![]() In this compelling history, which is subtitled "Roald Dahl and the British spy ring in wartime Washington", Jennet Conant details the extraordinarily wide-ranging nature of London's efforts to keep tabs on and to manipulate the American political scene. If the isolationist faction of Americans had triumphed and kept their country out of the war in Europe, Britain's survival would have been a much chancier affair. But governments need to know what their allies, or potential allies, are up to and a huge amount of intelligence activity is devoted to this end, although, of course, everyone pretends it isn't.Īmong the more comprehensive efforts to find out what one's international friends were thinking, and to influence that thinking, came from Britain in World War II when the attitude of the United States was a matter of national life and death. The thought of allies' spies working within the United States seems, from the tone of the preface of this book, to provoke surprised indignation. ![]() But Americans tend to think of espionage as being mainly targeted towards national enemies or potential foes. ![]() Photo / Suppliedįor New Zealanders, where the memory of the Rainbow Warrior remains charged with emotion, the idea of covert operations directed against "friendly" nations is familiar. ![]()
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