- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
-
1 Defending the realm: MI5 in the making -
2 Liddell in Wonderland: MI5 and the Prussian Secret Police -
3 The undesirables: political refugees from Germany and Austria after January 1933 -
4 The mysterious case of Dora Fabian -
5 Nazi spies and the ‘Auslandsorganisation’ -
6 No more peace: Otto Lehmann-Russbueldt and German rearmament -
7 Flying and spying: Claud W. Sykes, MI5 and the ‘Primrose League’ -
8 ‘The Red Menace’: keeping watch on the Communists 1933–39 -
9 ‘Peace for our time’ -
10 ‘A state of confusion which at times amounted almost to chaos’: MI5 1939–41 -
11 The internment of ‘enemy aliens’ -
12 ‘The largest Communist sideshow in London’: the Free German League of Culture -
13 The Austrian Centre – and ‘the great Eva’ -
14 ‘About the most dangerous of all these organisations’: The Czech Refugee Trust Fund -
15 Whispers and lies: the informers -
16 Friends in need: British supporters of the refugees -
17 Red alert: keeping watch on the Communists -
18 ‘Tube Alloys’: the British atomic bomb project -
19 The spy who was caught: the case of Klaus Fuchs -
20 The spy who got away: the case of Engelbert Broda -
21 Parting company - Conclusion
- A note on sources
- Select bibliography
- Index
Conclusion
Conclusion
- Chapter:
- (p.232) Conclusion
- Source:
- A matter of intelligence
- Author(s):
Charmian Brinson
Richard Dove
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
The conclusion draws together the main questions which have emerged throughout the book. Firstly: why, in a period leading up to a war against Fascism and during the war itself, did MI5 remain so intensely concerned with the surveillance of Communists. Moreover, why did this surveillance continue and even intensify after the Soviet Union had entered the war in June 1941? Secondly, the chapter attempts to evaluate how successful, or indeed, how necessary, MI5's surveillance of German and Austrian anti-Nazi refugees actually was. If the first two questions are historical, the third brings us back to the present: why has this particular surveillance operation, undoubtedly a costly one in terms of manpower and effort, not become part of the official history of MI5, failing to find a mention, for example, in Christopher Andrew's official centenary study, The Defence of the Realm?
Keywords: Communists, Soviet Union, Anti-Nazi refugees, Surveillance, Christopher Andrew
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
-
1 Defending the realm: MI5 in the making -
2 Liddell in Wonderland: MI5 and the Prussian Secret Police -
3 The undesirables: political refugees from Germany and Austria after January 1933 -
4 The mysterious case of Dora Fabian -
5 Nazi spies and the ‘Auslandsorganisation’ -
6 No more peace: Otto Lehmann-Russbueldt and German rearmament -
7 Flying and spying: Claud W. Sykes, MI5 and the ‘Primrose League’ -
8 ‘The Red Menace’: keeping watch on the Communists 1933–39 -
9 ‘Peace for our time’ -
10 ‘A state of confusion which at times amounted almost to chaos’: MI5 1939–41 -
11 The internment of ‘enemy aliens’ -
12 ‘The largest Communist sideshow in London’: the Free German League of Culture -
13 The Austrian Centre – and ‘the great Eva’ -
14 ‘About the most dangerous of all these organisations’: The Czech Refugee Trust Fund -
15 Whispers and lies: the informers -
16 Friends in need: British supporters of the refugees -
17 Red alert: keeping watch on the Communists -
18 ‘Tube Alloys’: the British atomic bomb project -
19 The spy who was caught: the case of Klaus Fuchs -
20 The spy who got away: the case of Engelbert Broda -
21 Parting company - Conclusion
- A note on sources
- Select bibliography
- Index
