Stephen Dorril

Stephen Dorril (born 17 July 1955) is a British academic, author, and journalist. He is a former senior lecturer in the journalism department of Huddersfield University and ex-director of the university's Oral History Unit. His books have mostly been about the UK's intelligence services. In 1983, Dorril co-founded the magazine Lobster with Robin Ramsay. He has been a consultant to BBC's Panorama programme.

Career

Dorril has appeared as a specialist and consultant regarding intelligence matters on several radio and television programs: Panorama, Media Show, Secret History, World at One, NBC News, Canadian television, History Channel, French television, and others. Dorril was due to serve as a consultant on a Channel Five series on the intelligence services. His first book Honeytrap, written with Anthony Summers about the Profumo affair, was one of the sources used for the film Scandal (1989).

Works

Books

Honeytrap: The Secret Worlds of Stephen Ward, with Anthony Summers. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1987). ISBN 0340429739.

Smear!: Wilson and the Secret State. New York: HarperCollins (1992). ISBN 0586217134.

The Silent Conspiracy: Inside the Intelligence Services in the 1990s. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinemann (1993). ISBN 0434201626.

MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations. London: 4th Estate (2000). ISBN 1857020936.

US Edition: New York: Free Press (2002)

UK Edition: London: Touchstone (2002)

MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service. New York: Simon & Schuster (2002). ISBN 0743203798.

Blackshirt: Sir Oswald Mosley and British Fascism. New York: Viking Press (2006). ISBN 0670869996. See: Excerpted notes + appendix.

Media appearances

The Man Who Knew Too Much (2021)

Extended interview.

L'affaire Jack King (2015)

BBC Inside Out: Yorkshire and Lincolnshire (2002)

Spy Secrets: Playing Dirty (2003)