Details the surveillance by the British security service MI5 of anti-Nazi refugees who came to Britain fleeing political persecution in Germany and Austria
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
Part I: I Spy 1933-39
1. Defending the realm: MI5 in the making
2. Liddell in wonderland: MI5 and the Prussian secret police
3. The undesirables: political refugees from Germany and Austria after January 1933
4. The mysterious case of Dora Fabian
5. Nazi spies and the 'Auslandsorganisation'
6. No more peace: Otto Lehmann-Russbueldt and German rearmament
7. Flying and spying: Claud W. Sykes, Karl Otten and the 'Primrose League'
8. The 'Red Menace'
9. 'Peace for our time'
Part II: Secrets, lies and misinterpretations
10. 'A state of confusion which amounted almost to chaos': MI5 1939-41
11. The internment of 'enemy aliens'
12. 'The largest communist sideshow in London': the Free German League of Culture
13. The Austrian Centre - and 'the great Eva'
14. 'About the most dangerous of all these organisations': the Czech Refugee Trust Fund
15. Whispers and lies: the informers
16. Friends in need: British supporters of the refugees
Part III: Preparing for the Cold War
17. Red alert: keeping watch on the communists
18. Tube alloys: the British atomic bomb project
19. The spy who was caught: the case of Klaus Fuchs
20. The spy who got away: the case of Engelbert Broda
21. Parting company
Conclusion
A note on sources
Select Bibliography
Index
