Tag: Intelligence Records and researchOperation Sandstone: Surveying Britain’s Cold War beachesFriday 3 April 2020On 16 September 1952, S J Bassett of the Naval Intelligence Department filed a...Behind the scenesThe outbreak of the Second World War in 1939Friday 23 August 2019Shortly before 05:00 on Friday 1 September 1939, German forces stormed the Polish frontier....Records and researchPaddy Costello: Soviet spy or political intellectual?Tuesday 11 April 2017Costello was an academic, soldier and diplomat, who remains as controversial now as he...Records and researchBombing with bank notesMonday 15 February 2016The Nazi war machine printed millions of pounds of forged British bank notes ...Records and researchDodgy dealings with the ‘merchant of death’Monday 21 December 2015An international arms dealer known by the universal nickname of Zedzed. Corrupt payments seeking...