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Gordon Corera

Biography

Gordon Corera

Gordon Corera is a security correspondent for BBC News. In that role, he covers the work of Britain's intelligence agencies. His documentary series "MI6: A century in the Shadows" was broadcast in the summer of 2009. His series "The Real Spooks" on MI5 was broadcast in December 2007. He was educated at Oxford and Harvard Universities and joined the BBC in 1997.

Gordon Corera

Books by Gordon Corera

The Art of Betrayal: The Secret History of MI6: Life and Death in the British Secret Service
by Gordon Corera - History, Nonfiction

Our understanding of what it means to be a spy has been largely defined by the fictional worlds of Ian Fleming and John le Carré. Gordon Corera provides a unique and unprecedented insight into this secret world and the reality that lies behind the fiction. He tells the story of how MI6 has changed since the end of the Second World War and illustrates the danger, the drama and the moral ambiguities that come with working for British intelligence.