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22 Sinclair was wrong about this, as Hitler did not approve plans for the invasion of Czechoslovakia until 30 May. See Andrew, Secret Service, 392-4. For a valuably sustained assessment of British intelligence relating to Hitler personally, see Winter, ‘British Intelligence’.
23 ‘What should we do?’, 18 Sept. 1938 (TNA, FO 371/21659).
24 Moravec’s version is in his memoir, Master of Spies, ch. 12.
25 ‘Germany: factors, aims, methods, etc’, enc. with Sinclair to Jebb, 21 Dec. 1938 (TNA, FO 1093/86); Cabinet Committee on Foreign Policy, ‘Possible German Intentions’, memo by the Foreign Secretary, 19 Jan. 1939 (FP(36)74) (TNA, CAB 27/627).
26 Cabinet minutes, 30 Mar. (TNA, CAB 23/98/16(39)); FO tel. to Berlin and Rome, 9 May and ‘Bogus Cabinet decision’, 7 July 1939 (TNA, FO 1093/87).
27 Darwin diary, 22 Aug.; Darwin to Sibyl Darwin, 23 Aug. 1939 (Darwin papers, 62/218/1, box 1).
28 The history of the Industrial Intelligence Centre, and Morton’s part in it, is very reliably covered in Bennett, Churchill’s Man of Mystery, 135-75.
29 Undated note, with Vivian to Medlicott (APOC), 13 Aug. 1931 (BP Archive, arc Ref 129910).
30 Sinclair to Crowe, 17 May; minute by Hankey, 21 May 1932 (TNA, CAB 127/371).
31 Cohen, TS memoir, 1900-84 (Cohen papers).
32 Ibid.
33 For Stephenson’s links with SIS (and Desmond Morton), see Bennett, Churchill’s Man of Mystery, 218-20.
34 Denniston, ‘Government Code and Cypher School’, 52; Andrew, ‘F. H. Hinsley and the Cambridge moles’, 34.
35 Property transfer documents from Land Registry (Leicester Office), Bletchley Park, Title no. BM677; Sinclair’s will, 4 Nov. 1938.
36 Denniston, ‘Government Code and Cypher School’, 68.
37 For Section D and origins of SOE, see Seaman (ed.), Special Operations Executive.
38 Compte-rendu de Mission à Londres, 30 jan.-1 fév. 1939 (SHD (Terre), 7NN2502, dr 250).
39 Hinsley, British Intelligence, i, 28-30.
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1 Darwin diary (Darwin papers, 62/218/1, box 1).
2 This notice was eventually circulated on 5 Oct.
3 The circulation list appended to this message did not include Poland, while Germany was crossed off.
4 According to the death certificate, Sinclair died of ‘I(a) Exhaustion, (b) Malignant Tumour of the spleen [and] II Broncho-pneumonia’.
5 The Times, 8 Nov. 1939; Darwin diary, 4 Nov. 1939 (1939 (Darwin papers, 62/218/1, box 1); Cadogan diary, 30-31 Oct., 4 Nov. 1939 (Cadogan papers, ACAD 1/8); Sinclair to Cadogan (and copies to Wilson and Ironside), 3 Nov. 1939 (PUSD papers, FCO).
6 Wilson to Cadogan, 7 Nov.; Cadogan to Sir R. Carter (Admiralty), Sir P. J. Grigg (War Office) and Sir A. Street (Air Ministry), 9 Nov.; Grigg to Cadogan, 14 Nov.; Kingsley Wood (Air Minister) to Halifax, [13] Nov.; Churchill to Cadogan, 18 Nov. (PUSD papers, FCO; a typescript copy of this letter dated 19 Nov. is in the Churchill papers, CHAR 19/2A, fols 102-3); Cadogan diary, 19 Nov. 1939 (Cadogan papers, ACAD 1/8).
7 The Times, 30 June 1945; note by Cadogan, 22 Nov. 1939 (PUSD papers, FCO).
8 Note by Cadogan, n.d. (PUSD papers, FCO); Cadogan diary, 16 Nov. 1939 (Cadogan papers, ACAD 1/8). For Dansey’s alleged ambitions, see Read and Fisher, Colonel Z, 195-200.
9 Cadogan diary, 27-28 Nov. (Cadogan papers, ACAD 1/8); note by Halifax, 29 Nov. (PUSD papers, FCO); John Darwin diary, 1 and 2 Dec. 1939 (Darwin papers, 62/218/1, box 1).
10 Liddell diary, 24 Nov. 1939 (TNA, KV 4/185).
11 For the crucial Polish role in informing British efforts to crack German codes, see Hinsley, British Intelligence, ii, part 2, 945-59.
12 Roskill, War at Sea, i, 100.
13 Roskill, Hankey: Man of Secrets, ii, 447.
14 ‘Summary of evidence supplied to Lord Hankey’, n.d.; Godfrey to Hankey, 2 Feb. (PUSD papers, FCO).
15 ‘Sources of information’, memo by NID, 2 Feb. 1940 (ibid.).
16 Though he can scarcely have been unaware of Buss’s criticisms of SIS, Menzies told Guy Liddell of MI5 that he thought Buss was ‘sound though perhaps not very convincing in his general manner’ (Liddell diary, 23 Feb. 1940, TNA, KV 4/185).