British Intelligence and Hitler's Empire in the Soviet Union, 1941-1945

Dr. Ben Wheatley (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2018
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-09681-3 (ISBN)

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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.

Ben Wheatley is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of History at the University of East Anglia, UK.

Introduction
Prologue: 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
1. SIS, SOE and the NKVD
PART II: The Central Role of British Open Source Intelligence in the Ostland
2. The Importance of the Foreign Press to British Intelligence 1938 - 1941
3. The Stockholm Press Reading Bureau
4. The Foreign Research and Press Service Baltic States Section 1941 - 1942
5. The Foreign Office Research Department Baltic States Section 1943 – 1944
PART III: Case Studies of the FRPS/FORD Baltic States Section’s Intelligence
Introduction to the Case Studies
6. Economic Conditions in the Ostland
7. German Population Policy in the Ostland
Part IV: Post-hostilities Planning
8. The Foreign Office Research Department and Post-hostilities Planning
Conclusion
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	22.09.2018
Zusatzinfo	16 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	386 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-350-09681-4 / 1350096814
ISBN-13	978-1-350-09681-3 / 9781350096813
Zustand	Neuware