October 27, 2009

27th October 2009 – 6.30-9.00pm

Location: Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms

Professor Christopher Andrew lectures on the turbulent relationship between MI5 and the SIS during the Second World War.

Second World War collaboration between MI5 and SIS was marked by extraordinary successes (among them the most important deception in the history of warfare), some friction and curious ironies. In the middle of the war, MI5 had greater confidence than the KGB in the SIS officer Kim Philby. Whereas SIS set out to win Churchill’s support, MI5 tried for several years to keep him at arm’s length.

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The Churchill Lecture Series, which runs from September 2009 until April 2010, is presented by some of the world’s leading authorities on Churchill. They take place within the remarkable and historic setting of the Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms. Sponsored by Military History.

October 2009 marks the centenary of the modern British Intelligence Community and the founding of the Secret Intelligence Service (sometimes known as MI6) and the Security Service, MI5. This lecture series, presented by some of the leading historians in the field of intelligence and based in part upon closed records, offers a fascinating insight into the wartime contribution of SIS.

 

Adults £15, Seniors, Students and Friends of the Imperial War Museum £12 The price of your lecture ticket also allows you preferential access to the Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms. Guests can enjoy the site before and after the lecture.

Doors open at 6.30 with the lectures beginning at 7.00pm. Doors remain open after the lectures until 9.00 pm.

Lectures are available to book by telephone on 020 7766 0155* Online booking available from 1 August.

 

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