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17 For the Bureau Central Interallié see Cockerill, What Fools We Were, 41-2; and Mersey, A Picture of Life, 276-96. Various British CX reports (from Athens and Copenhagen in Dec. 1915) survive in the French records of the Bureau (see SHD (Terre), 7N1018).
18 Calculations from British intelligence reports in SHD (Terre), 16N1291-1300 (29 vols). Judd says that ‘the CX prefix had staying power, surviving in later SIS vocabulary in a number of ways’ (Judd, Quest for C, 333).
19 MIɪ(c) reports, 6, 8, 16 June 1917 (SHD (Terre), 16N1291, vol. 4); Newbolt, Naval Operations, v, 241-65; Jones, War in the Air: Appendices, 50.
20 Landau, All’s Fair, 143-9; Rotterdam to London, 14 Mar. and 27 June 1916, enclosing reports from R.16 (TNA, ADM 223/637, which contains additional commendations by Naval Intelligence Staff).
21 ‘Service anglais’ to ‘Service d’Observation anglais’, 21 July 1918 (Dewé papers, vol. 1); memoir, part 2, p. 150 (Kirkpatrick papers, 79/50/1).
22 Beach, ‘British Intelligence and the German Army’, 239-66.
23 London Gazette, 29 Aug., 12 Sept. 1919; The Times, 28, 31 Jan., 2 Feb. 1920.
24 D.1 report, 12 Nov. 1915; D.10 report, 8 May 1916 (TNA, MUN 4/518 and 4/3587); D.2 reports, 20, 23 Mar. 1915, 3 Jan. 1918; D.5 report, 12 Oct. 1917; D.62 report, 11 Apr. 1918 (SHD (Terre), 16N1291, 1295-6, 1298, vols 1, 11, 17, 24).
25 S.50 reports, 20 Apr., 10 May 1917; N.20 report, 3 Jan.; S.8 report, 4 Feb. 1918 (SHD (Terre), 16N1291, vol. 1; 1292, vol. 4; 1296, vol. 17; 1297, vol. 19).
26 Kirke diary, 25 Feb.-3 Mar., 22-23 Mar., 3, 10 Apr., 20, 22 June, 14 July 1915 (Kirke papers (IWM), 82/28/1).
27 New York Times, 28 Nov. 1915.
28 Kirke diary, 10 Jan. 1916 (Kirke papers (IWM), 82/28/1); Andrew, Secret Service, 146-53; Maugham, Partial View, 115-16.
29 Kirke diary, 23 Mar., 29 Nov. 1915 (Kirke papers (IWM), 82/28/1).
30 Ibid., 3 Dec. 1915 (ibid.).
31 Intelligence reports in SHD (Terre), 16N1291-1300.
32 For MI5 stations in Italy and the USA, see Andrew, Defence of the Realm, 104-6.
33 Economic Conditions (Enemy Countries), summaries nos 15-17, covering 23 June-20 July 1917 (SHD (Terre), 16N1292, vols 5-6); H. Llewellyn Smith to David Lloyd George (Minister of Munitions), 6 Aug. 1915 and attached note (TNA, MUN 4/3586); ‘German Munitions Output’ file (MUN 4/3262); report from D.1, 12 Nov. 1915 (MUN 4/3586); report from S.1, 12 Nov. 1916 (MUN 4/3587); report from Tiger, 27 Oct. 1916 (MUN 4/3262).
34 Stagg to Hoare, 11 May 1916 (Templewood papers, II.1.39).
CHAPTER 4: WORKING FURTHER AFIELD
1 There are general accounts of British intelligence in Russia, 1914-17 (on which I have drawn in this and succeeding paragraphs) in Macdonogh to General Sir Henry Wilson, 14 Jan. 1917 (Wilson papers, HHW 3/12/59); and History of the British Intelligence Organisation in Russia, 1914-Feb. 1917 (TNA, WO 106/6190). For a useful overall assessment, see Neilson, ‘“Joy rides”?’
2 Callwell to Wilson, 11 Dec. 1914 (Wilson papers, HHW 2/75/22).
3 History of the British Intelligence Organisation in Russia, 1914-Feb. 1917 (TNA, WO 106/6190).
4 Buchanan to FO, 20 Dec. 1914 (TNA, FO 371/2446/156).
5 The Times, 13, 16, 23 Aug. 1952.
6 Kirke diary, 7 Feb. 1916 (Kirke papers (IWM), 82/28/1); Cumming to Samuel Hoare, 12 May 1916 (Templewood papers, II.1.40).
7 Baird to Hoare, 13 Feb. (Templewood papers, II.1.36); Cumming to Hoare, 11 May 1916 (Templewood papers, II.1.38); Hoare’s entertaining account is in his memoir, Fourth Seal.
8 Instructions for the Agent in charge of the Mission to Petrograd, n.d. [c. 11 May 1916], Cumming to Hoare, 12 May 1916 (Templewood papers, II.1.40-1); Hoare, Fourth Seal, 53, 57.
9 British Intelligence Mission, note by Hoare, 5 Feb. 1917 (Wilson papers, HHW 3/12/7).
10 Ibid.
11 Cumming to Hoare, 28 Apr.; ‘Weekly Notes No. 2’, 26 Dec.; Hoare to ‘C’, 30 Dec. 1916; Hoare to Browning, 1 Jan.; ‘The death of Rasputin’, 1/2 Jan. 1917 (Templewood papers, II.1.15-16, 37, 47-9).