INSIDE THE COVERT WORLD OF HER MAJESTY'S SECRET INTELLIGENCE SERVICE STEPHEN DORRIL "In-depth research for the serious student and entertainment for the well-informed spy buff." — Publishers Weekly(starred) Digitized by the Internet Archive 2014 in https://archive.org/details/mi6insidecovertw00dorr Illlllillll Also by Stephen Dorril The Silent Conspiracy: The Intelligence Services in the 1990s zvith Robin Ramsay Smear!: Wilson and the Secret State with Anthony Summers Honeytrap: The Secret Worlds of Stephen Ward Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service Stephen Dorril A Touchstone Book Published by Simon & Schuster NEW YORK LONDON TORONTO SYDNEY SINGAPORE TOUCHSTONE RockefellerCenter 1230Avenue oftheAmericas New York, NY 10020 Copyright©2000byStephenDorril All rights reserved, including therightofreproduction inwhole orinpartinanyform. 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ISBN 0-7432-0379-8 0-7432-1778-0 (Pbk) CONTENTS List of Acronyms vii Preface xiii PART ONE: FROM HOT TO COLD WAR 1 1 The Second World War 7 2 Reorganisation: Special Operations 18 3 Containment 35 4 'Uncertain Allies' 49 5 The World-View 58 6 Propaganda 71 7 Roll-Back 81 PART TWO: THE FRONT LINE 91 8 Germany and the 3 x 5s 95 9 Austria: The Shooting Gallery 118 10 Rockets, Bombs and Deception 133 PART THREE: THE SOVIET EMPIRE 161 11 Intermarium 165 12 The Promethean League 185 13 Belorussia 215 14 The Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations 223 15 Poland 249 VI CONTENTS 16 The Baltic States 268 PART FOUR: THE BALKANS AND RUSSIA 301 17 Greece and the Creation of the Para-State 305 18 Yugoslavia: TheGoldenPriest, StolenTreasure and theCrusaders 328 19 The Musketeers in Albania 355 20 The NTS and 'Young Russians' 404 21 The British and Scottish Leagues for European Freedom 425 PART FIVE: THE CHANGE 451 22 The European Movement and 'the Battle for Picasso's Mind' 455 23 Rolling Back 'Roll-Back' 483 24 The Technical Fix 518 PART SIX: THE MIDDLE EAST 529 25 'Unbroken Dreams' 533 26 Palestine 543 27 Cyprus 550 28 Iran: 'Unequal Dreams' 558 29 Suez: Assassins and Thuggery 600 30 The Macmillan Doctrine 652 31 The Musketeers in Yemen 677 PART SEVEN: MODERN TIMES 701 32 The Secret Intelligence Service 703 33 The Last of the Colonial Wars 729 34 The Slow Death of the Cold War 746 35 The New Agenda 758 36 On Her Majesty's Secret Service 783 NOTES 801 INDEX 863 ACRONYMS OF LIST ABN Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations ACC Allied Control Commission ACEN Assembly of Captive European Nations AGUE American Committee for a United Europe AIOC Anglo-Iranian Oil Company AIS Anglo-Greek Information Service AK Armia Krajowa - Polish Home Army AKEL Cypriot Communist Party AMG Allied Military Government ANA Arab News Agency ANC African National Congress ASIS Australian Secret Intelligence Service BAOR British Army of the Rhine BCC Belorussian Central Council/British Control Commission BCR Belorussian Central Representation BCSO British Central Scientific Office BFM British Free Movement BK Balli Kombetar - National Front (Albania) BLEF British League for European Freedom BLO British Liaison Officer BMEO British Middle East Office BND Bundesnachrichtendienst BNR Belorussian National Republic BoT Board of Trade BSC British Security Co-ordination BUF British Union of Fascists BW Biological weapons CBDE Chemical Biological Defence Establishment CCF Congress for Cultural Freedom VIII 11ST OF ACRONYMS CFEU Conseil Francais pour TEurope Unie 5 1 J: CI Counter-intelligence CIA Central Intelligence Agency CIB Central Information Bureau CIC Counter-intelligence Corps CIG Central Intelligence Group CIO Czech Intelligence Office/Congress of Industrial Organisations CIOS Combined Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee CO Constitutional Organisation (Greece) COCOM Co-ordinating Committee COI Co-ordinator of Information COSEC Co-ordinating Secretariat of National Union of Students CPA Communist Party of Albania CPGB Communist Party of Great Britain CPI Central Personality Index CR Central Registry CROWCASS Central Registry of War Crimes and Security Suspects CRPO Combined Research and Planning Organisation CRW Counter-revolutionary warfare CSDIC Combined Services Detailed Intelligence Centre CW Chemical weapons DAD Department of the Army Detachment DCIS Directorate of Counter-intelligence and Security DFP Directorate of Forward Plans DIS Defence Intelligence Staff (Norway) DP Displaced Person DSZ Delegation of Armed Forces (Poland) EAM/ELAS National Liberation Front/National Liberation Popular Army (Greece) ECA European Co-operation Administration EDC European Defence Community EDES National Democratic Hellenic League EEC European Economic Community ELD Union of Popular Democracy (Greece) ELEC European League for Economic Co-operation ELINT Electronic intelligence EM European Movement EOKA National Organisation of Cypriot Combatants ERP European Recovery Programme EUF European Union of Federalists EVW European Voluntary Workers EYC European Youth Campaign