About the Program
Keith Jeffery, British history professor at Queen's University, Belfast, presents a history of the British Secret Intelligence Service, MI6. The author was given unprecedented access to the MI6 archives to assist in his examination of the organization from 1909 to 1949. Mr. Jeffery recalls the longstanding relationship between the British Secret Intelligence Service and the White House, its covert operations inside the United States, examines the organization's espionage tactics, and profiles members of the Service, which included writers such as Graham Greene and Somerest Maugham. Keith Jeffery discusses his book at Politics & Prose bookstore in Washington, DC.