Counter-Intelligence

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' Counter-Intelligence is the best recruitment manual for an intelligence agency I have ever read… a lucid and absorbing account of what makes GCHQ tick.' TLS

‘A brilliant book.’ Nihal Arthanayake, BBC Radio 5

'…gives food for thought for intelligence buffs, history readers, those interested in organisations and in-house cultures, and is highly recommended.' RUSI

Robert Hannigan is a cybersecurity specialist who served as the Director of the signals intelligence and cryptography agency the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) between 2014 and 2017. He also established the UK's National Cyber Security Centre. For many years he worked for Prime Minister Tony Blair on the Northern Ireland peace process. He is now Warden of Wadham College, Oxford University.