Nigel West

Nigel West is 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. He is the author of many books, including the Historical Dictionary of British Intelligence (2005), Historical Dictionary of International Intelligence (2006), Historical Dictionary of Cold War Counterintelligence (2007), and Historical Dictionary of Sexspionage (2009), all available from Scarecrow Press. In October 2003, West was awarded the U.S. Association of Former Intelligence Officers' first Lifetime Literature Achievement Award.