Rupert Allason
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Rupert William Simon Allason is a politician in the United Kingdom. He was Conservative Party member of Parliament for Torbay in Devon, until the landslide 1997 general election, when he lost his seat by a margin of 12 votes to Liberal Democrat Adrian Sanders.
He writes books on the subject of espionage under the pseudonym Nigel West.
In 1998 he sued BBC Worldwide and Hat Trick Productions for libel for producing a book, Have I Got 1997 For You based on the satirical TV series Have I Got News For You, in which he was described as a "conniving little shit". He lost the case, which, as a subsequent episode of the programme pointed out, means that he is the only person in the UK who can be called a "conniving little shit" without fear of being sued (successfully) for libel.
Work
- MI5 : British security service operations, 1909-1945, New York : Stein and Day, 1982, 1981.
- A matter of trust : MI5, 1945-72, London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982; published in the U.S as The Circus : MI5, operations 1945-1972, New York : Stein and Day, 1983.
- MI6 : British secret intelligence service operations : 1909-45, London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983.
- Unreliable witness : espionage myths of the Second World War, London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984.
- Garbo co-written by Juan Pujol with Nigel West, London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1985.
- GCHQ : the secret wireless war, 1900-86, London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986.
- Molehunt : the full story of the Soviet spy in MI5, London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987.
- The Friends : Britain's post-war Secret Intelligence operations, London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988.
- Games of intelligence : the classified conflict of international espionage, London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1989.
- Cuban bluff : a novel, London : Seeker & Warburg, 1990.
- Seven spies who changed the world, London : Secker & Warburg, 1991.
- Secret war : the story of SOE, Britain's wartime sabotage organisation, London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1992.
- The crown jewels : the British secrets exposed by the KGB archives, London : HarperCollins, 1999, 1998.
- Mortal crimes : the greatest theft in history : Soviet penetration of the Manhattan Project, New York : Enigma Books, 2004.