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'' programme. His first book ''Honeytrap'', written with Anthony Summers about the Profumo affair, was one of the sources used for the film '' Scandal'' (1989).

Career

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, History Channel, French television, and others. Dorril also served as a consultant on a forthcoming Channel Five series on the intelligence services.

Works

Articles

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Books

* ''Honeytrap: The Secret Worlds of Stephen Ward'', with Anthony Summers. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1987). . * ''Smear!: Wilson and the Secret State''. New York: HarperCollins (1992). . * ''The Silent Conspiracy: Inside the Intelligence Services in the 1990s''. Portsmouth, New Hampshire:

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(1993). . * '' MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations''. London:

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(2002) * ''MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service''. New York: Simon & Schuster (2002). . * ''Blackshirt: Sir Oswald Mosley and British Fascism''. New York: Viking Press (2006). . See
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Media appearances

''The Man Who Knew Too Much''
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Extended interview.
* ''L'affaire Jack King'' (2015)
''BBC Inside Out: Yorkshire and Lincolnshire''
(2002)
''Spy Secrets: Playing Dirty''
(2003)

Conference papers

* "The Secret Intelligence Service and Journalists During the Cold War." Delivered at the ''Journalism and History: Dialogues Conference'', University of Sheffield (Sep. 15, 2010).

References

External links

Official website
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dorril, Stephen 1955 births Living people Academics of the University of Huddersfield British male journalists People from Kidderminster