Contents Introduction to PUSD records
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Come dance with me, Argentina: the secret whirl of public diplomacy in 1910
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A gift fit for a king? The accession of HM King George V, 1910
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Gelignite in the basement: Scandinavian sabotage operations in 1940
15
Pierre Cot and the British Secret Services 1940-41
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Mission Impossible: Sir Louis Spears in the Levant, 1942
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The Secret Intelligence Service and the origins of the Anglo-American intelligence relationship, 1940-41
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Diplomats, secret intelligence and sabotage: the Straits of Gibraltar and Operation Blake, 1941-43
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The Man Who Was: the ‘Clamorgan’ affair and the origins of Operation Mincemeat
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Wartime experience and the future of the Secret Services, 1940-51
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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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