Nigel West

Nigel West is a military historian,
specializing in intelligence and security issues. He is
currently the European Editor of the International
Journal of Intelligence and Counter-Intelligence and
teaches the history of postwar intelligence at the Centre
for Counterintelligence and Security Studies in Alexandria,
VA. He is the author of many books, including the
Historical Dictionary of British Intelligence
(Scarecrow Press, 2005). In October 2003 he was awarded the
U.S. Association of Former Intelligence Officers' first
Lifetime Literature Achievement Award.