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21 Bland Report, 12 Oct. 1944 (PUSD papers, FCO).
22 Minute by Bridges, 14 Oct. 1946 (Cabinet Office papers).
CHAPTER 20: DEPLOYMENT AND OPERATIONS IN EUROPE
1 Requirements from SIS, 20 June 1946, JIC(46)57(O)Revise (TNA, CAB 81/133 (files retained in Cabinet Office)); Russia committee meeting, 9 Oct. 1947 (TNA, FO 371/66372); Bevin minute, 25 Nov. 1947, CM(47)90 (TNA, CAB 128/10).
2 A restaurant survives to this day at 8 Rue Tournefort.
3 The BEM (British Empire Medal) was a lower grade yet than the MBE.
4 Bland Report, 12 Oct. 1944 (PUSD papers, FCO).
5 Maj. A. E. E. Reade (War Crimes Unit) to Military Department, Judge Advocate-General, 19 Mar. 1948 (TNA, WO 309/248). Some of the results of Kopkow’s interrogation are in his MI5 file, TNA, KV 2/1500-1.
6 New York to London telegrams, 9 and 10 Sept. 1945 (PUSD papers, FCO).
7 Moscow to London: Venona decrypt of 1 Feb. 1965 (www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/17_Sept_1945_R5_m5_p1.gif (accessed 27 June 2008)); FO minutes, Sept. 1945 (PUSD papers, FCO).
8 Minutes by Cadogan, 11 and 19 Sept.; brief by Makins, 21 Sept. 1945 (PUSD papers, FCO). For the Council of Foreign Ministers meeting, see Documents on British Policy Overseas, ser. 1, vol.ii.
9 New York-London telegrams, 11-13 Sept. 1945; minutes by Cadogan and Bevin, 27 and 28 Sept. 1945 (PUSD papers, FCO).
10 ‘One cannot make an intelligence service with a parish priest.’ Menzies to Caccia, 8 Mar. 1946 (ibid.).
11 Caccia to Menzies, 12 Mar. 1946 (ibid.).
12 ‘Revised directive to Special Operations’, 18 Feb. 1946, COS(46)50(O) (TNA, CAB 80/99); FO circular tel., 25 Mar. 1946 (PUSD papers, FCO); Slessor to Sir James Robb (Vice Chief of the Air Staff), 21 Jan. 1948 (TNA, AIR 75/116, JCS 37). For Slessor, see Aldrich, Hidden Hand, 145-6.
13 See History of SOE’s German Directorate (TNA, HS 7/145-8). On ME42 and Bonzos, see TNA, HS 6/689-90, and Rigden, How to be a Spy, 10.
14 Report by Lewis, 1 July 1946 (USA, NARA, RG226, 214/4/29). For the long-term tasking of the Control Commission, see Donnison, Civil Affairs, 195.
15 Foreign Office minutes, Apr.-May, Sargent to Menzies and reply (with Hayter minute), 14 and 16 June 1948 (PUSD papers, FCO).
16 Minutes by Garvey and Hayter, 7 and 11 Nov. 1947 (ibid.).
17 Minute by Speaight and Cavendish-Bentinck, 7 and 9 Oct. 1944 (ibid.).
18 Minutes by Loxley and Cadogan, 10, 13 and 20 Oct.; Cadogan to Menzies, 18 Oct.; Cohen (for Menzies) to Bromley (FO), 24 Dec. 1944; Duff Cooper to Cadogan, 17 Oct. 1945 (ibid.).
19 Minute by Halford, 17 June; Hayter to Manzies, 28 June 1948 (ibid.).
20 HO minutes and Paris-London correspondence, 7 May-21 June 1948 (ibid.).
21 See, for example, ‘Underrättelstjänst och sabotage: Brittisk underrättelstjänst’ (Intelligence and sabotage: British intelligence service), vols 16 and 17 (Krigsarkivet, Swedish National Archives).
22 Aspects of Communist activity in late 1940s Norway, and their ramifications in Britain, are explored in Insall, ‘Relationship between the British and Norwegian Labour parties from 1945 to 1951’.
23 For the Norwegian side, see Riste, Norwegian Intelligence Service, 1-33.
CHAPTER 21: A WORLDWIDE SERVICE
1 Andrew, Defence of the Realm, 352-66; Walton, ‘British Intelligence and the Mandate of Palestine’.
2 For a cool and painstaking study of the problem, see Liebreich, Britain’s Naval and Political Reaction to the Illegal Immigration of Jews to Palestine.
3 Menzies to Hayter, 19 Dec. 1946, enclosing ‘Proposals for action’ (PUSD papers, FCO).
4 Hayter to Menzies, 24 Feb. 1947 (ibid.).
5 For press coverage of the affair, see The Times, 19, 21 July, and New York Times, 21-22, 30 July 1947.
6 The Times, 28 July, 8 Oct. and 16 Nov. 1948.
7 Corres. between Sargent and Menzies, Jan.-Feb. 1948 (PUSD papers, FCO).
8 The general context in the region is admirably covered in Baxter, Great Power Struggle in East Asia.
9 For Blake, see Andrew, Defence of the Realm, 488-91.
10 CX reports and War Office minutes, Feb.-Sept. 1949 (War Office papers retained in Ministry of Defence).
11 Moscow to London