The Secret History of MI6 - Keith Jeffery [447]
16 Report of Secret Service Committee, 27 July 1921 (TNA, CAB 127/357); Thomson to Sinclair, 1 Nov. 1921 (Sinclair papers, MS 81/091, scrapbook vol. 1).
17 Treasury memo, n.d. [Jan. 1922] (TNA, CAB 127/358).
18 Note on the Secret Service by S. of S. for War, n.d. [Jan. 1922] (TNA, CAB 127/360); Secret Service Committee, 1st meeting, 4 Mar. 1922 (TNA, CAB 127/359).
19 Conference of ministers, 20 Feb. 1922 (TNA, CAB 127/356); Secret Service Committee, 1st-3rd meetings, 4, 24 and 27 Mar. 1922 (TNA, CAB 127/359).
20 Report of Secret Service Committee, 4 Apr. 1922 (TNA, CAB 127/356).
21 ‘Actual expenditure’ in 1921-2 was £195,000 (Foreign Office: £145,000); and in 1924-5, £162,000 (Foreign Office: £137,000) (Cabinet Office papers).
22 ‘S.I.S. (Constantinople Branch) Summary of Intelligence Reports for week ending 16 Dec. 1920’ (TNA, FO 406/45, p. 40).
23 A colour reproduction of this document was used for the endpapers of Judd, Quest for C.
24 Sykes service record, including minute by Rear Admiral Rushbrooke, 26 Mar. 1946 (TNA, ADM 340/424).
25 For Morton see Gill Bennett’s definitive study, Churchill’s Man of Mystery.
26 Wiseman to Thwaites, 20 Jan. 1919 (Wiseman papers, box 3, folder 84).
27 Notes by Robert Woollcombe, n.d. (Woollcombe papers).
28 Secret Service Committee, 1st meeting, 4 Mar. 1922 (TNA, CAB 127/359).
29 Mackenzie, Ægean Memories, 394.
30 Cumming to Hoare, 24 Jan. [1923] (Templewood papers, V.1).
31 Sinclair service record (TNA, ADM 196/43).
32 Hall to Sinclair, 18 Dec. 1918 and 14 Jan. 1919 (Sinclair papers MS 81/091, scrapbook vol. 1).
33 Lee (First Lord of the Admiralty) to Sinclair, 31 May 1921; and Admiralty to Sinclair, 17 May 1923 (Sinclair papers MS 81/091, scrapbook vol. 1).
34 The Times, 16 June 1923; Williams, World of Action, 338-9.
35 Andrew, Secret Service, 295; Pinero, Gay Lord Quex, 11, 15, 75.
36 The Times, 6 Nov. 1939; ‘The Annual Submarine Dinner, 1921’ (Sinclair papers MS 81/091, scrapbook vol. 1).
CHAPTER 6: FROM BOCHE TO BOLSHEVIKS
1 Wilson diary, 10 Nov. 1918 (Wilson papers); Tyrrell to Austen Chamberlain, 6 Dec. 1926 (DBFP, ser. 1A, vol. ii, no. 319).
2 Reduction of estimates for Secret Services, memo by Churchill, 19 Mar. 1920 (Lloyd George papers, F/9/2/16).
3 Richard Ullman’s magisterial Anglo-Soviet Relations remains the best single treatment of this complex history.
4 Lockhart to Gregory (FO), 2 May 1919 (TNA, FO 371/4017); for Ransome, see Brogan, Arthur Ransome.
5 Dukes, Story of ‘ST 25’, 31-2; ‘Affairs in Russia’, report by ST/25, 30 Apr. 1919 (quoted in Story of ‘ST 25’, 360-74).
6 Agar’s own account is in Baltic Episode; Dukes’s Story of ‘ST 25’ differs in some details.
7 Quoted in Agar, Baltic Episode, 82.
8 Ferguson, Operation Kronstadt provides a fictionalised narrative of these events, with a shrewd commentary on operational matters.
9 There is an account of this episode in Bennett, Churchill’s Man of Mystery, 43-4.
10 Note by Walford Selby (FO), 5 Mar. 1919 (TNA, FO 371/3962). Twelve of Reilly’s despatches survive in this file.
11 Crowe to Curzon, 28 Dec. 1921 (Gilbert, Churchill, iv, companion part iii, pp. 1703-4).
12 There are accounts of the Trust, Savinkov and Reilly’s fate in Spence, Boris Savinkov, and Cook, Ace of Spies.
13 For MI5’s debriefing of Krivitsky, see Andrew, Defence of the Realm, 264-8.
14 Report of interdepartmental committee, Aug. 1921 (IOR, L/P&S/886); Foreign Office Confidential Print 11861, ‘Violations of the Russian Trade Agreement’, 1921 (some of these papers are also printed in DBFP, 1st ser., vol. xx).
15 ‘Classification of reports’, c. 10 May 1922 (Lloyd George papers, F/26/1/30).
16 Bennett, Churchill’s Man of Mystery, 44-5.
17 Nicholson (under the pseudonym John Whitwell) wrote a lively memoir, British Agent, published in 1966.
18 Landau, All’s Fair, 227-34.
19 Foley army service record (TNA, WO 374/24816); see also Smith, Foley.
20 Eastern summary no. 1034, 6 Jan. 1923 (IOR, L/P&J/12/116, which also contains much additional SIS reporting during the Lausanne conference);