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31 Secret Service Committee report, 1 Dec. 1925 (TNA, FO 1093/69).
32 Andrew, Secret Service, 316; James (ed.), Memoirs of a Conservative, 381-2.
33 Secret Service Committee, 2nd, 6th and 8th meetings, 2, 17 and 24 Mar. 1925 (TNA, FO 1093/67-8).
34 Secret Service Committee, 1st and 2nd meetings, 11 and 22 Mar. 1927 (TNA, FO 1093/71).
35 Note, 31 Mar. 1927 (TNA, KV 3/15).
36 Memo by Sinclair, 28 June 1927 (TNA, FO 1093/73). There is an excellent account of the Arcos raid in Bennett, Churchill’s Man of Mystery, 94-106.
37 Andrew, Defence of the Realm, 154-6.
38 Sinclair to Tyrrell, 26 May; memo by Sinclair, 28 June 1927 (TNA, FO 1093/73); Secret Service Committee, 3rd and 4th meetings, 24 and 30 June 1927 (TNA, FO 1093/71).
39 The Macartney case is fully covered in Bennett, Churchill’s Man of Mystery, 107-16. For Soviet work against British targets between 1917 and 1929 see Madeira, ‘British official and Intelligence responses to Soviet subversion’, and Madeira, ‘Moscow’s interwar infiltration’.
40 Bennett, Churchill’s Man of Mystery, 136-49.
41 Undated note re Edwardes; note by Harker, 1 Aug. 1928 (TNA, KV 2/1016 and 2/989).
42 Minute by ‘WHP’, 5 Aug. 1925; note of telephone conversation with Maj. Morton, 19 Mar. 1926 (TNA, KV 2/2317).
43 Andrew, Defence of the Realm, 123-4.
44 Secret Service Committee 1931, notes of meetings (27 Apr., 11 and 22 June) (TNA, FO 1093/74).
45 Ibid.
46 Curry, Security Service, 102.
47 Thwaites to Wiseman, 22 Mar. 1919 (Wiseman papers, box 3, folder 85).
48 Another version of this story is in Williams, World of Action, 338.
49 Maugham, Ashenden, vii (Author’s Preface).
50 Ibid., ix.
51 ‘Ashenden’, Times Literary Supplement, 12 Apr. 1928.
52 Dukes, Red Dusk and the Morrow, vi, 4-5, 10; Tatler, 2 Apr. 1930, p. 35 (the series ran until 21 May).
53 Dukes, Story of ‘ST 25’, 35.
54 Mackenzie, First Athenian Memories, 75, 344.
55 Daily Telegraph, 27 Oct. 1932. Bywater wrote his own memoir (with H. C. Ferraby), Strange Intelligence, published in 1934.
56 Memo by J. A. Harker, 27 Oct. 1932 (TNA, KV 2/1271).
57 Mackenzie, My Life and Times: Octave Seven, 84-5; Mackenzie, Ægean Memories, 316; The Times, 8 Dec. 1932.
58 Draft proof of Major Valentine Patrick Terrel Vivian, n.d. (TNA, CRIM 1/630).
59 Mackenzie, My Life and Times: Octave Seven, 89-94; The Times, 25 Nov. 1932.
60 The Times, 13 Jan. 1933; Mackenzie, Ægean Memories, vii.
61 Mackenzie, Water on the Brain, 7, 16, 52-3, 85, 88-9.
62 Landau, All’s Fair, preface.
63 Landau, Spreading the Spy Net, 29; Landau, All’s Fair, 42-3.
CHAPTER 8: EXISTING ON A SHOESTRING
1 ‘Foreign Secret Service Finances’, 6 Dec. 1929, forwarded by Nevile Bland to the Treasury (TNA, CAB 127/367).
2 Secret Service Vote (TNA, T 160/787).
3 Secret Service Committee, 2nd meeting, 24 Mar. 1922 (TNA, CAB 127/359).
4 In 1932 $100 was worth approximately £28.50. By 1934 this had fallen to approximately £20.
5 ‘British espionage in the U.S.’, 15 Feb. 1921 (NARA, MID 9944-A-178).
6 Polk Diary, 16 Mar. 1920 (Polk papers, HM47 microfilm); Jeffreys-Jones, American Espionage, 129-30.
7 It is impossible to verify this as the report itself has not survived.
8 Lovestone later moved politically to the right and became a fervent anti-Communist.
9 Liddell to Borum, 20 Oct.; Hickerson to Herschel V. Johnson (US embassy London), 9 Nov. 1937 (NARA, RG84, box 1A, file 800B).
10 For the British end of this case, see TNA, KV 2/193-4. See also Andrew, Defence of the Realm, 210.
11 ‘Liaison with the United States Government Intelligence organisations’, memo by Capt. Liddell, Mar.-Apr. 1938 (Vansittart papers, VNST II 2/21).
12 For Rutland, see Best, ‘Intelligence, diplomacy and the Japanese threat’, 86-8.
13 The context of British interests and intelligence in the region is ably explored in Best, British Intelligence and the Japanese Challenge, and Best, ‘“We are virtually at war with Russia”’.
14 Reduction of estimates for Secret Services, memo by Churchill, 19 Mar. 1920 (Lloyd George