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Book SynopsisDuring the Second World War and the subsequent Cold War, foreign agents conducted intelligence-gathering, sabotage, and subversive operations inside neutral countries aimed at damaging their opponents'' interests. The essays contained in this collection analyze the risks of espionage operations on neutral soil as well as the dangers such covert activities posed for the governments of neutral states. In striving to avoid involvement in the firing line of the Second World War or the front line of the Cold War, the contributors argue that neutral states developed security policies that focused on protecting their own sovereignty without provoking overt hostility from any of the great powers. This collection describes how the warring parties engaged in competition on neutral territory and analyzes how neutral governments rose to the existential challenge posed by international spies, their own venal officials, and even foreign assassins.
Trade ReviewNeutral Countries as Clandestine Battlegrounds, 1939–1968: Between Two Fires is intelligence history at its best. Combining scholarly rigor with vivid story-telling, this collection provides new insights into the intelligence-gathering, sabotage, and other activities of the belligerents during and after the Second World War. It also casts light on the measures taken by neutral states to preserve their freedom of action—often with surprising success.
-- Patrick Salmon, chief historian at the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Table of ContentsChapter 1: Intelligence in Neutral Washington, 1914-1917 and 1939-1941
Chapter 2: "Under Morphia" from Madrid: Abduction and Anglo-Spanish Relations in 1941
Chapter 3: Making Waves: A German Radio in Neutral Ireland and Naval Operations in 1942
Chapter 4: Safe Harbour? Clandestine British and German Activities in Portugal and its Colonies during the Second World War
Chapter 5: Ambiguous Neutrality and Nazi Intelligence in Spain during the Second World War
Chapter 6: Guardians of the "Whispering Gallery"? Switzerland, Neutrality and the Clandestine War
Chapter 7: Clandestine “Comrades": The Comintern, Tito and the Underground Communist Party of Yugoslavia, 1939-1941
Chapter 8: British Preparations for Clandestine War in Greece and the Balkans, 1939-40
Chapter 9: Ankara: Rabbit-Warren of Spies
Chapter 10: Afghanistan, 1937-1945: From Lynchpin to Backwater
Chapter 11: "Berlin of the East": India and the Politics of Cold War Asylum
Chapter 12: André Gerolymatos: An Appreciation
