Matter of Intelligence

Charmian Brinson is Professor of German Studies at Imperial College, LondonRichard Dove is Emeritus Professor of German, University of Greenwich

• IntroductionPart I: I Spy 1933–391. Defending the realm: MI5 in the making2. Liddell in wonderland: MI5 and the Prussian secret police3. The undesirables: political refugees from Germany and Austria after January 19334. The mysterious case of Dora Fabian5. Nazi spies and the ‘Auslandsorganisation’6. No more peace: Otto Lehmann-Russbueldt and German rearmament7. Flying and spying: Claud W. Sykes, Karl Otten and the ‘Primrose League’8. The ‘Red Menace’9. ‘Peace for our time’Part II: Secrets, lies and misinterpretations10. ‘A state of confusion which amounted almost to chaos’: MI5 1939–4111. The internment of ‘enemy aliens’12. ‘The largest communist sideshow in London’: the Free German League of Culture13. The Austrian Centre - and ‘the great Eva’14. ‘About the most dangerous of all these organisations’: the Czech Refugee Trust Fund15. Whispers and lies: the informers16. Friends in need: British supporters of the refugeesPart III: Preparing for the Cold War17. Red alert: keeping watch on the communists18. Tube alloys: the British atomic bomb project19. The spy who was caught: the case of Klaus Fuchs20. The spy who got away: the case of Engelbert Broda21. Parting companyConclusionA note on sourcesSelect BibliographyIndex

"Given the wealth of literature that has appeared in recent decades on the victims of Nazism, it is now rare indeed for a book on the refugees from Hitler in Britain to open up to its readers an almost completely unexplored area of that history. Yet this is the case with Charmian Brinson and Richard Dove’s study, A Matter of Intelligence: MI5 and the Surveillance of Anti-Nazi Refugees, 1933-1950"(Anthony Grenville, Association of Jewish Refugees Journal, July 2014)"An immaculately researched study"(Nicholas Jacobs, Camden New Journal, 10/07/2014)