Richard Aldrich
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| Born | Richard James Aldrich 7 December 1961 Rochdale, England |
| Alma mater | Corpus Christi (Cambridge) |
| Children | 2 |
Found an official letter from Michael Hanley, the head of MI5 in 1977, saying the ABC Trial's Duncan Campbell was "the person of the greatest interest to see incarcerated." | |
Richard James Aldrich is a British political scientist and historian of espionage who is Professor of International Security at the University of Warwick. He was previously a professor at the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham. Aldrich was co-editor of the journal Intelligence and National Security for eight years, and now co-edits Studies in Intelligence with Christopher Andrew.[1]
Research interests
Richard Aldrich gained his PhD from Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge, in 1990.
His research interests lie in the area of intelligence and security communities. He also studies the future of cyber security, liberty and privacy, extending to IT developments including public key cryptography. He has recently led a project entitled "Landscapes of Secrecy: The Central Intelligence Agency and the Contested Record of US Foreign Policy, 1947-2001", examining the creation of the public record of the CIA in realms such as history, memoirs, novels, film and the press.
In 2010, he completed a history of GCHQ and in September 2016 he began a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship to investigate the future of secrecy.
His most recent book (co-authored with Rory Cormac), "The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers", explores the interaction between intelligence and the UK executive.[2]
Works
Monographs
- GCHQ: The Uncensored Story of Britain's Most Secret Intelligence Agency (HarperPress, 2010)
- Intelligence and the War against Japan: Britain, America and the Politics of Secret Service (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
- The Faraway War: Personal Diaries of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific (Transworld Publishers Limited, 2006)
- Witness To War: Diaries Of The Second World War In Europe And The Middle East (Doubleday, 2004)
- The Hidden Hand: Britain, America, and Cold War Secret Intelligence (John Murray Press, 2001)
- Intelligence and the War Against Japan: Britain, America and the Politics of Secret Service (Cambridge University Press, 2000)
- Espionage, Security and Intelligence in Britain, 1945-1970 (Manchester University Press, 1998)
- The Key to the South: Britain, the United States, and Thailand During the Approach of the Pacific War, 1929-1942 (Oxford University Press, 1993)
- British Intelligence, Strategy and the Cold War, 1945-51(Taylor & Francis, 1992)
Co-authored books
- The Black Door Lib/E: Spies, Secret Intelligence, and British Prime Ministers (William the 4th, 2020)
- The Secret Royals: Spying and the Crown, from Victoria to Diana (Atlantic Books, 2021) with Rory Cormac[3]
- Secret Intelligence: A Reader (Routledge, 2019) with Christopher Andrew and Wesley K. Wark
- Spying on the World: The Declassified Documents of the Joint Intelligence Committee, 1936-2013 (Edinburgh University Press, 2014) with Rory Cormac and Michael S. Goodman
- The Clandestine Cold War in Asia, 1945-65: Western Intelligence, Propaganda and Special Operations (Taylor & Francis, 2000) with Ming-Yeh Rawnsley and Gary D. Rawnsley
- Intelligence, Defence and Diplomacy: British Policy in the Post-War World (Taylor & Francis, 1994) with Michael F. Hopkins