Plots and Paranoia: A History of Political Espionage in Britain, 1790-1988

By Bernard Porter

Presents the history of Britain's covert counter-subversive agencies from earliest times to Spycatcher. It disentangles the secret state from the web of myth which has surrounded it in the past and ends by revealing a new, possible but unsuspected Soviet mole, in a most unlikely place.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415079004
• ISBN13: 9780415079006
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 276 Pages