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Christopher Andrew

Born Christopher Maurice Andrew

23 June 1941

Nationality British

Education Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

University

Occupation Historian

Known for Official Historian of the Security

Service (MI5)

Christopher Andrew (historian)From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Christopher Maurice Andrew (born 23

July 1941) is an historian at the University of

Cambridge with a special interest in

international relations and in particular the

history of intelligence services.

Contents

1 Life

2 Controversy

3 Select bibliography4 See also

5 References

Life

Andrew is Professor of Modern and

Contemporary History, former Chairman ofthe History Faculty at Cambridge University,

Official Historian of the Security Service

(MI5), Honorary Air Commodore of 7006 (VR) Intelligence Squadron in the Royal Auxiliary

Air Force, Chairman of the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar, and former Visiting Professor at

Harvard, Toronto and Canberra. Professor Andrew is also co-editor ofIntelligence and

National Security, and a regular presenter of BBC Radio and TV documentaries, including the

Radio Four series What If?. His twelve previous books include a number of path-breaking

studies on the use and abuse of secret intelligence in modern history. He is currently a governor

of Norwich School where in the 1950s he was a pupil, and has recently retired from his post as

President of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

Andrew studied under the historian and wartime cryptanalyst Sir Harry Hinsley, in common

with fellow historian Peter Hennessy,[1] Former students of Andrew - including Peter Jackson,

Richard Aldrich, Tim Edwards and Wesley Wark - now staff the intelligence studies and

intelligence history posts in universities around the English-speaking world.

Professor Andrew's reputation as an historian of intelligence studies was cemented with two

studies completed in collaboration with two defectors and former KGB officers, Oleg

Gordievsky and Vasili Mitrokhin. The first of these works, KGB: The Inside Story was ascholarly work on the history of KGB actions against Western governments produced from

archival and open sources, with the critical addition of information from the KGB defector

Gordievsky. His two most detailed works about the KGB were produced in collaboration with

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The Cambridge Intelligence

Seminar

KGB defector and archivist Vassili Mitrokhin, who over the course of several years recopied

vast numbers of KGB archive documents as they were being moved for long storage. Exfiltrated

by the Secret Intelligence Service in 1992, Mitrokhin and his documents were made available to

Andrew after an initial and thorough review by the security services. Both volumes, 1999's The

Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB and the 2005

edition The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World (both

volumes simply titled The Mitrokhin Archive in UK publication) resulted in some public

scandal as they revealed the names of former KGB agents and collaborators in government,

industry and private life around the world.[2] Most famous amongst these was the revelation in

1999 of the "Grandmother Spy", 87-year old Melita Norwood, who had passed industrial

information and other intelligence to the KGB for more than 50 years. [3]

The Cambridge Intelligence Seminar, chaired by Professor

Andrew (and founded by his late mentor Harry Hinsley),

convenes regularly in rooms at Corpus Christi College,

Cambridge. Active and former senior members of variousintelligence services around the world participate in the

discussions, with most participants made up of Andrew's

graduate students, fellow historians and other academics. At

these meetings, detailed analysis of various past and present

intelligence affairs is discussed under the Chatham House

Rule, with the confidence that it will not be attributed to a

person or organisation.[4]

Controversy

In February 2003, Andrew accepted the post of official historian for the Security Service MI5,

being chartered to write an official history of the service due for their centennial in 2009. This

appointment - which entailed Andrew's enrollment into the Security Service - drew criticism

from some historians and commentators. In general, these criticisms drew heavily on the

suggestion that he was too close to MI5 to be impartial, and that indeed his link with the

Service (formalised with his privileged access to the defectors Gordievsky and Mitrokhin) made

him a "court historian" instead of a clear-eyed and critical historian.[5] Others however defend

Andrew's appointment stating that some of England's most revered historians like Hugh

Trevor-Roper were also historians and agents and accuse critics of this appointment of envy.[6]

Persistentif unfoundedrumours that Andrew was "MI5's main recruiter in Cambridge" have

done little to quieten critics.[7] Professor Andrew's response to these criticisms has been that he

cannot afford to be biased towards the service. As The Guardian quoted Andrew, "Posterity

and postgraduates are breathing down my neck. I tell my PhD students: I know you can only get

on in the profession by assaulting teachers. You are not going to make a reputation by saying

'Look, Professor Andrew was right all along the line'."[5] MI5's files will eventually be opened

to others to inspect, and Andrew suggests that should he white-wash the history now, he will befound out and his entire corpus of work undermined.

Select bibliography


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Thophile Delcass and the Making of the Entente Cordiale (1968)

France Overseas: The Great War and the Climax of French Overseas Expansion (1980)

(with A.S. Kanya-Forstner)

The Missing Dimension: Governments and Intelligence Communities in the Twentieth

Century (1984) (with David Dilks)

Secret Service: The Making of the Briti sh Intelligence Community (1985)

Her Majesty's Secret Service:The Making of the Bri tish Intelligence Community

(American Edition 1986,1987)

Codebreaking and Signals Intelligence (1986)

Intelligence and International Relations 1900-1945 (1987) (with Jeremy Noakes)

KGB: The Inside Story of its Foreign Operations from Lenin to Gorbachev (1990) (with

Oleg Gordievsky)

Instructions from The Centre: Top Secret Files on KGB Foreign Operations 1975-1985

(1991) (published in the USA as: Comrade Kryuchkov's Instructions) (with Oleg

Gordievsky)

More Instructions from The Centre: Top Secret Files on KGB Global Operations

1975-1985 (1992) (with Oleg Gordievsky)For The President's Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from

Washington to Bush (1995)

Eternal Vigilance? Fifty Years of the CIA (1997) (with Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones)

The Mitrokhin Archive. Vol. I: The KGB in Europe and the West(1999) (with Vasili

Mitrokhin)

The Mitrokhin Archive. Vol. II: The KGB and the World(2005) (with Vasili Mitrokhin)

The Defence of the Realm: The Authorised History of MI5 (2009) ISBN

978-0-307-26363-6

See also

Mitrokhin Archive

References

^ Peter Hennessey, forward to Understanding

Intelligence in the Twenty-First Century, LV

Scott and Peter Jackson, eds. London: 2004.

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^ UK House of Commons, Hansard Debates

21 October 1999, Columns 587-594

2.

^ BBC NEWS | UK | Melita Norwood: A

secret life (http://news.bbc.co.uk

/2/hi/uk_news/444519.stm)

3.

^ Ronen Bergman, " " ("An

Intelligence Wet Dream") (in Hebrew), Yediot

Aharonot, 9 March 2007. (NB: Bergman

incorrectly refers to the Intelligence Seminaras the "British Intelligence Study Group",

possibly confusing it with the Study Group on

4.

Intelligence, of which Prof Andrew is also a

member)^a

b

David Walker "Just How Intelligent?",

(http://www.guardian.co.uk/education

/2003/feb

/18/highereducation.academicexperts) The

Guardian, 18 February 2003

5.

^ Curtis B. Robinson, Caught Red Starred:

The Woolwich Spy-Ring and Stalin's Naval

Rearmament on the Eve of War(Bloomington

IN, 2011), p. 20.

6.

^ The people that talk about terror

(http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?menuID=2&subID=1726&p=4)

The First Post

7.


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