A MATTER OF INTELLIGENCE: MI5 AND THE SURVEILLANCE OF ANTI-NAZI REFUGEES, 1933–50: Charmian Brinson and Richard Dove

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Title Page

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Contents

Acknowledgements

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, MI5 and the ‘Primrose League’

8. ‘The Red Menace’: keeping watch on the Communists 1933–39

9. ‘Peace for our time’

Part II: Secrets, lies and misinterpretations

10. ‘A state of confusion which at times 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