The Enemy Within - the secret War against the Miners,Seumas Milne, 2004 (third revised edition), Verso, 439pp PB £10.00
Described as "the most important expose of contemporary political Britain" - John Pilger. The book exposes how the British Secret services were used to infiltrate the NUM to using phoney bank accounts, staged cash drops, forged documents, agents provocateurs and unrelenting surveillance. MI5 and police Special Branch set out to discredit Miners leaders, planted tales of corruption were seized upon by the media and politicians in what became a savage smear campaign.
This latest edition has been released in the wake of Iraq which has highlighted secret service misinformation.
This book provides an insight into the demise of Coal Mining and how politics got in the way of a once Great British Industry.
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