Between Five Eyes: 50 Years of Intelligence Sharing

Anthony Wells has written an insightful and informative book about the UK-US intelligence and the Five Eyes community, charting fifty years of change, turmoil, challenges, successes, and failures. He highlights the development of institutions that have sustained and saved the free world, Western democracies, and their allies from those ill-disposed to their values.

Format: Hardback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 01 October 2020
Publisher: Casemate Publishers

Few individuals possess the exceptional expertise and firsthand experience necessary to craft a comprehensive account of these intimate and privileged relationships like Anthony Wells. His insightful and informed analysis provides us with immense optimism regarding the sustainability of an alliance that contributes to a safer world. - VICE ADMIRAL SIR JEREMY BLACKHAM,Knight Commander of the Bath,Editor,The Naval Review UK-US intelligence and the broader Five Eyes community, encompassing Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, revolves primarily around one central aspect: relationships. In this extraordinary book, Anthony Wells embarks on a fifty-year journey, traversing a landscape of change, turmoil, formidable challenges, remarkable successes, and enduring failures, while intricately documenting the enduring UK-US and Five Eyes relationships. He meticulously traces the evolution of institutions that he firmly believes have fortified and, in some cases, even rescued the free world, Western democracies, and their allies from those harboring adversarial intentions towards our nations' values and cultures. This book goes beyond a mere chronology of the UK-US intelligence community during this fifty-year period; it also offers a personal perspective into key relationships and the profound strength of the United States, the United Kingdom, and their Five Eyes allies' relationships. The author has drawn upon his extensive, unclassified collection of papers, personal notes, diaries, and his family library as primary sources for this remarkable work.

Weight: 548g
Dimension: 161 x 236 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781612009001