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22 Foot, SOE in France, 366.
23 Loxley to Peter Koch de Gooreynd (PA to CSS), 17 Apr. and 7 May, and reply 19 Apr. 1944 (PUSD papers, FCO).
24 Menzies to Loxley, 11 May; minute by Cavendish-Bentinck, 13 May; Thomas Bromley (FO) to Charles Peake (British Political Officer at SHAEF), 16 May 1944 (ibid.).
25 For SCUs, see Pidgeon, Secret Wireless War, 67-70.
CHAPTER 16: VICTORY IN EUROPE
1 See, for example, Service Clarence reports nos 131-59 (Jan.-July 1944) (Service Clarence papers, boxes 5-6).
2 Documents from the War Crimes Group’s inconclusive investigation of Chamier’s fate are in TNA, WO 309/248.
3 Directive for British Section of Allied Control Commission in Finland, 12 Oct. 1944 (TNA, FO 371/43196). See also Magill, Tasavalta tulikokeessa, 112.
4 For Krämer see above pp.514-15.
5 For developments in Yugoslavia see Hinsley, British Intelligence, iii, part 1, 137-62.
6 Smith, Sharing Secrets with Stalin, 41-3. This book is excellent for Anglo-Soviet intelligence relations generally.
7 Menzies to Churchill, 17 July 1941 (TNA, HW 1/14). See also, Hinsley, British Intelligence, ii, 59-66.
8 Kitchen, ‘SOE’s man in Moscow’.
9 It is possible (though there is no indication in the documents that this was suspected by SIS) that these reports were provided with the knowledge of the NKVD.
10 Vivian to Loxley, and reply, 13 and 20 Oct; minute by Sargent, 18 Oct. 1943 (PUSD papers, FCO).
11 Thomas Bromley (FO) to Arnold-Forster (SIS), 8 Sept. 1944 (ibid.).
12 For Garbo, see Howard, British Intelligence, v, esp. appendix 2, 231-41.
13 For Ustinov’s relations with women, see Ustinov, Klop, e.g. 174 and 178.
14 Cholmondeley was one of the brains behind the famous Operation ‘Mincemeat’ deception scheme in 1942 (Howard, British Intelligence, v, 89).
15 ‘Technische/Luftwaffe’ was the Abwehr division devoted to aircraft industry intelligence.
CHAPTER 17: ASIA AND THE END OF THE WAR
1 Publicised in the London Evening Standard, 16 Mar. 1942.
2 The provenance and significance of these signals was raised during the US inquiry into the Pearl Harbor disaster.
3 For the Japanese offensive against Thailand and Malaya, see Kirby, War against Japan, i, ch. 12.
4 Wilkinson War Journal, 7 Jan. 1943 (Wilkinson papers, WILK 1/1). For Wilkinson, see also Thorne, ‘MacArthur, Australia and the British’.
5 Note by Wilkinson, 15 Oct. 1943 (Wilkinson papers, WILK 3/2/1).
6 Thorne, ‘MacArthur, Australia and the British’, part I, 53 n. 1.
7 Cross, Red Jungle provides a personal account.
8 For SOE’s intelligence work see Aldrich, Intelligence and the War against Japan, 281-4, and for SOE generally see Cruickshank, SOE in the Far East.
9 Wilkinson War Journal, 9 July 1943 (Wilkinson papers, WILK 1/2 (closed)).
10 Beddington, ‘Memoirs’, p. 291 (Beddington papers).
11 For a general review of air operations, see ‘Brief history of clandestine air operations in the South East Asia theatre of war’, 1 June 1942-31 Aug. 1944; and ‘Air operations for clandestine organisations’, 1 June 1944-31 May 1945 (TNA, AIR 23/1950).
12 Garnons-Williams to Bowden-Smith and Mackenzie, 16 and 28 Apr. 1945 (TNA, HS 1/304); Aldrich, Intelligence and the War against Japan, 220-31.
13 ‘Co-ordination of British organisations in China’, 3 Apr. 1945 (TNA, CAB 81/128, JIC(45)111(O)(final)).
CHAPTER 18: POSTWAR PLANNING
1 Duff Cooper to Churchill & reply, 23 Mar. and 4 Apr. 1943 (PUSD papers, FCO).
2 ‘SOE and SIS co-ordination’, 15 May 1942 (TNA, CAB 121/305A, JP(42) 502).
3 G. C. Vickers and Capel-Dunn to Cavendish-Bentinck, 24 and 26 May 1943 (PUSD papers, FCO).
4 Diary of Sir Alan Lascelles, 3 Feb. 1945 (quoted in Hart-Davis (ed.), King’s Counsellor, 291); The Times, 8, 9 Feb. 1945.
5 Draft memo by Loxley, n.d. (c. June 1943) (PUSD papers, FCO).
6 Minute by Loxley, 30 Aug. 1943 (ibid.).
7 Bland to Cadogan, 13 Oct.; minute by Loxley, 7 Apr. 1944 (ibid.). Ivone Kirkpatrick was also originally included on the committee but because he was unable to attend meetings did not