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17 By this Godfrey meant all intelligence material gathered from wireless sources. See the discussion of definitions in Hinsley, British Intelligence, i, 20-1.
18 ‘The Secret Services. Inquiry by the Minister without Portfolio. First report’, 11 Mar.; Menzies to Jebb, 14 Feb. 1940 (TNA, CAB 127/376).
19 This was from the interception and assessment of German ‘use of radio aids for navigation and low-grade tactical transmissions for such things as weather and reconnaissance reports’ (see Hinsley, British Intelligence, i, 107-8).
20 Ibid., 91-2.
21 Hoare to Hankey and reply, 23 and 24 Apr.; Hankey to Menzies, 24 Apr. 1940 (TNA, CAB 127/375 (files retained by Cabinet Office)).
22 Hankey to Hoare, 24 Apr. 1940. (ibid.).
23 Hankey to Horace Wilson, 29 Apr.; Wilson to H. L. Ismay, 1 May 1940 (ibid.). The wartime development of the JIC will be covered in Michael Goodman’s forthcoming Official History.
24 Blake, ‘How Churchill became Prime Minister’, 273. For Morton’s position generally, see Bennett, Churchill’s Man of Mystery, chs 10-11.
25 First meeting of Secret Service Committee, 3 June 1940 (PUSD papers, FCO).
26 Henry Hopkinson (private secretary to PUS) to Cadogan, 9 Aug. 1940 (ibid.).
27 Minute by Eric Seal, 28 Sept. 1940 (TNA, PREM 4/80/3); Dalton diary, 29 Apr. 1941 (Dalton papers, DALTON/1/24). In Oct. 1940 Menzies stopped regularly sending Morton specific reports, providing him thereafter only with political and military weekly summaries.
28 Hinsley, British Intelligence, i, 156.
29 Menzies to Hopkinson, 2 Oct. 1940 (PUSD papers, FCO).
30 Minute by Cadogan, 7 Oct.; Bridges to Hopkinson (in which he quotes Ismay’s views), 10 Oct. 1940 (ibid.).
31 Cadogan to Bridges, 14 Oct. 1940 (ibid.).
32 Bridges to Cadogan, 13 Dec.; minute by Hopkinson, 14 Dec. 1940 (ibid.).
33 Second meeting of Secret Service Committee, 19 Mar. 1941 (ibid.).
34 Jebb to Cadogan, 13 June 1940 (ibid.).
35 Dalton, Fateful Years, 366. The formation of SOE is reliably covered in Seaman (ed.), Special Operations Executive.
36 This memo was endorsed by Menzies and Nelson on 4 May.
37 Memo by Dansey, 11 May 1943 (PUSD papers, FCO).
38 Selborne to Eden, 31 Mar. 1942, enclosing notes by Nelson and Jebb (ibid.).
39 Memo by Selborne, 22 Apr. (TNA, CAB 66/23, WP(42)170); Menzies to Peter Loxley (Foreign Office), 27 Apr.; unsigned note [probably by Loxley] to Cadogan, 13 May 1942 (PUSD papers, FCO); ‘S.O.E. and S.I.S. co-ordination’, memo by Joint Planning Staff (final version), 15 May 1941 (TNA, CAB 84/45, JP(42)502).
40 Petrie to Lord Swinton, 30 Jan. 1941, quoted in GC&CS, ‘Secret Service Sigint’, vol. 1 (TNA, HW 43/6).
41 Ibid.
42 There is a marvellously vivid and detailed account of Section VIII’s activities in Pidgeon, Secret Wireless War.
43 See Vivian to Menzies, 6 Jan. 1941 (reproduced in Cecil, ‘“C”’s war’, 184-7).
44 For Slocum see Richards, Secret Flotillas, i, ch. 3.
45 Cadogan to Menzies and Service Directors of Intelligence, 10 Feb. 1942 (TNA, ADM 223/851).
46 Cadogan to Menzies, 3 July 1945 (PUSD papers, FCO); Cecil, ‘“C”’s war’, 180; Reilly TS memoir (Reilly papers, Ms Eng. c. 6875).
47 Beddington, ‘Memoirs’, p. 276 (Beddington papers).
48 Cadogan (FO) to Menzies, 10 Feb. 1942, quoted in memo by DDMI(F), 7 Jan. 1945 (PUSD papers, FCO).
49 Biographical information on Kendall from ‘The adventurous senator’, People (Sydney, NSW), vol. 3, no. 21 (17 Dec. 1952), 38-41.
50 SIS evinced renewed interest in Ramsay in 1947, when his foreign-language skills might have been more useful. But he proved to be a recidivist and to ‘great disappointment’ it was learned that he was ‘in Leeds Prison and will be there until 1950. I am afraid, therefore,’ continued the file note, ‘that we cannot consider him further. I had so very much hoped that he had changed his ways of life and could be of some use to his country.’ Ramsay/Ramensky became something of a popular hero in Scotland, and has an entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
CHAPTER 11: THE EUROPEAN THEATRE
1 The Times, 4 Mar. and 21 Sept. 1939. There is a