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15 Best, British Intelligence and the Japanese Challenge, 51-3.
16 ‘The Noulens case’, report by Vivian, 7 Mar. 1932 (TNA, FO 1093/97). See also Baxter, ‘Secret Intelligence Service and the case of Hilaire Noulens’.
17 Diary of Capt. Malcolm Kennedy, 18 Sept. 1931 (Sheffield University Library, available online: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/libdocs/kennedy_diaries.pdf (accessed 28 Aug. 2009)).
18 For the wider context of the Tait report [c. Apr. 1934], see Best, British Intelligence and the Japanese Challenge, 110-15.
19 The Mask decrypts of Comintern messages are in TNA, HW 17.
20 See Andrew, Defence of the Realm, 158-9.
21 See, for example, Time (Canadian edition), 25 Jan. (p. 31); Le Petit Journal, 7 fév.; Ottawa Citizen, 4 Feb. 1954.
22 For the family background, see Lympany, Moura.
23 For the divorce, see TNA, J 77/3691/9612.
24 The Times, 2 Aug. 1941. For the murder trial, see TNA, ASSI 26/310.
25 See correspondence in TNA, FO 366/966.
26 See ‘Misappropriation of immigration deposits by E A Dalton’, 1 Oct. 1936 (TNA, CO 733/322/8).
27 Note on the work of the Irish Section of the Security Service 1939-1945, Jan. 1946 (TNA, KV 4/9). See also O’Halpin (ed.), MI5 and Ireland, 20.
28 See O’Halpin, Spying on Ireland.
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1 Howard, Continental Commitment, 117. This work is an indispensable guide to British defence policy between the wars.
2 There is no reply from the French on file.
3 For Pollard’s background, see Macklin, ‘Major Hugh Pollard’.
4 The French side of the relationship is reliably covered in Forcade, La République secrète.
5 Paillole, Services spéciaux, 80-1.
6 Compte-rendu de visite de Menzies, 19 et 20 oct. 1937 (SHD (Terre), 7NN2701, dr 216).
7 Menzies to Rivet, July 1938, quoted in Aubin, ‘Contre-espionnage’, 263.
8 Compte-rendu de Mission à Londres, 30 jan.-1 fév. 1939 (SHD (Terre), 7NN2502, dr 250).
9 Papers relating to this case are in SHD (Terre), 7NN2425, dr 43180. See also Forcade, La République secrète, 221-6.
10 Porch, ‘French intelligence and the fall of France’, 37; Strong, Intelligence at the Top, 57-8; Hinsley, British Intelligence, i, 115.
11 See Hinsley, British Intelligence, i, appendix 1, 487-95; and the revised account in ibid., iii, part 2, appendix 30, 945-59.
12 Bertrand, Enigma, 60-1; see also Jan Stanisław Ciechanowski and Jacek Tebinka, ‘Cryptographic cooperation - Enigma’, in Stirling et al., Intelligence Co-operation, 442-62.
13 Hinsley, ‘British intelligence in the Second World War’, 218.
14 Winterbotham’s account of this is in his book Nazi Connection, 44-96. De Ropp told his own story of spying for the British in a series of articles in the Daily Mail, 28 Oct.-1 Nov. 1957.
15 Summary of secret information regarding German policy and rearmament received from Dec. 1934 to Mar. 1935 [draft?], 4 Mar. 1935 (TNA, FO 371/18844 (endorsed with comments by Winterbotham and Sinclair, dated 8 Mar.)); Phipps to Simon, 25 Mar., enc. naval attaché despatch of 19 Mar. 1935 (TNA, FO 371/18860); German Naval Construction, 22 July 1936 (TNA, CAB 4/24, CID 1252-B); ‘Germany: submarine construction’, 8 Apr. 1936 (ICF/118) (TNA, CAB 104/29). For the Industrial Intelligence Centre, see pp. 313- 14 below. See also Wark, ‘Baltic myths and submarine bogeys’, 66-7. This article illuminatingly discusses Admiralty use of secret intelligence in the 1930s.
16 Koutrik was employed by MI5 in 1940-1. See Andrew, Defence of the Realm, 245-6.
17 Benton, ‘ISOS years’, 365.
18 See, for example, Smith, Foley; and ‘Documents relating to the work of Frank Foley’ (FCO Historians’ brochure, 2004) (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/about-us/publications-and-documents/historians1/documents-from-archives/frank-foley/ (accessed 11 Jan. 2010)).
19 CSS tel. to Berlin, 9 Mar. 1939 (reproduced in ‘Documents relating to the work of Frank Foley’).
20 Cadogan diary, 3 Sept 1938 (Cadogan papers, ACAD 1/7).
21 Germany and Colonies, 3 Feb. 1938 (Woollcombe papers). On the same day the Cabinet Committee on Foreign Policy (which Chamberlain chaired) discussed