Christopher Andrew

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Christopher Maurice Andrew (born 23 July 1941) is a British historian and professor with a special interest in international relations and in particular the history of intelligence services.

He is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Former Chair of the History Faculty at Cambridge University, Official Historian of the Security Service (MI5), Honorary Air Commodore of 7006 Squadron (Intelligence) in the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, Chair of the British Intelligence Study Group, and former Visiting Professor at Harvard, Toronto and Canberra.

Professor Andrew is also co-editor of Intelligence and National Security, and a regular presenter of BBC Radio and TV documentaries, including the Radio Four series What If?. His twelve previous books include a number of path-breaking studies on the use and abuse of secret intelligence in modern history.

In recent years he has collaborated with two KGB defectors, Oleg Gordievsky and Vasili Mitrokhin, producing detailed histories of the KGB and its operations using material and documents provided by the two. His two most detailed works about the KGB in collaboration with KGB defector and archivist Vasili Mitrokhin are The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB (1999) and The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World (2005).

He is currently a govenor of Norwich School and President of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

According to Ronen Bergaman, Intelligence Correspondent of the Israeli Yediot Aharonot newspaper, the British Intelligence Study Group, presided by Prof. Andrew, convenes every two weeks - always on Friday at 5.30 pm - at Building C of the Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Active and former senior members of various intelligence services around the world participate in the discussions. According to Bergamn, at these meetings, detailed analysis of and much classified information on various past and present intelligence affairs is disclosed, with the complete assurance that nothing of it will leak out.

Bergman specifically mentioned Sir Richard Dearlove, former head of the Btitish Secret Intelligence Service(MI6), as a regular participant - as are (unnamed) senior past and present members of the Israeli intelligence services. ^[1].