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100 _aFIORE Massimiliano
245 _aRome confidential:
_bdeception and espionage in the British embassy/
_cMassimiliano Fiore
260 _c2023
520 _aBased on a critical analysis of unpublished archival sources, this article seeks to reconstruct their spying activities and understand their place in the history of intelligence, and to provide an assessment of the prevailing Foreign Office security arrangements. It concludes that poor employment practices and security arrangements at the British Embassy in Rome allowed them to pull off a major espionage coup.
598 _aROME, BRITISH EMBASSY, ESPIONAGE, WORLD WAR I, NEWARTICLS
650 _aROME
650 _aBRITISH EMBASSY
650 _aESPIONAGE
650 _aWORLD WAR I
773 _g Intelligence and National Security, Volume 38, Number 3, April 2023, pg. 379-389
856 _uhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02684527.2022.2098550
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