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Download or read book The Twilight of the British Empire written by Chikara Hashimoto and published by Intelligence, Surveillance and Secret Warfare. This book was released on 2019-05-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncovers and examines Britain's counter-subversive policies and security measures implemented in the post-war Middle East, Middle Eastern affairs make headlines. Not only are they politically volatile, but the cultural and religious contexts complicate Western involvement in the region. This book reveals secret British intelligence liaisons with Middle Eastern regimes during the early Cold War. It shows how Britain tried to influence regional intelligence and security services and shape their approach to countering communist subversion. Analysing newly declassified documents alongside extensive archival research and historiography, the book pieces together the intelligence culture build by the British Empire in the Middle East in the post-war era.