Behind the enigma : the authorised history of GCHQ, Britain's secret cyber-intelligence agency / John Ferris.
By: Ferris, John Robert [author.]
Publisher: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020Description: xiii, 823 pages, [12] pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits, photographsContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781526605467Subject(s): Great Britain. Government Communications Headquarters -- History | Intelligence service -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Espionage, British -- HistoryDDC classification: 355.3432 | Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 355.3432 FER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 019868 |
The origins of modern British Sigint, 1844-1914 -- Britain and the birth of signals intelligence, 1914-18 -- Whitehall's black chamber : British cryptology and the Government Code & Cypher School, 1919-39 -- Cryptanalysis and British foreign policy, 1919-39 -- Bletchley -- Ultra and the Second World War, 1939-45 -- Cheltenham : GCHQ, Britain and Whitehall, 1945-92 -- UKUSA and the international politics of Sigint, 1941-92 -- 'We want to be Cheltonians': the department -- Just who are these guys, anyway? A historical-sociological analysis of GCHQ, 1939-89 -- Intercept to end product : the collection, processing and dissemination of Sigint, 1945-92 -- GCHQ vs the main enemy : signals intelligence and the cold war, 1945-92 -- Comint and the end of empire, 1945-82 : Palestine, Konfrontasi and the Falkland Islands -- Secrecy, translucency and oversight, 1830-2019 -- GCHQ and the second age of Sigint, 1990-2020.