Covert and Overt Operations: Interwar Political Policing in the United States and the United Kingdom
(2017)
Journal Article
Luff, J. (2017). Covert and Overt Operations: Interwar Political Policing in the United States and the United Kingdom. American Historical Review, 122(3), 727-757. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/122.3.727
This article reveals a startling episode unknown to contemporaries and historians: Britain’s secret interwar bar on Communists in government service. Between 1927 and 1946, thousands of unwitting industrial workers suspected of Communist sympathies w... Read More about Covert and Overt Operations: Interwar Political Policing in the United States and the United Kingdom.