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SUMMARY:British Signals Intelligence on the Establishment of the Soviet Bl
 oc - Christian Schlaepfer (Pembroke)
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CONTACT:Ilya Berkovich
DESCRIPTION:\nThe importance of Signals Intelligence during the Second Wor
 ld War has long been established. For the period of the Cold War\, however
 \, it is curiously absent from the current historiography. Thanks to recen
 t declassification we now know that the British Signals Intelligence Agenc
 y GCHQ was intercepting a large number of police a...nd state security com
 munications in Eastern Europe after 1945. They demonstrate the extent to w
 hich the British government was informed in detail about the Stalinization
  of the region.\n\nThis paper will analyse this material and argue that th
 e intelligence it provided had a significant impact on the development of 
 domestic policy in the field of counter-subversion. Specifically\, the way
  the British government and intelligence community perceived and countered
  the Communist threat to national security was shaped considerably by the 
 experience of the Communist take-over of Eastern Europe.
LOCATION:Seminar Room N7\, Pembroke College
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