LEADER 03841nam 22005531 450 001 9910159455303321 005 20161209112403.0 010 $a1-4742-9723-4 010 $a1-4742-9724-2 010 $a1-4742-9721-8 024 7 $a10.5040/9781474297240 035 $a(CKB)3710000001018843 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4786452 035 $a(OCoLC)965781434 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09260641 035 $a(UtOrBLW)BP9781474297240BC 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001018843 100 $a20170524d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aBritish intelligence and Hitler's empire in the Soviet Union, 1941-1945 /$fBenjamin William Wheatley 210 1$aLondon :$cBloomsbury Academic,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (271 pages) $cillustrations, maps 225 0 $aSOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan 311 $a1-350-09681-4 311 $a1-4742-9722-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPrologue: British pre-war policy towards the Soviet Union and the Baltic States, 1917-1941 -- Part I. The restricted services, British covert intelligence and subterfuge in the Baltic States -- Part II. The central role of British open source intelligence in the Ostland -- Part III. Case studies of the FRPS/FORD Baltic States Section's intelligence -- Part IV. Post-hostilities planning. 330 $a"This is the first detailed study of Britain's open source intelligence (OSINT) operations during the Second World War, showing how accurate and influential OSINT could be and ultimately how those who analysed this intelligence would shape British post-war policy towards the Soviet Union. Following the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, the enemy and neutral press covering the German occupation of the Baltic states offered the British government a vital stream of OSINT covering the entire German East. OSINT was the only form of intelligence available to the British from the Nazi-occupied Soviet Union, due to the Foreign Office suspension of all covert intelligence gathering inside the Soviet Union. The risk of jeopardising the fragile Anglo-Soviet alliance was considered too great to continue covert intelligence operations. In this book, Wheatley primarily examines OSINT acquired by the Stockholm Press Reading Bureau (SPRB) in Sweden and analysed and despatched to the British government by the Foreign Research and Press Service (FRPS) Baltic States Section and its successor, the Foreign Office Research Department (FORD). Shedding light on a neglected area of Second World War intelligence and employing useful case studies of the FRPS/FORD Baltic States Section's Intelligence, British Intelligence and Hitler's Empire in the Soviet Union, 1941-1945 makes a new and important argument which will be of great value to students and scholars of British intelligence history and the Second World War."--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aEspionage, British$zBaltic States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aEspionage, British$zSoviet Union$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aIntelligence service$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xSecret service$zGreat Britain 606 $2British & Irish history 615 0$aEspionage, British$xHistory 615 0$aEspionage, British$xHistory 615 0$aIntelligence service$xHistory 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xSecret service 676 $a940.54/86410947 700 $aWheatley$b Benjamin William$01208690 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910159455303321 996 $aBritish intelligence and Hitler's empire in the Soviet Union, 1941-1945$92788655 997 $aUNINA