The full story of the Anglo-American intelligence relationship, ranging from the deceits of World War I to the mendacities of 9/11 - now told for the first time.

• Preface and Acknowledgments


• Prologue: An American in Bruges


• 1: The Separate Beginnings of British and American Intelligence


• 2: Great War Origins of the Anglo-American Intelligence Partnership


• 3: Implications of the Zimmermann Telegram


• 4: The Special Intelligence Relationship in World War II


• 5: CIA: The New Model Agency


• 6: Surviving Mistrust: Cold War Episodes


• 7: Gone with Guyana: Anglo-American Intelligence Trust in Decline


• 8: An American Gift: Government in the Sunshine


• 9: The Distant Cousin: America Goes its Own Way


• 10: Europol


• 11: The Quest for European Intelligence


• 12: The Search for Intelligence


• Notes


• Further Reading


• Index

Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones is Emeritus Professor of American History at the University of Edinburgh and has held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard, the Free University of Berlin, and Toronto. The founder of the Scottish Association for the Study of America, of which is he the current honorary president, he has also published widely on intelligence history, including The CIA and American Democracy (1989) and The FBI: A History (2007).