West, Nigel. Games of Intelligence: The Classified Conflict of Interna-
tional Espionage Revealed. New York: Crown Publishers, 1990. 248 pages.
Nigel West, also known as Rupert Allason, is a British writer
specializing in intelligence and security issues. Despite a pro-
government bias that caused Allason to condemn the naming of names in
1985, up until then he had probably named more British intelligence
officers than anyone. The son of a Tory MP, Allason ran for parliament
himself as a Thatcher Conservative in 1986.
Games of Intelligence is a broad, name-intensive survey of British,
French, U.S., and Soviet intelligence. Allason prefers attention to detail
and the occasional anecdote to make his points, rather than the scholarly
approach that would have to be used by those without Allason's impressive
access to classified sources. This makes the book a good read as well as
a good reference to some of the available literature.
ISBN 0-517-57811-5
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