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British Security Coordination: The Secret History of British Intelligence in the Americas, 1940-1945

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Hardcover: quarter cloth over hardback boards, 536 pp, indexed.

This book reveals "that Britain was engaged in a far broader -- and more cynical -- attempt to manipulate the United States in the two years before Pearl Harbor than had been previously been revealed."

This was "a masterful covert-action program -- arguably the most effective in history. And by drawing the United States out of isolationism and into the web of British secret operations in a global war, it changed America forever..."

"The study is a virtual textbook on the art of manipulation. And it portrays the America of 1940 and 1941 as a society almost laughably easy to manipulate." "Indeed, the BSC history is almost a menu for the covert-action techniques that have been used ever since by the CIA."

- David Ignatius, Washington Post

Some of the techniques put into place by William Stephenson (the Stephenson of A Man Called Intrepid) while happily ensconced in Rockefeller Center included exposing Axis spies, planting propaganda in US news outlets, slipping beautiful female agents into the Vichy and Italian embassies in Washington, infiltrating American labor unions, harassing political enemies in Congress, and feeding false rumors to American columnists.

This the first time this information, compiled by three of Stephenson's deputies in 1945, has ever been released to the public.

Gave me the info I needed about an aunt's secret intelligence activities in USA during WW2. But NOT an easy read; see Kirkus Associates review.

This book was introduced by Nigel West and it was done after World War II by Stephenson. It is a government report. The book is in chronilogical order, meaning it is in order the way things happened. It starts when a Canadien arrives in New York city and.....