By James Kightly
Книга Orange sequence No.8103: Westland Lysander Orange sequence No.8103: Westland Lysander Книги Вооружение Автор: James Kightly Год издания: 2006 Формат: pdf Издат.:Mushroom version guides Страниц: 202 Размер: 73.57 ISBN: 8391717844 Язык: Английский0 (голосов: zero) Оценка:The Westland Lysander turned well-known for choosing up and shedding mystery brokers into Nazi occupied Europe on moonlit nights. but this used to be just one of the aircraft’s many jobs. initially designed for military co-operation, used extensively in strive against and coaching, it went directly to turn into a founding member of the ‘Salvation military’ as an air-sea rescue plane and later use as a goal tug. courageous males flew the Lysander from the chilly of prairie Canada, to the jungles of Burma and the warmth of the North African desolate tract. This ebook is the 1st ever to hide many formerly undocumented facets of the Lysander’s use, with firsthand money owed from pilots and flooring group. the images have been selected from authentic files and personal collections, and from the united kingdom, Europe, Canada and Australia. Many have by no means been released ahead of. It additionally offers brand-new scale drawings and color profiles, and data from formerly unused resources. complete listings of functionality, construction, devices and secondary clients also are integrated. Many precise tales are awarded right here for the 1st time, in addition to the exam of myths and formerly ‘secret’ details.
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The first was a scheme analogous to the Third Country system that remains the standard operational doctrine in SIS to this day. The second was a proposed field organization that anticipated the operational infrastructure of Cumming’s wartime MI1c in almost every respect. The third was a model of integrated tasking, collection, evaluation and even all-source analysis that both put intelligence collection into a more comprehensive context than previous ad hoc arrangements had imagined, and also anticipated the need for a tasking, collation and analysis architecture that would not systematically evolve until the interwar period.
Planning for a larger-scale, offensive intelligence capability was not confined to the military minds at MO5, however. The Foreign Office was also engaged in the formulation and consideration of plans for a foreign intelligence system in 1905. However, where MO5 thinking focused on operations in support of military requirements, the Foreign Office approach focused on economic information. 21 However, unlike MO5’s plans to expand its own collection capabilities, the Foreign Office approach was more inclined to seek information and assistance from nongovernmental, British interests already active abroad, such as private firms and business associations.
21 MI6 AND THE MACHINERY OF SPYING 22. Duncan Campbell, ‘Friends and Others’, New Statesman and Society 26 November 1982. The overall accuracy of Campbell’s charts was explicitly vouched for by i-29, while interview data from i-20 and i-28 will be seen to confirm and elaborate Campbell’s information. 23. Richard Norton-Taylor, In Defence of the Realm? (London: Civil Liberties Trust, 1990); the chart on p. 62 is drawn from Campbell’s 1982 publication, while the summary on p. 50 is drawn in part from Anthony Cavendish’s description of SIS structure in 1948, and West’s slightly muddled summary from the Friends of the SIS organization in 1946.