David Caute, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Historical Society, is a quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His recent books include Isaac and Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic; Politics and the Novel during the Cold War; and The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy during the Cold War.
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A gripping history of the Security Service and its covert surveillance on British writers and intellectuals in the twentieth century In the popular imagination, MI5—or the Security Service—is know chiefly as the branch of the British state responsi... SEE MORE