British security coordination: The secret history of british intelligence in the Americas, 1940-1945

Written at the end of World War II and long kept secret, a fascinating report traces the activities of the British spy network in North and South America, created by Winston Churchill to spread antiNazi and pro-British propaganda.
“This secret history of British intelligence operations in America during World War Il reveals that Britain was engaged in a far broader and more cynical attempt to manipulate the united States in the two years before Pearl Harbor than has previously been revealed….
“Intelligence experts say it was a masterful covert-action program arguably the most effective in history. And by drawing the United States out of isolationism and into the web of british secret operations in a global war, it changed America forever…
“The study is a virtual textbook on the art of manipulation. And it portrays the America of 1940 and 1941 as a society almost laughably easy to manipulate … Like so many other things, the americans learned to manipulate the media from their British cousins. Indeed, the BSC history is almost a menu for the covert-action techniques that have been used ever since by the CIA.” David Ignatius, The washington post