Terrorist acts, bribery, blackmail, ties to the criminal underworld—this is far from a complete list of the means from the arsenal of the “knights of cloak and dagger” of British intelligence services. In a book released in Ireland, local journalists, based on extensive factual material, expose the secret operations of British intelligence after the Second World War: planting agents in the media, in student, trade union, and other public organizations; recruiting mercenaries to fight against the legitimate governments of liberated countries; physical retribution against unwanted leaders of former English colonies; persecution of the Catholic minority in Northern Ireland; and nonstop attempts to undermine the positions of young independent states in Africa and Asia. The book shows the connection between Britain and the United States’ intelligence services—their joint actions against the forces of democracy and progress.