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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"British Intelligence"”.
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British Intelligence Services in Greece, 1940 - 1947
… and Greece. Firstly, it examines the impact of British Intelligence on the Greek war effort, resistance to Axis occupation, and the period after liberation, by examining the changing role of intelligence in each period. During the early part of the war, the Intelligence Services, and in …
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British Intelligence Operations During the Anglo-Irish War
This study examines the performance of the British authorities’ intelligence operations against those of the Irish Republican Army during the years 1919-1921. It is a reassessment of previous perceptions on the British as well as an examination of the British administration and its policies that …
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British intelligence and American neutrality during the First World War
This PhD examines the role of British intelligence in Anglo-American relations during the period of American neutrality in the First \Vorld \Var. Unbeknownst to the Americans, British intelligence began to intercept and decrypt virtually all American diplomatic telegrams between Washington and U.S. …
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British intelligence and threats to national security, c.1941-1951
This dissertation studies the way that Britain's intelligence services changed priorities from the Second World War to the early Cold War. It stretches from the point when the Soviet Union entered the Second World War as Britain's ally in 1941, to the moment a decade later in 1951, when the Cold …
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British Foreign Policy: An Examination of the Relationship between British Intelligence, Democratic Peace Theory, and International Law through the Lens of Ethnic Stratification & Mass Atrocity in Southeast Asia 1965-1990
… Territories (AATs) which posed a threat to British interests. This threat was related to increased communist activity which national security planners perceived could destabilise former British colonies. Former colonies have tended to maintain close relations with the imperial power that …
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Plateaus of freedom : nationality, culture and state security in Canada, 1927-1957
… from wartime security concerns. Idiosyncratic British Intelligence veteran Tracy Philipps embarrasses nationalist historiography by connecting Canada's early multiculturalism policies to an anglomorphic censorship-propaganda-intelligence complex. During the National Film Board's 'red scare' …
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Technologies of Intelligence and Their Relation to National Security Policy: A Case Study of the U.S. and the V-2 Rocket
While government intelligence"knowledge to support policy decision making"is often characterized as an art or science, this dissertation suggests it is more akin to what Science and Technology Studies call a "technological system" or a" sociotechnical ensemble". Such a policy support tool is a …
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The Origins of British-American Cooperation in Foreign Affairs 1897-1920
… relationship, and at the nascent trans-Atlantic intelligence networks that helped tie them together. Their efforts decisively influenced how American internationalism and British imperialism were synthesized during the Paris Peace Conference and the formation of the League of Nations. The first …
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Living in the shadow: Britain and the USSR’s nuclear weapon delivery systems 1949-62
This thesis examines British intelligence collection efforts against the Soviet Union’s nuclear bombers and long-range nuclear ballistic missiles during the period 1949 until 1962. It also analyses the serious intelligence collection problems that were encountered concerning this topic and how …
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Britain's exploitation of Occupied Germany for scientific and technical intelligence on the Soviet Union
… the beginning of the Cold War, the gathering of intelligence on the Soviet Union's current and future military capability seemed a near-impossibility. Soviet high-level communications were secure against decryption. Agent networks in the USSR were very difficult to establish and of uncertain …