Rupert Allason

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Rupert William Simon Allason was a politician in the United Kingdom. He was Conservative Party member of Parliament for Torbay in Devon, from 1987 until the landslide 1997 general election, when he lost his seat by a margin of 12 votes to Liberal Democrat Adrian Sanders. He was raised Roman Catholic, the faith of his Irish-born mother, and attended the Benedictine Downside School.

He writes books on the subject of espionage under the pseudonym Nigel West.

He was sued for libel by the billionaire crook and newspaper publisher Robert Maxwell but won the case without a lawyer, representing himself and winning record damages for a litigant in person by counterclaim.

He is the recipient of the US Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO)'s Lifetime Literature Achievement Award. He is the European Editor of the World Intelligence Review, published in Washington DC.

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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.

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