Tracing Your Secret Service Ancestors

Phil Tomaselli

• Publisher: Pen & Sword Family History
• Year: 2009
• eBook ISBN:
  9781844688449
• Print ISBN:
  9781844159871
• Subtopic: British History

Did you have a spy in the family, an ancestor who was involved in espionage at home or abroad? If you have ever had any suspicions about the secret activities of your relatives, or are curious about the long hidden history of Britain's secret services and those who served in them, this is the book for you. Phil Tomaselli's fascinating guide to over 200 years of British spies and spying takes the reader on a journey through the twilight world of the secret intelligence organizations Britain has run since the time of the French Revolution to the modern day, and it shows where their records can be found.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 1 Getting Started
• Chapter 2 Early Days
• Chapter 3 MI5 in the First World War
• Chapter 4 SIS in the First World War
• Chapter 5 Finding First World War Intelligence Service Records
• Chapter 6 Naval and Military Intelligence in the First World War
• Chapter 7 MI5 Between the Wars
• Chapter 8 SIS Between the Wars
• Chapter 9 MI5 in the Second World War
• Chapter 10 Other Intelligence and Secret Organisations in the Second World War
• Chapter 11 Special Operations Executive: Secret Agents and Sabotage
• Chapter 12 The Government Code & Cypher School at Bletchley Park
• Chapter 13 SIS in the Second World War
• Appendix 1 Other Archives and Collections
• Appendix 2 The Military Intelligence Directorate
• Appendix 3 The First Passport Control Officers
• Appendix 4 Passport Control Officers
• Appendix 5 SIS Station Identifiers (Old Style)
• Appendix 6 CX Source Identifiers
• Appendix 7 SIS Structure Chart, 1923
• Appendix 8 SIS Structure Chart, 1943
• Appendix 9 July 1943 Passports
• Bibliography