Book reviews : British Intelligence and Covert Action: Africa,Middle East and Europe since 1945 By JONATHAN BLOCH and PATRICK FITZGERALD (London,Junction Books,1983). 284pp. £5.95

The books in question are John Marks and Victor Marchetti, The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence (London, 1974); John Marks, The search for the 'Manchurian Candidate' (London, 1980); Philip Agee and Louis Wolf (eds), Dirty Work: the CIA in western Europe (New Jersey, 1978); John Stockwell, In search of enemies (London, 1978); and Frank Snepp, Decent interval: American debacle in Vietnam (London, 1980).