Serving Secretly - An Intelligence Chief on Record: Rhodesia into Zimbabwe, 1964-81 - Hardcover

Flower, Ken

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719544386 ISBN 13: 9780719544385

Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1987

Synopsis

For the first time, a Head of Secret Intelligence from the British sphere of influence has written his memoirs. Serving Secretly is a picture of the real world of intelligence, far removed from the speculations of journalists and fictions of thriller writers. In 1963 Ken Flower, as a senior commissioner of police in Rhodesia, was suddenly asked to go "faceless" and set up a Secret Service organisation from scratch. Within months, the security situation began to deteriorate and he found himself with Ian Smith and the Rhodesian front hardliners as political masters, intent on pursuing UDI. Britain retaliated with sanctions and the black resistance movements started receiving international support. Drawing on sources is not generally available, and often suppressed in the past, Serving Secretly is one of the most remarkable stories to emerge in the last 30 years. Quite apart from providing a fascinating insight into the actual business of running a secret intelligence operation, it will force many revisions to be made to the hitherto accepted history of Rhodesia-Zimbabwe.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0719544386
• ISBN 13: 9780719544385
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352