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Gill Bennett
Position: Associate Fellow
Gill Bennett MA OBE is an Associate Fellow, RUSI, formerly Chief Historian of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Senior Editor of the FCO’s official history of postwar foreign policy, Documents on British Policy Overseas, 1995-2005. She was a Visiting Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 2002-03 and formerly Assistant Editor of Documents on British Foreign Policy 1919-1939.
Publications include ‘Declassification and release policies of the UK’s Intelligence Agencies’, in Intelligence and National Security, Spring 2002; A most extraordinary and mysterious business: the Zinoviev Letter of 1924 (FCO, 1999); Nazi Gold I and II (FCO, 1996 and 1997); and The End of the War in Europe 1945 (ed), 1998. Gill Bennett’s biography of Desmond Morton, Churchill’s Intelligence adviser, was published in October 2006 as part of the Cabinet Official History series, entitled, Churchill's Man of Mystery: Desmond Morton and the World of Intelligence (Routledge, 2006).
Gill Bennet was the 2006/7 Distinguished Visiting Fellow lecturer at the Joint Services Command Staff College.
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The Fascination of Betrayal
23 Nov 2011Our fascination with betrayal is evidenced in the plethora of books, television programmes and films on espionage and yet the secrecy at its core runs in contrast to a contemporary obsession with accountability and the public’s supposed ‘right to know’.
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