BIBLIOGRAPHY• 611With the certainty, following the publication in 1968 of Philby’sMy
Silent War, that the author had betrayed to the Soviets every SIS secret
with which he had been entrusted, and the reluctant consent given in
1972 to Sir John Masterman to let Yale University Press print an
abridged version ofThe Double Cross System in the War of 1939–1945,
the floodgates opened, prompting the double agents Dusko Popov (tri-
cycle), Juan Pujol (garbo), and John Moe (mutt) to pen their mem-
oirs. The revisionists, confident that the true history of World War II
was hidden in classified archives, embarked on a massive historical ex-
ercise that continues to this day, but the three fundamental groups of
books still apply: the firsthand expose ́s, the biographies and case stud-
ies, and finally the more academic, analytical histories.
To choose six authors representative of the postwar era, the obvious
choices would be Peter Wright and Joan Miller from MI5, Anthony
Cavendish and George Blake from SIS, Gordon Welchman and Peter
Calvocoressi from GCHQ. As for the historians, Whitehall preferred to
commission Professor Harry Hinsley to head a Cabinet Office–
approved team to sift through the intercepts and classified material to
provide a fuller picture of the intelligence dimension to World War II.
In the modern era, with wider acknowledgment of the vital role
played by intelligence in the formulation of policy and the prosecution
of wars, the same three groups of books remain relevant: the rather per-
sonal disclosures made by the practitioners, such as Oleg Gordievsky,
Richard Tomlinson, and Stella Rimington; the wider work of Christo-
pher Andrew, Richard Aldrich, and Peter Hennessy; and the more con-
centrated studies of specialist journalists, among them Michael Smith,
Tom Bower, Barrie Penrose, Chapman Pincher, David Leigh, and Ste-
phen Dorril.
The end of the Cold War and the defeat of the Provisional IRA
brought the new challenges of global terrorism and another plethora of
books, although as yet the criteria of the three distinct groups remain
unfulfilled because of the tightening of the ban, reinforced by legisla-
tion following the restrictions confirmed in the House of Lords ruling
on the lengthySpyCatcherlitigation, on personal accounts written by
either serving British intelligence personnel or retirees. Thus the field
has been left to the journalists and academics, although doubtless the
balance will be redressed in due course.
Another of the paradoxes surrounding the plentiful literature on the