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Neutral Countries as Clandestine Battlegrounds, 1939-1968

Between Two Fires
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During the Second World War and the subsequent Cold War, foreign agents conducted intelligence-gathering, sabotage, and subversive operations inside neutral countries aimed at damaging their opponents' interests. The essays contained in this collection analyze the risks of espionage operations on neutral soil as well as the dangers their covert activities posed for the governments of neutral states. In striving to avoid involvement in the firing line of the Second World War or the front line of the Cold War, the contributors argue that neutral states developed security policies that focused on protecting their own sovereignty without provoking overt hostility from any of the great powers. This collection describes how the warring parties engaged in competition on neutral territory and analyzes how neutral governments rose to the existential challenge posed by international spies, their own venal officials, and even foreign assassins.
Chapter 1: Intelligence in Neutral Washington, 1914-1917 and 1939-1941 Chapter 2: "Under Morphia" from Madrid: Abduction and Anglo-Spanish Relations in 1941 Chapter 3: Making Waves: A German Radio in Neutral Ireland and Naval Operations in 1942 Chapter 4: Safe Harbour? Clandestine British and German Activities in Portugal and its Colonies during the Second World War Chapter 5: Ambiguous Neutrality and Nazi Intelligence in Spain during the Second World War Chapter 6: Guardians of the "Whispering Gallery"? Switzerland, Neutrality and the Clandestine War Chapter 7: Clandestine "Comrades": The Comintern, Tito and the Underground Communist Party of Yugoslavia, 1939-1941 Chapter 8: British Preparations for Clandestine War in Greece and the Balkans, 1939-40 Chapter 9: Ankara: Rabbit-Warren of Spies Chapter 10: Afghanistan, 1937-1945: From Lynchpin to Backwater Chapter 11: "Berlin of the East": India and the Politics of Cold War Asylum Chapter 12: Andre Gerolymatos: An Appreciation
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