Stafford took his B.A. at Downing College,Cambridge,in 1963. He then undertook postgraduate study at the University of London,taking an M.A. and finally his Ph.D. in history in 1968.
From Anarchism to Reformism:A Study of the Political Activities of Paul Brousse,1870-90,University of Toronto Press (Toronto,Ontario,Canada),1971.
Britain and European Resistance,1940-1945:A Survey of the Special Operations Executive,with Documents,University of Toronto Press (Toronto,Ontario,Canada),1980.
Camp X:Canada's School for Secret Agents,1941-1945,Lester &Orpen Dennys (Toronto,Ontario,Canada),1986;Dodd Mead (New York,NY),1987.
The Silent Game:The Real World of Imaginary Spies,Lester &Orpen Dennys (Toronto,Ontario,Canada),1988;revised edition,University of Georgia Press (Athens,GA),1991.
(With J.L. Granatstein) Spy Wars:Espionage and Canada:From Gouzenko to Glasnost,Key Porter Books (Toronto,Ontario,Canada),1990.
(Editor,with A. Stuart Farson and Wesley K. Wark) Security and Intelligence in a Changing World:New Perspectives for the 1990s,Frank Cass (Portland,OR),1991.
Churchill and Secret Service,John Murray (London,England),1997;Overlook Press (Woodstock,NY),1998.
Roosevelt and Churchill:Men of Secrets,Little,Brown (London,England),1999;Overlook Press (Woodstock,NY),2000.
Secret Agent:The True Story of the Special Operations Executive,BBC Worldwide (London,England),2000;published as Secret Agent:The True Story of the Covert War against Hitler,Overlook Press (Woodstock,NY),2001.
(Editor) Flight from Reality:Rudolf Hess and His Mission to Scotland,1941,Pimlico (London,England),2002.
Ten Days to D-Day:Countdown to the Liberation of Europe,Little,Brown (London,England),2003;published as Countdown to D-Day:Citizens and Soldiers on the Eve of the Invasion,Little,Brown (New York,NY),2004.
Endgame,1945:Victory,Retribution,Liberation,Little,Brown (London,England),2007;published as Endgame,1945:The Missing Final Chapter of World War II,Little,Brown (New York,NY),2007.
The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was the intelligence agency of the United States during World War II. The OSS was formed as an agency of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) to coordinate espionage activities behind enemy lines for all branches of the United States Armed Forces. Other OSS functions included the use of propaganda, subversion, and post-war planning.
Major General Sir Stewart Graham Menzies, was Chief of MI6, the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), from 1939 to 1952, during and after the Second World War.
Igor Sergeyevich Gouzenko was a cipher clerk for the Soviet embassy to Canada in Ottawa, Ontario, and a lieutenant of the Soviet Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU). He defected on September 5, 1945, three days after the end of World War II, with 109 documents on the USSR's espionage activities in the West. In response, Canada's Prime Minister, Mackenzie King, called a royal commission to investigate espionage in Canada.
Reginald Victor Jones, FRSE, LLD was a British physicist and scientific military intelligence expert who played an important role in the defence of Britain in World War II by solving scientific and technical problems, and by the extensive use of deception throughout the war to confuse the Germans.
Camp X was the unofficial name of the secret Special Training School No. 103, a Second World War British paramilitary installation for training covert agents in the methods required for success in clandestine operations. It was located on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario between Whitby and Oshawa in Ontario, Canada. The area is known today as Intrepid Park, after the code name for Sir William Stephenson, Director of British Security Co-ordination (BSC), who established the program to create the training facility.
Archibald Henry Macdonald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso,, known as Sir Archibald Sinclair between 1912 and 1952, and often as Archie Sinclair, was a British politician and leader of the Liberal Party.
Sir Richard Stafford Cripps was a British Labour Party politician, barrister, and diplomat.
David Jay Bercuson is a Canadian labour, military, and political historian.
Sir William Samuel Stephenson, born William Samuel Clouston Stanger, was a Canadian soldier, fighter pilot, businessman and spymaster who served as the senior representative of the British Security Coordination (BSC) for the western allies during World War II. He is best known by his wartime intelligence code name, Intrepid. Many people consider him to be one of the real-life inspirations for James Bond. Ian Fleming himself once wrote, "James Bond is a highly romanticised version of a true spy. The real thing is... William Stephenson."
Rupert William Simon Allason is a British former Conservative Party politician and author. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Torbay in Devon, from 1987 to 1997. He writes books and articles on the subject of espionage under the pen name Nigel West.
Alan Nunn May was a British physicist and a confessed and convicted Soviet spy who supplied secrets of British and American atomic research to the Soviet Union during World War II.
The Quebec Agreement was a secret agreement between the United Kingdom and the United States outlining the terms for the coordinated development of the science and engineering related to nuclear energy and specifically nuclear weapons. It was signed by Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt on 19 August 1943, during World War II, at the First Quebec Conference in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
2 Intelligence Company is a Canadian Armed Forces Primary Reserve Intelligence Branch unit based in Toronto, headquartered at Denison Armoury. It is part of the 4th Canadian Division. The Intelligence Officers and Operators of the unit reside in the Greater Toronto Area, work as professionals in the business community and are also active in numerous community service organizations. They deploy on domestic and foreign operations, and are primarily responsible for tactical, or combat intelligence. Recent deployments include to Cyprus, Bosnia, Afghanistan, Kuwait, and Canada.
British Security Co-ordination (BSC) was a covert organisation set up in New York City by the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in May 1940 upon the authorisation of the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill.
The London Controlling Section (LCS) was a British secret department established in September 1941, under Oliver Stanley, with a mandate to coordinate Allied strategic military deception during World War II. The LCS was formed within the Joint Planning Staff at the offices of the War Cabinet, which was presided over by Winston Churchill as Prime Minister.
Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones is professor of American history emeritus and an honorary fellow in History at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He is an authority on American intelligence history, having written two American intelligence history surveys and studies of the CIA and FBI. He has also written books on women and American foreign policy, America and the Vietnam War, and American labor history.
The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6, is the foreign intelligence service of the United Kingdom, tasked mainly with the covert overseas collection and analysis of human intelligence on foreign nationals in support of its Five Eyes partners. SIS is one of the British intelligence agencies and the Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service ("C") is directly accountable to the Foreign Secretary.
This is a bibliographyof works on World War II.
Benjamin deForest "Pat" Bayly was a Canadian electrical engineer and a professor at the University of Toronto. During World War II he invented a cypher machine called the Rockex and handled communications at the secret intelligence base Camp X. He later ran an engineering company in Ajax, Ontario, and was the first mayor of that town. A street there is named after him.
Richard James Aldrich is a British political scientist and a historian of espionage who has written intensively about intelligence and security communities.
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