MI5 and the Cold War in South-East Asia: examining the performance of Security Intelligence Far East (SIFE), 1946–1963

Shaw, Alexander Nicholas

doi:10.1080/02684527.2017.1289695

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“…Yet SIFE had long viewed MSS as meddling beyond its domestic remit. 203 It felt MSS's head, Col. Dalley, was an empirebuilder who had interfered in its domain of regional counter-intelligence, while not producing good enough local information. 204 MI5's Alex Kellar (who in mid-1948 was despatched to become interim head of SIFE) called Dalley 'an empire-builder', and Sir Percy Sillitoe, MI5's director, had been arguing since May 1948 that the pan-Malayan MSS should revert to two police Special Branches, to reflect the splitting off of Singapore and better integrate it into police work.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Malayan Emergency

Hack

2021

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The Malayan Emergency of 1948–1960 has been scrutinised for 'lessons' about how to win counterinsurgencies from the Vietnam War to twenty-first century Afghanistan. This book brings our understanding of the conflict up to date by interweaving government and insurgent accounts and looking at how they played out at local level. Drawing on oral history, recent memoirs and declassified archival material from the UK and Asia, Karl Hack offers a comprehensive, multi-perspective account of the Malayan Emergency and its impact on Malaysia. He sheds new light on questions about terror and violence against civilians, how insurgency and decolonisation interacted and how revolution was defeated. He considers how government policies such as pressurising villagers, resettlement and winning 'hearts and minds' can be judged from the perspective of insurgents and civilians. This timely book is the first truly multi-perspective and in-depth study of anti-colonial resistance and counterinsurgency in the Malayan Emergency.

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Section: British Decisionsmentioning

confidence: 99%