From World War to Cold War: the records of the FO Permanent Under-Secretary’s Department, 1939-51

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Contents Introduction to PUSD records

1

Come dance with me, Argentina: the secret whirl of public diplomacy in 1910

5

A gift fit for a king? The accession of HM King George V, 1910

11

Gelignite in the basement: Scandinavian sabotage operations in 1940

15

Pierre Cot and the British Secret Services 1940-41

21

Mission Impossible: Sir Louis Spears in the Levant, 1942

29

The Secret Intelligence Service and the origins of the Anglo-American intelligence relationship, 1940-41

35

Diplomats, secret intelligence and sabotage: the Straits of Gibraltar and Operation Blake, 1941-43

41

The Man Who Was: the ‘Clamorgan’ affair and the origins of Operation Mincemeat

49

Wartime experience and the future of the Secret Services, 1940-51

57

Adjusting to ‘Indianisation’: British intelligence in independent India and Burma, 1946-48

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Escape from Eastern Europe, 1947-48

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The CORBY case: the defection of Igor Gouzenko, September 1945

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