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Thanks to James Bond and le Carré, British secret intelligence looms large in the cultural consciousness of the Cold War. But how significant was it in reality? How would its capacity stack up agianst the espionage services of France or West Germany? What about Italy or Sweden?

by /u/Hackson_Pollock in /r/AskHistorians

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