The role of the British Intelligence Services during the End of Empire and the Early Cold War: from Attlee to Churchill

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This project aims to establish the role and influence of British Intelligence in the making and implementation ofBritish foreign and imperial policy in the immediate post-war period, with a focus on the changes or lack thereofbetween the Attlee and Churchill governments. The initial hypothesis is that structural changes in Britain and theinternational order increased the influence of secret intelligence and reliance on it, by reducing the legitimacy of,and attraction to, resorting to military force. The project will draw from newly-released Foreign Office andColonial Office files in order to problematize the previous historiography.