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Richard J. Aldrich was born in 1961 and was educated at the universities of Manchester, Aberdeen and Cambridge. He has held a Fulbright fellowship at Georgetown University in Washington DC and is currently visiting Canberra and Ottawa as a Leverhulme fellow. He teaches international relations at the University of Nottingham and is the author of several books including The Hidden Hand: Britain American and Cold War Secret Intelligence which won the Donner Book prize in 2002 and was shortlisted for the Westminster Medal. More recently he has co-ordinated an international programme of research into diaries of the Second World War for an anthology entitled Witness to War to be published by Doubleday in 2004.
He is a regular commentator on war and espionage and has written for the Evening Standard, The Guardian, The Times and The Telegraph - as well as journals such as International Affairs and the CIA's own in-house publication Studies in Intelligence. In addition to writing he enjoys media work and has collaborated on the production of documentaries with BBC Timewatch and the Discovery channel. He has appeared on BBC One's 'Panorama', Radio 4's 'Start the Week' and C-Span's 'Book TV'.
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