ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the colonial records, including those recently released from the Foreign Office's secret archive at Hanslope Park, as well as the historiography of British counter-insurgency, which has been reinvigorated as a result, to examine the consequences of fighting such a campaign virtually blind. The British Army's campaign against EOKA during the Cyprus Emergency was hamstrung by a dearth of intelligence from within the ethnic Greek population, which formed the insurgent's ranks. The extent of British brutality has hitherto been obscured by a smokescreen of pro-enosis propaganda and government counter-claims, making it difficult for the historian to distinguish fact from fantasy. Documents from Hanslope Park, recently released to the National Archives at Kew, have shed some light on the use of force in British intelligence gathering and interrogation practices. It would be over-simplistic to conclude that British torture was only employed when other avenues of intelligence gathering had been blocked.
