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The subject of my new book A Faithful Spy, the late MI6 and MI5 Officer Walter Bell is the heart of the AS/British Cold War Intelligence Relations. His Hitherto Undisclosed Private Papers, On which the Book Draws, Also Covers His posts to Kenya 1949-1952, to Delhi in 1952-57, West Indies in 1958-1960, Kenya Again in 1961-1967 WHERE HE WAS INVOLVED OPERATIONALLY, AS BRISHT INTELLGENCE MONITORED SOVIET influence on anti -colonial leaders and played a crucial role in the passing of political power while maintaining a covert role of advisors with independent new countries.

In Kenya, Bell’s first post told him to suffer in the hands of dysfunctional colonial administration that failed Would want The next brutal rising and oppression of the African people by British authorities.

In contrast to his colonial Mr. who fired African nationalist leader Jomo Kenyatta as a terrorist, Bell was finally invited back to Kenya by Kenyatta himself, as he became president, as part of an agreement with MI5, which made the British advise the Kenya government about security issues including identifying Russian security issues.

In Post-independence India, Bell developed close relations with key figures in the Nehru government such as the Head of Indian BNMulik intelligence and Army Head Jayanto Chaudhuri who made him informed of India’s policy of the Soviet Union and regional tension outside the Indian border.

In the Caribbean, Bell plays a secret diplomatic role, as a secret intermediary with the main political figures in the British colony as part of an effort to create a federation as an alternative to directing the colonial government. Bell contacts include Jamaican property tycoon that is well connected, John Pringle, Socialist Trinidadian, influential writer and journalist, CLR James, and Conservative Minister Julian Amery, British Prime-Son-Son-in-law Harold Macillan with whom he shared Chedi intelligence.