The pinprick approach: Whitehall’s top-secret anti-communist committee and the evolution of British covert action strategy

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The pinprick approach: Whitehall’s top-secret anti-communist committee and the evolution of British covert action strategy

This article examines Great Britain’s approach to covert action during the formative years of British Cold War intelligence operations, 1950–1951. Rather than shy away from such activity in the wake of the failure in Albania in the late 1940s, the British increased the number of operations they purs...

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Main Author:	Cormac, Rory
Format:	Article
Published:	MIT Press 2014
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/35185/

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