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Michael Smith, The Real Special Relationship: The True Story of How the British and US Secret Services Work Together

Simon & Schuster, 2022, 576 pp., ISBN 9781471186790

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  1. Lucy Fisher, “Boris Johnson thinks ‘special relationship’ label makes Britain look needy,” The Telegraph, 7 June 2021, accessed at https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/06/07/boris-johnson-thinks-special-relationship-label-makes-britain/.

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  3. H. B. Westerfield, “America and the World of Intelligence Liaison,” Intelligence and National Security 11/3 (1996), p. 528.

  4. Christopher M. Andrew, and David Dilks, The Missing Dimension: Governments and Intelligence Communities in the Twentieth Century (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1984).

  5. Benjamin Fischer, (2023) “Penkovsky, the Spy Who Tried to Destroy the World,” International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, 36:1, 156–178, https://doi.org/10.1080/08850607.2021.1945372.

  6. Shaun Waterman, “NSA trove in foreign hands: 58,000 ‘highly classified’ documents, U.K. officials say,” Washington Times, 30 August 2013, accessed at https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/30/snowden-trove-foreign-hands-includes-58000-highly-/.

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Gioe, D.V. Michael Smith, The Real Special Relationship: The True Story of How the British and US Secret Services Work Together. Soc 60, 454–456 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-023-00835-y

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