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C Cammo Member San Diego Joined: May 18, 2006 Posts: 2041	C Cammo Posted posted on Sat, Jul 7, 2012 11:30 AM PART 2 Real Life Spies For a look at pre-WW2 Britain’s spy culture, here’s an interesting book review by Hayden Peake (real name?) posted on the CIA’s incredibly interesting and bizarrely open-to-anyone website: https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol.-54-no.-4/six-a-history-of-britain2019s-secret-intelligence.html The first book to seriously blow the lid off the misinformation, cobweb covered top secret folders and outright lies of the participating parties of “Allied” WW2 spying was the seminal and still exciting A Man Called Intrepid. It’s heatedly debated how accurate the events author William Stevenson recounts were, but he covers so much territory in bringing to light the entirely different war that was fought in candle lit bedrooms, bright university research labs and on pitch-black nights in France that you have to spot him a few points in even trying to document such a huge subject. The fact that it literally re-writes history books by exposing London & Washington’s “facts” about the major battles of WW2 as propaganda or outright deception makes more than a few people nervous to this day. It also makes me wonder about the rest of history, as “written by the winners”...

PART 2
Real Life Spies

For a look at pre-WW2 Britain’s spy culture, here’s an interesting book review by Hayden Peake (real name?) posted on the CIA’s incredibly interesting and bizarrely open-to-anyone website:

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol.-54-no.-4/six-a-history-of-britain2019s-secret-intelligence.html

The first book to seriously blow the lid off the misinformation, cobweb covered top secret folders and outright lies of the participating parties of “Allied” WW2 spying was the seminal and still exciting A Man Called Intrepid. It’s heatedly debated how accurate the events author William Stevenson recounts were, but he covers so much territory in bringing to light the entirely different war that was fought in candle lit bedrooms, bright university research labs and on pitch-black nights in France that you have to spot him a few points in even trying to document such a huge subject. The fact that it literally re-writes history books by exposing London & Washington’s “facts” about the major battles of WW2 as propaganda or outright deception makes more than a few people nervous to this day.

It also makes me wonder about the rest of history, as “written by the winners”...

Post #643117 by Cammo on Sat, Jul 7, 2012 11:30 AM