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20 Some of Rotter’s intelligence logbooks have survived in TNA, ADM 137, e.g. 137/3880; Hiley, ‘Failure of British espionage’, 887-8.
CHAPTER 2: STATUS, ORGANISATION AND EXPERTISE
1 Historical Sketch of the Directorate of Military Intelligence, 1914-18 (TNA, WO 32/10776).
2 Callwell to Henry Wilson, 30 Sept. 1914 (Wilson papers, HHW 2/75/9); draft telegram, 4 Oct. 1914 (TNA, WO 339/7419) (I am most grateful to Phil Tomaselli for drawing this document to my attention); Kirke to wife, 3 Oct. 1914 (Kirke papers (IWM), WMK 2, folder I). The best source for military intelligence on the Western Front is Beach, ‘British Intelligence and the German Army’.
3 Mackenzie, Greek Memories, 90-1; Cumming service record (TNA, ADM 196/20).
4 Cumming service record (TNA, ADM 196/20); Kirke to wife, 12 Oct. 1914 (Kirke papers (IWM), WMK 2, folder I); Callwell to Wilson, 10 Dec. 1914 (Wilson papers, HHW 2/75/21).
5 Historical Sketch, 1914-18 (TNA, WO 32/10776).
6 Ibid.
7 Ibid.
8 Kirke diary, 29 Nov.-10 Dec. 1915 (Kirke papers (IWM), 82/28/1); Scheme for Reorganisation of S.S., Dec. 1915 (TS carbon copy) (Kirke papers (ICM), acc. no. 262).
9 For Merton see Hartley and Gabor, ‘Thomas Ralph Merton’.
10 MIɪ(c) air reports, 21-22 March 1918 (SHD (Terre), 16N1298, vol. 22).
11 The Times, 15 Oct. 1929.
12 In January 1917 Browning also successfully put Cumming up for election to the Garrick Club - a favourite of theatrical men (information from Mr Marcus Risdell, Curator and Librarian of the Club).
13 According to a letter from Macdonogh to the DID, 12 Nov. 1917, the War Office had similar concerns.
14 For Dansey’s early life, see Read and Fisher, Colonel Z.
15 Hoare, Fourth Seal, 31.
16 Kirke diary, 22 June, 11 Oct. 1915 (Kirke papers (IWM), 82/28/1).
17 Hartley and Gabor, ‘Thomas Ralph Merton’, 425.
18 Norman Thwaites to Wiseman, 1 Oct. 1918 (Wiseman papers, box 6, folder 175).
CHAPTER 3: OPERATIONS IN THE WEST
1 Maxse to FO, 19 Aug.; minute by Eyre Crowe, 21 Aug. 1914 (TNA, FO 371/2054).
2 See Tinsley’s naval service record (TNA, ADM 340/136); for his employment and expulsion, see papers in TNA, FO 368/537-8; Kirke diary, 29 Nov. 1915 (Kirke papers (IWM), 82/28/1); memoir, part 2, p. 150 (Kirkpatrick papers, 79/50/1); memoir, p. 23, and extract from letters to Walter Leschander, n.d. (Payne Best papers (ICM), acc. no. 1239); Landau, All’s Fair, 46-7.
3 Kirke diary, 29 Nov. 1915 (Kirke papers (IWM), 82/28/1); for Cameron see Winter, Winter’s Tale, 184-221.
4 Kirke diary, 19 Mar. 1915 (Kirke papers (IWM), 82/28/1).
5 Memoir, part 1, p. 59 (Kirkpatrick papers, 79/50/1); Kirke diary, 29 Nov. 1915 (Kirke papers (IWM), 82/28/1).
6 History of Intelligence (B), B.E.F., France, Jan. 1917 to Apr. 1919, by Col. R. Drake (TNA, WO 106/45); Andrew, Defence of the Realm, 73-5.
7 History of Intelligence (B) by Col. Drake (TNA, WO 106/45).
8 For Oppenheim see Landau, Spreading the Spy Net, 37-8.
9 History of Intelligence (B) by Col. Drake (TNA, WO 106/45); History of British Secret Service in Holland in World War I, Aug. 1914-Feb. 1917 by M. R. K. Burge (TNA, WO 106/6189).
10 See Kirke diary, 30 May, 9-10 June, 23 July, 17 Aug. 1916 (Kirke papers (IWM), 82/28/1); Landau, All’s Fair, 44, 46, 53; The Times, 21 Dec. 1916.
11 Landau, All’s Fair, 43-4.
12 History of British Secret Service in Holland (TNA, WO 106/6189).
13 Landau, All’s Fair, 108-12; Landau, Secrets of the White Lady, 47-57; ‘B.149’ to M. St Lambert, 7 July 1917 (Dewé papers, vol. 2); Decock, ‘La Dame Blanche’, 65-72, 101-7, 122-37; Proctor, Female Intelligence, 75-98 provides an excellent short account.
14 Proctor, Female Intelligence, 81-7; London Gazette, 29 Aug. 1919; La Dame Blanche papers, Box 1, folder 4(a/b); Landau, Secrets of the White Lady, 141-51.
15 Memoir, part 2, pp. 128-35 (Kirkpatrick papers, 79/50/1); Landau, All’s Fair, 50-1; Landau, Secrets of the White Lady, 65-79.
16 ‘There is no doubt at this critical moment you represent the most abundant Allied intelligence source and that the results you are achieving are