SpyCruise 2003: New York to London on the QE2 -- "British Traitors—Sex, Spies and Lies", September 1-12, 2003

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SpyCruise® professors include (NOTE: Subject to change):

British author Christopher Andrew, one of the world's leading authorities on the history of intelligence and Professor at Cambridge University. His books on intelligence include Her Majesty's Secret Service: The Making of the British Intelligence Community; KGB: The Inside Story of its Foreign Operations from Lenin to Gorbachev (with Oleg Gordievsky); For the President's Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush; and The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB (with Vasili Mitrokhin).

Home Office press release, 4 pm, Wednesday 18 December 02

APPOINTMENT OF SECURITY SERVICE HISTORIAN

The Security Service (MI5) has today appointed Christopher Andrew, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, to research and write an official history of the Security Service to mark its centenary in 2009. Professor Andrew will work on the history as a part-time member of the Security Service, with full access to its material. The Security Service is delighted to have secured such an eminent historian to work on this project.

Chief Publications: Théophile Delcassé and the Making of the Entente Cordiale (1968) France Overseas: The Great War and the Climax of French Overseas Expansion (1980) (with A.S. Kanya-Forstner) The Missing Dimension: Governments and Intelligence Communities in the Twentieth Century (1984) (with David Dilks) Secret Service: The Making of the British Intelligence Community (1985) Codebreaking and Signals Intelligence (1986) Intelligence and International Relations 1900-1945 (1987) (with Jeremy Noakes) KGB: The Inside Story of its Foreign Operations from Lenin to Gorbachev (1990) (with Oleg Gordievsky) Instructions from The Centre: Top Secret Files on KGB Foreign Operations 1975-1985 (1991) (published in the USA as: Comrade Kryuchkov's Instructions) (with Oleg Gordievsky) More Instructions from The Centre: Top Secret Files on KGB Global Operations 1975-1985 (1992) (with Oleg Gordievsky) For The President's Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush (1995) Eternal Vigilance? Fifty Years of the CIA (1997) (with Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones) The Mitrokhin Archive. Vol.1: The KGB in Europe and the West (1999) (with Vasili Mitrokhin).

British intelligence author Nigel West, whose books include: Venona: The Greatest Secret of the Cold War; Crown Jewels; a series of books on the histories of MI5 and MI6; A Thread of Deceit: Espionage Myths of World War II; Operation GARBO: The Personal Story of the Most Successful Double Agent of World War II (with Juan Pujol); and many others.

Other SpyCruise professors on this voyage include David Major, retired senior FBI Supervisory Special Agent and co-founder of The Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies and of the SpyCruise concept, Connie Allen, a retired US Army counterespionage investigator, and Dan Mulvenna, a retired Canadian RCMP counterintelligence officer and security expert.