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Step Changes and Learning Curves in the History of British Intelligence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 October 2013

PHILIP DAVIES
PHILIP DAVIES*
Affiliation:
Brunel Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 3PH; [email protected]
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Contemporary European History , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , November 2013 , pp. 687 - 697
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