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7 For the diplomatic context, see Woodward, British Foreign Policy, 12-15.
8 Despite these views, Hugessen was not beyond asking Gibson in Dec. 1943 if he could find a job in SIS for his daughter.
9 For Polish intelligence work in the Middle East and Central Asia, see Stirling et al. (eds), Intelligence Co-operation, chs 39-41.
10 Biographical information on Mounier from ‘Order of the Liberation website’ www.ordredelaliberation.fr (accessed 4 Oct. 2007).
11 For the LRDG see National Archives, Special Forces in the Desert War and Shelly, ‘British Intelligence in the Middle East’, 95-8.
12 For security organisation in the Middle East, see Hinsley and Simkins, British Intelligence, iv, 149-53.
13 See, for example, Menzies to Peter Loxley (FO), copies to Morton, 9, 11 and 19 May 1942 (PUSD papers, FCO).
14 The Times, 6 May 1941.
CHAPTER 13: WEST AND EAST
1 Stephenson has been the subject of much speculative writing. For a forensic assessment of the literature, see Naftali, ‘Intrepid’s last deception’, and Thomas Troy’s commentary thereon in Wild Bill and Intrepid, esp. 192-201.
2 Bennett, Churchill’s Man of Mystery, 193-4, 218-20 and 253-7, reliably traces Stephenson’s gradual incorporation into SIS. Troy, Wild Bill and Intrepid is also well researched, though there is no evidence in the SIS archives that Stephenson was ever known by the code-name Intrepid.
3 Federal Bureau of Investigation, ‘British Intelligence Service in the United States (Running Memorandum)’, 1 Jan. 1947 (Freedom of Information Act Release, 2009), p. 1.
4 Menzies to Jebb, 3 June 1940 (PUSD papers, FCO).
5 Menzies to Jebb, 21 June 1940 (ibid.).
6 Lothian to Halifax (Foreign Secretary), 10 and 11 July (TNA, FO 371/24237); note by Admiral Godfrey (DNI), 2 Aug. 1940 (TNA, ADM 223/84).
7 Seven months later Menzies asserted that it was Donovan who had made the ‘fifty pats on the back’ remark (Menzies to Hopkinson (FO), 2 Apr. 1941 (PUSD papers, FCO)).
8 Menzies to Hopkinson (FO), 30 Oct.; to Beaumont-Nesbitt (DMI), 22 Nov.; and to Churchill, 29 Nov. 1940; Churchill minute, n.d.; unsigned minute, n.d. (ibid.).
9 Menzies to Churchill, 26 Feb., and Churchill minute, 27 Feb. (TNA, HW 1/2); Menzies to Hopkinson, 2 Apr. 1941 (PUSD papers, FCO).
10 ‘History of the S.I.S. Division’ (FBI internal history, 3 vols) (NARA, RG 65, WW2 FBI HQ files, box 17).
11 Details of the arrangements for Donovan’s trip are in TNA, FO 371/26194; and Eden to Sir M. Lampson (Cairo) and Sir M. Plairet (Athens), 24 Dec. 1940 (TNA, FO 371/24263).
12 Troy, Wild Bill and Intrepid, 74-5.
13 Godfrey, ‘Memoirs’, vol. 5, part 1, 132-7 (Godfrey papers, MSS 319).
14 Quoted in Stafford, Roosevelt & Churchill, 213.
15 Report on visit to U.S.A., 30 Sept. to 11 Oct. 1941, by F. T. Davies, 15 Oct. 1941 (PUSD papers, FCO).
16 These events were rather more vividly described by Cynthia herself (written with the help of Montgomery Hyde) in France Dimanche, nos 899 and 900, 14 and 21 Nov. 1963. Hyde’s book The Quiet Canadian draws extensively on the BSC History and includes pictures of the Vichy cyphers.
17 For the Graf Spee action and ocean warfare in 1940 see Roskill, War at Sea, i, chs 7 and 14.
18 The company concerned did not (alas) trade in vacuum cleaners.
19 A microfilm copy of the letter was supplied to the embassy by an Associated Press journalist; see Rio embassy to Washington, 12 Nov. 1941 (NARA, M1515 Brazil microfilms, reel 71).
20 The wartime context and intelligence challenges in the Far East are very well covered in Aldrich, Intelligence and the War against Japan.
21 The Times, 23 Sept. 1940.
22 ‘S.I.S. in the Far East’, 15 July 1940 (TNA, ADM 223/496).
CHAPTER 14: THE TIDE TURNS
1 Peter Koch de Gooreynd (PA to CSS) to Peter Loxley, 3 Jan. 1944 (PUSD papers, FCO).
2 Menzies to Harold Caccia (FO), 20 Mar. 1946 (ibid.). The DGER was the newly created postwar Direction Générale des Études et Recherches.
3 Cecil, ‘“C”’s war’, 180.
4 Peake was a director of his family colliery business and also of