Counterintelligence? Flashcards
1
Q
The formation of a new counterespionage department, ‘D Branch’
P. 150
A
As (Wright, 1987) notes, upon Dick Whites ascendancy to Director General in 1953, he formed a new counterespionage dpt., D branch. This was due to MI5’s relative decline in c.esp ability since it’s famed ‘Double Cross’ operation in WW2 against German intelligence, having receded in relativity to a ‘…more skilled and more numerous Russian Intelligence Service.’
2
Q
Russian counterintelligence tactics in the mid 1950s.
A
(Wright, 1987, p. 151-2)
‘The truth was that Russians used double agent cases to play with MI5, identify our case officers, disperse our effort, and decoy us from there their real operations.’
