Full Description
This first history of British Imperial interventions in widely distant geographic areas in north and south Russia at the end of World War I describes the invention of a new kind of intelligence system. This careful study based on an extensive use of documents provides interesting lessons for dealing with Russia today at a similar turning point. Historians, Russian specialists, intelligence professionals, and others will find this a fascinating account of dirty deeds and a helpful analysis of intelligence planning and coordination.
This history shows how intelligence was used as a substitute for open diplomacy and how the interventions were turned to economic advantage for both Britain and Canada. The system of intelligence is analyzed in terms of planning, tactics, communications, trade, transport, field operations and networks and coordination. Each of the interventions in the north and south are described in detail. Notes and a lengthy bibliography also offer important evidence of the remarkable events that took place.
Contents
Preface
The Empire and the Interventions
Intelligence Formation: DMI, MI 2, MIO, MO 5, MIR
The Eastern Committee and the Consolidation of Civilian Intelligence Oversight
Convenient Fictions: Intervention and the Senior Dominion
The Poole Mission: Trade and Intelligence Linkages in North Russia
Into the North
Intelligence-Operations in the South, 1917-1918
The Third Option: Intelligence-Operations and Imperial Hegemony
Dunsterforce: The Underestimated Case in Point, January-June 1918
Agents in the Field and Men on the Spot
Endings and Beginnings
Bibliography
