[English] Anthony Wells While I was doing doctoral thesis research with Professor Harry Hinsley, I also joined one of the most interesting groups in the "Shangshe" as a naval service member, the applied psychology group.

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[UK] Anthony Wells

[English] Anthony Wells While I was doing doctoral thesis research with Professor Harry Hinsley, I also joined one of the most interesting groups in the

While I was doing doctoral thesis research with Professor Harry Hinsley, I also joined one of the most interesting groups in the "Shangshe" as a naval service member, namely Applied Psychology team. My early insights and research into the Nazi mentality, as well as my experience working with Professor Hinsley and other World War II veterans, enabled me to analyze Cold War adversaries from an unusual psychological perspective.

The head of this applied psychology group was the highly respected Edward Elliott. He graduated from University College London. He is not a professional soldier, but he is my boss. My colleague is a very fine gentleman, Dr. Eon Williams. He is a Welshman who served as a Royal Air Force pilot during World War II and, like Edward, graduated from University College London. He and I worked closely together, and by all accounts I was a relatively junior partner. However, Ivern is older and experienced, never overbearing, always willing to share his thoughts, and a team player, making him a perfect partner.

It was a magical era that inspired infinite wisdom and had high requirements for the achievements of our intelligence work and the quality of our intelligence products. We only strived for the best in everything, and we would rather lack than waste. We needed more outside help, so we traveled around to make extensive connections and collect data.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, one of the most outstanding psychologists in Britain and even the world was Professor Hans Eysenck. He was born in Berlin in 1916. He later became a British citizen and died in 1997. He was a doctoral candidate under the guidance of British psychology professor Sir Cyril Burt (1883-1971). Hans Eysenck, who specialized in the study of intelligence and personality, was working at the Institute of Psychiatry at my alma mater, King's College London, which was also part of the School of Medicine at King's College London. Ivern and I visited him many times. He was extremely helpful and provided us with great insights and exciting leads that helped shape our working methods and product structure. In search of outside help, we travel around the world. During one of my trips to Copenhagen to contact a well-known expert, it was during this trip that I experienced my first personal contact with agents of the Soviet intelligence agency, the KGB. One of their surveillance teams found me, and apparently there seemed to be a team of agents in Copenhagen who were following me 24 hours a day. In most cases I was able to successfully dump the person or lure them into a dead end, but at the time I simply realized that I was a target. About six months later, I received systematic counterintelligence training, which was of great benefit to me. It allowed me to understand how fast the Cold War was going and how deeply and covertly the Soviet Union penetrated around the world.

At the beginning of 1972, I came to the secret enclave called "The Upper House" in London's Bush Park. I thought I would be appointed to a position on a warship, but when the person who appointed me (the senior officer responsible for managing my career and appointment) called me to announce my fate, I was pleasantly surprised. Appointed Senior Lecturer and Tutor at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. You know, in the spring of 1972, I was just a naval captain, and to be awarded such a high position was indeed an exceptional promotion. I later learned that the appointment was owed to Professor Brian Ranft and Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Ellis, Master of the Royal Naval College Greenwich and CBE (September 1918). 6 - 13 January 2002), it was they who specifically requested that I be appointed to replace a retiring naval officer (who was a legend among graduates of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich).

When the person who appointed me explained to me the nature of the position and the courses I would be teaching, I realized that taking over from an officer who was 25 years older than me seemed extremely challenging. I spent a day meeting Professor Brian Ranft at Greenwich .I teach on several courses, some of my favorites include the Greenwich Captain's Course, the Special Duties Personnel Course, the Royal Navy Staff Course, and I occasionally travel as a guest lecturer to the Naval War College (Naval) War College) teaches intelligence courses (intelligence courses are Greenwich's advanced courses, specially designed for captains in the Royal Navy and officers of the same level in the Army and Royal Air Force).

I really enjoy the teaching work here, which includes lecturing and providing tutoring in small groups (usually no more than 6 officers). I specialize in those areas in which I have expertise, covering the history of intelligence, its role in strategy and policy development, and its impact on naval operations. I did a lot of research on intelligence and quickly realized that I had an extraordinary amount of knowledge that I could pass on to people who knew nothing or little about intelligence. My intelligence knowledge was beyond the scope of the military and civilian academic staff at Greenwich, which gave me the confidence to stand up for myself in front of senior commanders and captains. These are based on my previous knowledge and experience I have gained through doing research and advising intelligence agencies.

I regularly travel to central London to visit the Ministry of Defense and intelligence agencies. I want to expand my research scope, increase my knowledge base to help my students, and stay fully up to date with the latest intelligence developments. The connections I made during my previous research at King's College London helped me a lot.

My students are all outstanding talents in various fields. Many of them have outstanding professional resumes. Most of them held senior positions in the Battle of the Malvinas Islands and the subsequent Gulf War. I am honored to be able to share my views and thoughts on the future with the elites of the Royal Navy at the academy where Prince Charles of England once studied.

The historical origins of cooperation between Britain and the United States during World War II laid the foundation for intelligence cooperation among the five countries during the Cold War and after. As the military capabilities of other countries continue to develop, it is self-evident that members of the Five Eyes Alliance must have conclusive scientific and technological intelligence. Therefore, each member state must continuously improve its intelligence capabilities, work structure, force deployment, overseas bases, logistics support, etc. to safeguard key national security interests. During World War II, every country's intelligence organization became streamlined and efficient. After the emergence of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, the United States' intelligence organization began to expand.

During the "World War II", the British crown could be said to be kept by the code-breaking geniuses at the Buschley Manor. The American counterpart to these British geniuses was the intelligence officers of the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence. These two groups, the British and the American, played an extremely important role during the war, and there is a large amount of information recording the relevant facts.

Signals intelligence and deciphering enemy communications codes were critical to Allied victory. Canada, Australia and New Zealand joined the Anglo-American intelligence club a little later, but also played a pivotal role. During the war, the U.S. Office of Strategic Services, British MI6 and the British Special Operations Service were responsible for carrying out human intelligence work. They carried out highly sensitive covert operations in a variety of ways to defeat the enemy. In the process, they often cooperated with various countries in Europe and Asia. cooperation with various resistance organizations and groups.

Wartime intelligence leaders such as Lord Hinsley, Dr. Jones and Masterman had an important influence on the reorganization of British and American intelligence agencies after 1945. For example, they conducted training for new recruits recruited by British and American intelligence agencies, which affected the working methods and scientific research of other three-nation intelligence organizations. Based on this, when the Cuban Missile Crisis occurred in 1962, these five countries had very capable intelligence leaders, including both the new generation and the older generation of intelligence personnel who had accumulated experience during the war. The older generation is responsible for training and mentoring the new generation.

Those recruited in the 1960s are now mostly retired, with a few exceptions.

I am one of the survivors who was taught by stalwarts such as Lord Hinsley and Vice Admiral Norman Denning in the 1960s.Hinsley was working on code breakers for major naval operations at Bletchley Park, while Denning was working in the Royal Navy's famous "Room 39", which was the operational intelligence centre.

There are countless people like me in the intelligence organizations in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand who belong to the same generation of new intelligence personnel. They have also been trained and taught by the "World War II" intelligence veterans.

The intelligence communities of the United Kingdom and the United States have successively established some new agencies. For example, the United States established the Defense Intelligence Agency on October 1, 1961, and the United Kingdom established the Defense Intelligence Group under the Ministry of Defense on April 1, 1964. The existing intelligence services and agencies of the two countries are independent of each other because they perform different intelligence functions, including signals intelligence, human intelligence, counterintelligence and, later, space intelligence. The intelligence organizations corresponding to these functions include the US National Security Agency , the British Government Communications Headquarters, the US Central Intelligence Agency, the British MI6, the counterintelligence branch of the US FBI and the British MI5 (responsible for domestic counterintelligence work in the UK). ).

Most importantly, the other three members of the Five Eyes Alliance have achieved a high degree of integration through extensive personnel exchange programs, embassy liaisons, and round-the-clock intelligence data exchange. Later, the United States established a unique intelligence organization in 1960, the National Reconnaissance Office, which is affiliated with the Department of Defense. It is responsible for designing, assembling and launching reconnaissance satellites for the US government, and analyzing the space shuttles of the CIA and military agencies. , intelligence collected by satellites, but it was kept secret for many years. It was not until 1992 that the U.S. government officially recognized the existence of this intelligence organization.

The naval intelligence organizations of the "Five Eyes" countries are all led by a director of naval intelligence. There are obvious similarities between the navies of the five countries, and cooperation between them has never been interrupted. GCHQ and the US NSA have particularly close relationships with their counterparts in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Good working relationships and lasting friendships are established, both on a working level and on a personal level, which are the guarantee of a successful collaboration. This kind of cooperation and friendship is largely due to the foundation laid by predecessors during the " World War II" period.

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