy bibliography also offer important evidence of the remarkable events that took place.

List of contents

Preface
The Empire and the Interventions
Intelligence Formation: DMI, MI 2, MIO, MO 5, MIR
The Eastern Committee and the Consolidation of Civilian Intelligence Oversight
Convenient Fictions: Intervention and the Senior Dominion
The Poole Mission: Trade and Intelligence Linkages in North Russia
Into the North
Intelligence-Operations in the South, 1917-1918
The Third Option: Intelligence-Operations and Imperial Hegemony
Dunsterforce: The Underestimated Case in Point, January-June 1918
Agents in the Field and Men on the Spot
Endings and Beginnings
Bibliography

About the author

A.J. PLOTKE is a British Empire historian who is also a student of the evolution of modern intelligence work and its connection to political behavior in the United Kingdom and the Dominions.

Product details

• Authors: A. J. Plotke, A.J. Plotke
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.03.1993
• EAN: 9780313286117
• ISBN: 978-0-313-28611-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Weight: 680 g
• Series: Contributions in Military Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, military history, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, International Relations, Colonialism & imperialism, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Colonialism and imperialism, Military intelligence, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), HISTORY / Military / Intelligence & Espionage, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era