Author: WEST, NIGEL.
Title: The Circus, MI5 Operations 1945-1972.
Description: First US Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. 196; 6 pages of b/w. photographic illustrations, MI5 organization chart, table of MI5 internal structure, index, bound in original quarter red cloth with black papered boards, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, very good copy. A copy of the manuscript of this book was stolen by a senior MI5 officer in an attempt to stop it being published. On October 12, 1982, the High Court of Justice of Great Britain issued an injunction against the publication of the book or any part of it. As is the case of Soviet moles high up in British government - Burgess, Maclean, Philby, Blunt - the barn door was closed too late. The American publisher had already hand carried a copy of the manuscript from London to New York a month earlier.
Keywords: gmil general military MI5 secret service history
Title: The Circus, MI5 Operations 1945-1972.
Description: First US Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. 196; 6 pages of b/w. photographic illustrations, MI5 organization chart, table of MI5 internal structure, index, bound in original quarter red cloth with black papered boards, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, very good copy. A copy of the manuscript of this book was stolen by a senior MI5 officer in an attempt to stop it being published. On October 12, 1982, the High Court of Justice of Great Britain issued an injunction against the publication of the book or any part of it. As is the case of Soviet moles high up in British government - Burgess, Maclean, Philby, Blunt - the barn door was closed too late. The American publisher had already hand carried a copy of the manuscript from London to New York a month earlier.
Keywords: gmil general military MI5 secret service history
Price: AUD 40.00 = appr. US$ 27.67 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 117096
- Book number: 117096