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21 Menzies-Lainey correspondence, Mar.-July 1925 and May-Aug. 1926 (SHD (Terre), 7NN2248, dr 1034; and 7NN3270, dr 6).
22 For notes of Dunderdale’s service, see TNA, ADM 337/128 and 137/2296. Examples of his reports survive in ADM 137/1735 and 1752-3; Lycett, Ian Fleming, 112, 114, 223.
23 The IPI file on Bajanov (‘Bazhanov’) is in IOR, L/P&J/12/359; Sunday Telegraph, 19, 26 Sept. and 3 Oct. 1976; see also Bazhanov, Bazhanov and the Damnation of Stalin.
24 Lycett, Ian Fleming, 31-8.
25 The challenges to British imperial interests in the region are covered in Jeffery, British Army and the Crisis of Empire.
26 Cumming to Sir Malcolm Seton (India Office), 2 Feb. (IOR, L/MIL/7/18813); Woollcombe (SIS) to Bland, 2 Oct. 1922 (TNA, FO 371/9945). For an overview, see Ferris, ‘“Far too dangerous a gamble”’.
27 Ferris, ‘“Far too dangerous a gamble”’; SIS Eastern Summary no. 1031, 6 Jan. 1923 (IOR, L/P&J/12/127).
CHAPTER 7: DOMESTIC MATTERS
1 Secret Service Committee report, 1 Dec. 1925 (TNA, FO 1093/69).
2 Note on ‘control of interception’, n.d. [c. 1924] (TNA, WO 32/4897).
3 History of MI1(b) (TNA, HW 7/3 5).
4 Curzon to Walter Long (First Lord of the Admiralty), 24 Mar.; minute by Sinclair, 28 Mar.; minutes of conference held at the FO, 29 Apr. 1919 (TNA, ADM 1/8637/55).
5 ‘Code and Cypher School’, memo by Lord Curzon (C.P. 3105), 3 July 1921 (Curzon papers, Mss Eur. F.112/302). This important memorandum is reproduced in full in Jeffery, ‘Government Code and Cypher School’.
6 Curzon to Lee, 25 Apr.; and reply 23 May; minute by Lee, 2 May 1921 (TNA, ADM 1/8637/55 and HW 3/38). Details of the transfer are in TNA, FO 366/800.
7 Report of Inter-Service Directorate Committee, 9 Apr. 1923; note on ‘control of interception’, n.d. [c. 1924] (TNA, WO 32/4897).
8 Diary of Sir Henry Wilson, 17-18, 31 Aug., 1 Sept. 1920 (Wilson papers); Churchill to Curzon, 28 Aug. 1920 (Curzon papers, Mss Eur. F. 112/215); The Times, 19 Aug. 1920; Andrew, ‘British Secret Service’; and Jeffery, ‘British military intelligence’.
9 Ferris, ‘Road to Bletchley Park’, 67-8; for Robert Vansittart’s use of signals intelligence material, see Ferris, ‘“Indulged in all too little”’, 133-6.
10 Sinclair to Crowe, 3 Nov. 1923 (TNA, FO 1093/66).
11 Denniston, ‘Government Code and Cypher School’, 49.
12 For Stott, see Bennett, Churchill’s Man of Mystery, 75-7.
13 Morris, Portrait of a Radical, 164; Wedgwood, Memoirs of a Fighting Life, 186.
14 I have drawn on Gill Bennett’s careful and definitive study, ‘A most extraordinary and mysterious business’, for the following account.
15 The Times, 25 Oct. 1924.
16 For Morton’s role, see Bennett, Churchill’s Man of Mystery, 79-85.
17 SIS to Gregory (FO), 9 Oct. 1924 (TNA, FO 371/10478).
18 Bagot report 1970 (quoted in Bennett, ‘A most extraordinary and mysterious business’, 37).
19 Minute by Crowe, 15 Oct. 1924 (DBFP, 1st ser., xxv, 434).
20 Bennett, ‘A most extraordinary and mysterious business’, 73-4.
21 Jones, Whitehall Diary, i, 299-300; Cabinet minutes, 31 Oct. 1924 (TNA, CAB 22/48/57(24)).
22 Letter from Robert Woollcombe, The Times, 18 Oct. 1977.
23 Cabinet minutes, 4 Nov. 1924 (TNA, CAB 23/48/58(24)).
24 Cabinet minutes, 12 and 19 Nov. 1924 (TNA, CAB 23/49/59 and 60(24)).
25 This memorandum and its context is lucidly discussed in Bennett, ‘A most extraordinary and mysterious business’, 81-3.
26 Kenneth Lyon to Derby, 20 Nov. 1924 (Derby papers, 920 DER (17) 29/7).
27 Bennett, Churchill’s Man of Mystery, 317.
28 Note by Baldwin, 10 Feb. (TNA, FO 1093/67); Secret Service Committee, 1st and 2nd meetings, 26 Feb. and 2 Mar. 1925 (TNA, FO 1093/68).
29 Sinclair to Nevile Bland (secretary to the committee), 18 Mar. (TNA, FO 1093/67); Secret Service Committee, 6th and 7th meetings, 17 and 19 Mar. 1925 (TNA, FO 1093/68).
30 Secret Service Committee, 8th and 10th meetings,