Mask

This book details MI5's interception and exploitation of secret Comintern wireless traffic, which revealed the first evidence of widescale Soviet espionage in Britain.

Nigel West is a military historian specialising in security and intelligence topics. He lectures at the Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies in Washington DC and is the European editor of the World Intelligence Review. In 1989 he was elected 'the Experts' Expert' by the Observer and in 2003 he was the recipient of the US Association of Former Intelligence Officers' Lifetime Literature Achievement Award.

Glossary of MASK Terminology. Introduction 1. The Red Menace 2. The Personalities 3. The Great Game 4. The MASK Traffic 5. Krivitsky's Defection 6. Bob Stewart 7. Dave Springhall 8. The Robinson Papers. Conclusion