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Document: MI6's Secret Slush Fund

20/11/2017

MI6's Secret Slush Fund

BBC Radio 4 - Document, MI6's Secret Slush Fund

Gordon Corera investigates a secret fund belonging to the MI6 chief in the 1950s.

Gordon Corera investigates a secret fund belonging to the chief of British Intelligence in the 1950s. What did it make possible, and who was the mystery American who donated it?

BBC Security Correspondent Gordon Corera investigates a secret slush fund belonging to the Chief of British Intelligence in the years after World War Two. What did it make possible? Who was the mysterious American who donated it - and why did they do it?

With: Dr Rory Cormac, Stephen Dorril, Gill Bennett, Hugh Wilford

Producer: Phil Tinline.

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