ROOM 3603 by Hyde, H. Montgomery (foreword by Ian Fleming) - 1977

New York: Ballantine Books, 1977. 286 pp. Light edge and corner wear with a crease on the front hinge and a flat uncreased spine; previous owner's name inside. The BSC - British Security Co-ordination - was a covert organisation set up in New York City by the British Secret Intelligence Service - MI6 - in May 1940 with the authorization of Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Its purpose was to investigate enemy activities, prevent sabotage against British interests in the Americas, and mobilise pro-British opinion in the Americas. As a huge secret agency of nationwide news manipulation and black propaganda, the BSC influenced news coverage in the Herald Tribune, the New York Post, The Baltimore Sun, and Radio New York Worldwide. The stories from Rockefeller Center would then be legitimately picked up by other radio stations and newspapers, before being relayed to the American public. Through this, anti-German stories were placed in major American media outlets to turn public opinion against the Germans, quite necessary because so many people in the U.S. actually sided with Germany. BSC benefitted from support given by the chief of the US Office of Strategic Services, William J. Donovan - whose organization was modelled on British activities - and US President Franklin D. Roosevelt who was seriously against the Nazis. The Contents are: Foreword by Ian Fleming; Prelude; The Birth of B.S.C.; Spies Saboteurs and Propagandists; The Vichy French and Others; Special Operations; C.O.I. and O.S.S.; Propaganda at Work; and Finale; followed by an index.. First Printing - First Thus. Paperback. Very Good. Book.