The first comprehesive account of the work of the Security Section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War, Security and Special Operations makes extensive use of recently declassified files and oral testimony in order to tell the story of the Section, which ran SOE's facility at Inverlair where failed recruits were held. It considers SOE's security arrangements overseas at its Misssions in Egypt, Italy and India, and goes on to examine the development of liaison between SOE and MI5, which was conducted through the Security Section, detailing the attempts made by MI5 to use 'blown' SOE agents in its double cross operations and offering a fresh perspective on both the 'Englandspiel' disaster in Holland and the case of the notorious agent Henri Dericourt.

'Security and Special Operations is a significant addition to the burgeoning literature of the history of the Special Operations Executive. Using recently declassified files from MI5 and SOE documents at the National Archives, Christopher Murphy is able to shed much new light on the troubled relationship between SOE, MI5 and SIS (MI6) during the Second World War, particularly over security issues.' - Richard Thurlow, University of Sheffield, UK

Introduction
The Origins and Development of SOE's Security Section
Inverlair No.6 Special Workshop School: 'The Cooler'
Security Abroad
Liaison with MI5 (i): Cooperation
Liaison with MI5 (ii): Conflict
Approaching Section V
Security Aspects of the Nordpol Affair
Double Cross and Deception
Unfinished Business
Postscript on Sources: SOE at The National Archives
Biblography
Index

CHRISTOPHER J. MURPHY is currently an independent scholar, and was formerly Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Contemporary British History at the Institute of Historical Research.