Rory Cormac

@lucatrenta.bsky.social I got a message saying you DM’d me but I don’t have direct messenger on here anymore since they did that age verification thing so can’t read it. Sorry

Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library This paper develops a historical and political geographical analysis of the UK Foreign Office's Information Research Department (IRD). To date, there has been no geographical study of IRD and through...

“The geographies of the information research department”

Enjoyed this “critical geographical analysis” of British covert operations

And there’s me thinking that geography was just oxbow lakes and erosion!

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Oh turns out it’s on preorder.

Loving the blurbs from early readers:

“Often laugh out loud”;
“Monty Python meets le Carré”;
Fun, fascinating and absurd;
“Spy thrillers have nothing on Fakers”

Can’t wait to share it!

www.amazon.co.uk/Fakers-Top-S...

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Enjoyed this study on anglocentrism in covert action scholarship. It says I’m wrong merely to point to an evidence bias. Shame it didn’t come out before we did the below 👇

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

1/3 📕 #CovertAction: National Approaches to Unacknowledged Intervention is now out!

I am delighted to have co-authored the chapter “Czechoslovakia: Covert Measures in Peace and War.”

Age of Deception by Jon R. Lindsay | eBook | Cornell University Press At the heart of cybersecurity lies a paradox: Cooperation makes conflict possible. In Age of Deception, Jon R. Lindsay shows that widespread trust in cyberspace enables espionage and subversion. While...

Good news! You can now download the open access (free) ebook of Age of Decption from @CornellPress !

(You can also buy a paperback, which makes a fine decoration for your bookshelf)

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Don’t know why that posted twice!

Putting the racy in books about bureaucRACY geddit you can have that endorsement on your next front cover Dan!

Putting the racy in books about bureaucRACY geddit you can have that endorsement on your next front cover Dan!

Ha I don’t think I’ve ever been called racy! (and would never be so arrogant as to assume reference to me). I do have some thoughts though…

“There would be no embellishments or the deployment of ‘artistic licence’ to make some stories a racier read: a current, worrying trend in the intelligence historiography we see in our bookstores today” - who’s that pop aimed at???

Thanks

Thanks for the support

Strong recommend. 👊

@terrystiastny.bsky.social what’s the best way of contacting you please? I no longer have DM on here

Will do!! And thanks

Thanks!! It’s been a fun one

For now but hopefully someone will come in for it

Thanks, I’m really pleased with it

Thanks. Can’t wait for it to be out

Next year. Just got the cover design and am pretty pleased with it

Is the exact vibe I was going for!

It’s nonfiction history but I was trying something new and wrote it sort of like a novel. So much fun

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And the publication experience was as smooth as the whisky.

Feel free to use that as an endorsement!!

The original book was by lashmar and Oliver (below). I have a new book coming out on it in May with OUP. Carlton House Terrace features prominently (i remember going inside a few years back for a BA thing and got v excited!) www.amazon.co.uk/Britains-Sec...

I thought 10-11 Carlton House Terrace was the home of the IRD. The most secret unit was in the attic. It then all moved to offices on the river in mid1960s.

Fantastic! Do we get to go in the attic rooms where, in the late 1950s / early 1960s, the information research department’s top secret team of forgers and fakers worked on black propaganda?? Do we get to see what was once Hans Welser’s office, or has it all long since been remodelled?

🤷‍♂️ my dad grew up in a Nottingham housing scheme “but” developed a passion for Latin AND football …

growing up poor ≠ uncultured

Great to see! I hear there’s a particularly great chapter on Israel…