TRIPLEX: MORE SECRETS FROM THE CAMBRIDGE SPIES
Book ID/图书代码： 00530014B76047
English Summary/英文概要： TRIPLEX, or XXX, is the secret classification assigned to material illicitly copied from the diplomatic pouches of neutral embassies in wartime London.
TRIPLEX was acquired by a joint MI5 – SIS wartime operation to distract diplomatic couriers overnight with male and female prostitutes on their journeys home and copy the contents of the pouches. Invariably the couriers flew from Hull (to Stockholm) or from Bristol (to Lisbon) but their civil aircraft would be delayed by mechanical problems or adverse weather conditions, causing the pouches to be lodged overnight with the airport police, thus allowing the target to reacquaint himself with the attractive individual he first encountered hours earlier on the train. Once opened and photographed by technicians, the diplomatic seals would be replaced by a team of skilled craftsmen. The operation was conducted successfully throughout the war without incident and was never compromised. There is no reason to believe that any of the target diplomatic missions ever suspected their most confidential communications, usually letters, reports, documents and other items too valuable to entrust to the telegraph or wireless, had been accessed.
The operation was so secret that no mention of it has been made in any official history of wartime British intelligence. However, full details are to be disclosed in Moscow where the KGB archives have a collection of the TRPLEX product supplied by Anthony Blunt while he was the senior MI5 officer supervising the operation.
This book, which takes its title from the operation, includes a selection of authentic M5 and SIS documents never previously seen. This material amounts to the very first evidence of precisely what Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross betrayed to their Soviet contacts.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在战时的伦敦，中立国的大使馆会对外交邮袋使用一种名为“三重奏”的分类方式。
“三重奏”当时被联合军情五处收购，军情处会联合妓女与男妓分散外交信使的注意，将包裹调换并复制下其内容。信使总会从赫尔（斯德哥尔摩），或布里斯托尔（里斯本）起飞，但飞机却经常因为机械故障或极端天气而延误，所以邮袋只能由机场警卫看管过夜。军情处此时就会派出技术人员打开邮包，将其中的内容拍摄下来，而外交印章则会由手艺精湛的工匠重新修复。在战时，这个行动被执行得天衣无缝，没有暴露过一次。敌方担心情报或无线会被监听，所以采取了信件的方式，他们从来没有想到过这些最机密的情报，通常是信件，报告，文件会这样暴露。
这个行动太过机密，以至于在英国军情处的官方历史记录中找不到丝毫记录。但是在莫斯科的苏联国家安全委员会却完整收录了由安东尼•布朗特提供的“三重奏”邮包，他当时是联合军情五处的高级官员，监管着整个行动。
书中收录了一些从未面世的第一手资料，也是金•菲尔比，安东尼•布朗特和约翰凯恩克罗斯背叛苏维埃政府的证据。（XAT）
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About the Author/作者介绍： 尼格尔•韦斯特是一位专攻情报和安全事务的军情历史学家。大学期间，他专门研究了两位作者，一位是罗纳德•塞斯，曾被特别行动处空降至西里西亚执行任务，还有理查德•迪肯，一位战士海军情报处官员，后成为了《星期天泰晤士报》的国际编辑，又加入了英国广播公司成为间谍。1989年，韦斯特被《观察者》评为“专家中的专家间谍作家”。2003年10月，他被前情报官员美国协会授予文学终身成就奖。韦斯特目前是国际情报与反间谍杂志的欧洲编辑，并在反间谍与安全研究中心教授战后情报历史。2012年，韦斯特被任命为圣尔敏年度军情最佳图书奖的评委。
Nigel West is a military historian specializing in intelligence and security issues. While still at university, he worked as a researcher for two authors: Ronald Seth, who had been parachuted into Silesia by Special Operations Executive, and Richard Deacon, a former wartime Naval Intelligence officer and latterly the foreign editor of The Sunday Times. He later joined BBC TV’s General Features department to work on the SPY! and ESCAPE series.
In 1989, West was voted The Experts’ Expert by a panel of spy writers selected by the Observer. In October 2003, he was awarded the U.S. Association of Former Intelligence Officers first Lifetime Literature Achievement Award. He is currently the European editor of the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence and teaches the history of postwar intelligence at the Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies in Alexandria, Virginia. In 2012 he was appointed to the panel of judges for the St Ermin’s Best Intelligence Book of the Year prize.
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