Introduction: Covert Action
Part I - Cold War
1: False Starts: From Counter Attack to Liberation
2: Operation Valuable: Defending Greece; Detaching Albania
3: Pinpricks: The Early Cold War
4: A Long Game: Exploiting Rifts Behind the Iron Curtain
Part II - End of Empire
5: Operations Boot: Regime Change in Iran
6: Expansion: Covert Action Before Suez
7: Interdependence: Covert Action After Suez
8: Decolonisation and Drift: The Battle for Influence after
Empire
9: Militarisation: Secret Wars in Yemen and Indonesia
Part III - Age of Illusions
10: Operation Storm and Beyond: From Latin America to Oman
11: Troubles: Covert Action in Northern Ireland
12: Containment: The Second Cold War
13: Transition: The New Agenda
14: Counter-Terrorism: Disrupting Threats; Managing Risk
Conclusion: The British Way
Bibliography
Index
Dr Rory Cormac is an Associate Professor of International Relations
at the University of Nottingham. A Fellow of the Royal Historical
Society and a leading expert among a new generation of intelligence
historians, he specialises in British covert operations and the
secret pursuit of foreign policy. He has published widely on
intelligence and security issues and regularly appears on radio and
television. He is the co-author of The Black Door: Spies,
Secret
Intelligence and British Prime Ministers and featured on Channel
4's Spying on the Royals.
Revelatory and meticulously researched. Rory Cormac moves in the
forensic footsteps of Peter Hennessy, patiently sleuthing his way
through forgotten archives and private papers, finding disturbing
documents that Whitehall civil servants hoped had long been buried.
Half a century after we began to learn about SOE and Bletchley
Park, there are still surprises.
*Richard Aldrich, The Times Literary Supplement*
A welcome and most timely book [which] provides plenty of evidence
to show why it is time [that policy makers and spy chiefs] absence
of accountability and freedom to break the law with impunity must
end.
*Richard Norton-Taylor, Literary Review*
A work of outstanding scholarly originality.
*Richard Davenport-Hines, Times Literary Supplement*
In 'Disrupt and Deny', Rory Cormac takes readers into the hidden
world of British foreign intelligence activity. With extraordinary
detail and easily accessible prose, Cormac's work sets a standard
for espionage history ... To be sure, this is a very serious book
worthy of serious readers. But offering various anecdotes amid the
history, the book sometimes reads as much as a spy thriller. It
will have broad appeal.
*Tom Rogan, Washington Examiner*
Disrupt and Deny is a bold study of the postwar history of British
covert action [and] Cormac attacks the subject with impressive
energy and industry. The result is an engrossing journey through
the history of a stubbornly opaque area of the secret world.
*Huw Dylan, BBC History Magazine*
A ground-breaking book ... It reads like a thriller and shines
valuable light on how Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, M16,
has spread misinformation designed to divide and discredit targets
from the Middle East to Eastern Europe.
*Francis Ghiles, ES Global*
This excellent book relies on a high amount of archival material
and represents the first detailed history of British covert
action.
*Lucy Trenta, Intelligence and National Security*
An enthralling, well-written and authoritative history of Britain's
role in covert operations from the Second World War to the present
day.
*Geraint Hughes, International Affairs*
An important book about an important subject Disrupt and Deny
should be read by anyone, citizens, scholars or those in government
interested in Britain's place in the world, past and present.
*Calder Walton, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
University*
A pioneering and highly readable book uncovering how Britain
secretly used spies and special forces to stem national
decline.
*Professor Michael Goodman, King's College, London*
Rory Cormac is one of the brightest rising stars in the expanding
firmament of Intelligence Studies. Here he takes on one of the most
difficult of research endeavors: probing the ins-and-outs of covert
action as practiced by the British. He comes up with a balanced
assessment written in lovely prose that is a pleasure to read. This
book is a valuable dissection of an important topic that few have
had the audacity to address.
*Loch K. Johnson, Regents Professor of International Affairs,
University of Georgia*
This is a ground-breaking book--the first history of British covert
action ever published, from wartime SOE to new and unacknowledged
adventures in Syria."
*Richard J. Aldrich, University of Warwick and author of GCHQ:The
Uncensored Story of Britain's Most Secret Intelligence Agency*
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