Mi5, the Cold War, and the Rule of Law

by Andrew Moretta, Keith Ewing, Joan Mahoney

This book explores the powers, activities, and accountability of MI5 from the end of the Second World War to 1964. It argues that MI5 acted with neither statutory authority nor statutory powers, and with no obvious forms of statutory accountability. It was established as a counter-espionage agency, yet was beset by espionage scandals on a frequency that suggested if not high levels of incompetence, then high levels of distraction and the squandering...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198818629
• ISBN13: 9780198818625
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.3"