Paul Todd read philosophy at the University of East Anglia and has a doctorate from the University of Middlesex. A historian of the Cold War specialising in Middle East issues, he has done research at the US National Security Archives and was editor of The Gulf Report monthly at the Gulf Centre for Strategic Studies in London. He is the author of World Power and Global Reach: US Security Policy in Southwest Asia and Global Intelligence: The World's Secret Services Today. Jonathan Bloch was born in Cape Town, South Africa. He studied law at the University of Cape Town and the London School of Economics. He was politically active in South Africa and remains involved in Southern African causes. He is now a London-based businessman and is a Liberal Democrat councillor in the London Borough of Haringey. He co-authored British Intelligence and Covert Action and KGB/CIA, Global Intelligence: The World's Secret Services Today and was also a co-author of three chapters in the collection Dirty Work 2: The CIA in Africa.

The late Patrick Fitzgerald was a journalist and researcher who wrote extensively on intelligence and national security for the New Statesman, Economist, New Scientist, Tribune and other publications. He was co-author (with Jonathan Bloch) of British Intelligence and Covert Action, and Stranger On The Line. He studied Mathematics at Oxford University. Patrick tragically died in December 2008.