Triplex

"Triplex" reveals more clearly than ever before the precise nature and extent of the damage done to the much-vaunted British intelligence establishment during World War II by the notorious 'Cambridge Five' spy ring - Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross. The code word "Triplex" refers to an exceptionally sensitive intelligence source, one of the most closely guarded secrets of the war, which appears nowhere in any of the British government's official histories. "Triplex" was material extracted illicitly from the diplomatic pouches of neutral missions in wartime London. MI5, the British Security Service, entrusted the job of overseeing the highly secret assignment to Anthony Blunt, who was already working for the NKVD, Stalin's intelligence service. The rest is history, documented here for the first time in rich detail.

ISBN 0300123477   Pages 384 ISBN13 9780300123470 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Yale University Press   Weight (grammes) 676 Imprint Yale University Press   Published in New Haven Format Hardback   Height (mm) 229 Publication date 02 Oct 2009   Width (mm) 152 Library of Congress 2009009949   Spine width (mm) 27 DEWEY 327.12470410922   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC22

		Note on the Translation
		List of Abbreviations
Pt. I		Anthony Blunt's MI[subscript 5] Documents		5
1		The Swedish Naval Attache		5
2		Japanese Suspects, October 1941		9
3		Neutral Attaches in London, September 1943		11
4		Diplomatic Missions in London		14
5		MI[subscript 5]'s History		26
Pt. II		Kim Philby's SIS Documents		104
6		Colonel Vivian's Briefing, 1943		104
7		ISOS, March 1943		108
8		Breaking Soviet Ciphers		111
9		SIS Sources for Strategic Appreciations		111
10		C's Directive, September 1944		113
11		Report from Philby, December 1944		114
12		Philby's Memo to C, November 1944		115
13		Section IX Personnel		116
14		Commander Dunderdale's SLC, July 1945		118
15		Memo on Penetrating Russia		120
16		Colonel Vivian's Reply to the Memo		129
17		SIS Symbols, 23 July 1947		131
18		SIS Internal Country Codes Used Up to the Second Half of 1946		132
19		Report on SIS Reorganisation,July 1945		134
20		Colonel Vivian's Memo, September 1944		138
21		The XK Problem in SIS, 6 September 1944		141
22		Report on the Mediterranean Inspection, August 1944		145
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""TRIPLEX" is the first complete report on the Cambridge Five that gives the reader the opportunity to judge the extent of the damage done to the British service concerned. It will be greeted with enthusiasm by specialists in intelligence history."--David Murphy, former CIA Berlin chief, former chief of Soviet operations at CIA headquarters in the United States, and author of "What Stalin Knew"--David Murphy

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