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12 Russia committee meeting, 25 Nov. 1948 (TNA, FO 371/71687, RC(48)16). The context of British policy-making on special operations against Communist states is usefully outlined in Aldrich, Hidden Hand, ch. 6.
13 ‘Communist action in Albania’, memo by I. F. Porter, 3 Feb.; Sargent to Menzies, 18 Feb.; Menzies to Sir William Strang (FO), 4 Mar. 1949 (PUSD papers, FCO).
14 Strang to Menzies, 28 Apr.; FO minutes, May; ‘Albanian plan’, 16 June; report on Operation Valuable, Dec. 1949 (ibid.).
15 Minute by A. Rumbold, 15 Nov. 1949 (ibid.).
CHAPTER 22: SIS: LEADERSHIP AND PERFORMANCE OVER THE FIRST FORTY YEARS
1 Churchill, World Crisis, 406.
2 The Times, 2 June 1915; Walter Kirke, ‘Lieut.-Gen. Sir George M. W. Macdonogh’ (c. July 1947) (Kirke papers (IWM), WMK 12, folder VI).
3 The relevant records are in TNA, ADM 116/1265/B.
4 Menzies to Wilson, 6 Sept. 1940 (PUSD papers, FCO).
5 Knoblock, Round the Room, 257.
6 Williams, World of Action, 335-6.
7 Dukes, Story of ‘ST 25’, 35.
8 Knoblock, Round the Room, 257. From 1910 to 1914 eight issues a year of Le Nu au Salon par Georges Normandy (continuing a series initiated by the French poet Armande Silvestre in the 1880s) were published in Paris, containing reproductions of ‘tasteful’ pictures and sculptures of nude women, few of them by artists of the first rank.
9 A couple of entries in Walter Kirke’s diary, at a time when Cumming felt keenly under assault from the military authorities, are the only suggestions that he might have been out for ‘self aggrandisement’ (27 May and 23 July 1916, quotation from 27 May) (Kirke papers (IWM), 82/28/1).
10 Secret Service Committee 1931, notes of meetings (27 Apr., 11 and 22 June) (TNA, FO 1093/74).
11 Menu cards and associated papers, 16 Aug. 1928 and 18 July 1935; Noble to Sinclair, 19 July 1935 (Sinclair papers MS 81/091, scrapbook vol. 1).
12 O’Halpin, Head of the Civil Service, 95.
13 Trevor-Roper, Philby Affair, 72.
14 Howarth, Intelligence Chief Extraordinary, p. 115.
15 Beddington, ‘Memoirs’, p. 276 (Beddington papers).
16 TS memoirs, fols 207-9 (Reilly papers, MS. Eng. c. 6918).
17 Cadogan diary, 5 Nov. 1942 (Cadogan papers, ACAD 1/11).
18 TS memoirs, fol. 213 (Reilly papers, MS. Eng. c. 6918).
19 Rivet diary, 12-24 Dec. 1942, quoted in Rivet, Carnets secrets 1936-1944.
20 Cecil, ‘“C”’s war’, 181; Cadogan diary, 7 Dec. 1944 (Cadogan papers, ACAD 1/11); Winterbotham, Ultra Secret, p. 99); Paillole, Services spéciaux, 429-34.
21 This argument is advanced (for example) in Trevor-Roper, Philby Affair, 73-4.
22 The 1941-2 organisation of GC&CS is covered in Hinsley, British Intelligence, i, 271-4; ii, 21-7.
23 A. M. Turing et al. to Churchill, 21 Oct.; minutes by Churchill and Ismay, 22 Oct. and 19 Nov. 1941 (TNA, HW 1/155). Documents in the SIS archive show Menzies himself (before the code-breakers’ letter to Churchill) appealing to higher authority to secure priority equipment and accommodation for Bletchley Park.
24 Hinsley, British Intelligence, iii, part 1, 461. Menzies’s reorganisation was (curiously) drafted on the back of a racehorse sales catalogue dated 9 Sept. 1926 (TNA, HW 14/27).
25 Trevor-Roper, Philby Affair, 73.
26 Minute by Hayter, 30 Apr. 1949 (PUSD papers, FCO).
27 Minutes by Caccia, Aubrey Halford, Hayter and Strang, 2, 17 May, 5, 7, 8 and 14 July 1949 (ibid.).
28 He quoted this in a memo of 14 Feb. 1940.
29 670 officers; 900 ‘secretaries and clerks’; 800 ‘others’.
Bibliography
PUBLIC ARCHIVES
(a) United Kingdom
India Office Records (IOR), British Library.
United Kingdom National Archives (TNA), Kew, England, coded as follows:
ADM: Admiralty
AIR: Air Ministry
ASSI: Assizes records
CAB: Cabinet Office
CO: Colonial Office
CRIM: Central Criminal Court
DEFE: Ministry of Defence
FO: Foreign Office
HO: Home Office
HS: Special Operations Executive
HW: Government Communications Headquarters
J: Supreme Court of Judicature
KV: Security Service
MUN: Ministry of Munitions
PREM: Prime Minister’s Office
T: Treasury
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