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BLAO see Bureau Liaison Armée Occupée
Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire
see also Government Code and Cypher School
Blow, Operation (Burma 1944)
‘Bodden’ (Nazi’s infra-red surveillance
system)
Bolivia
Bolshevism:
Bolshevik revolution in Russia
importance of perceived threat of
see also anti-Bolshevism
Bond, James (fictional character)
Bonhoeffer, Pastor Dietrich
Bonn
Boodle’s (club)
books and lectures by agents and officers
Borcescu, Colonel Traian (head of Romanian counter-intelligence)
Bordeaux
Bortnowski, Leon (‘Perch’)
Bosley, Rex
Bothmer, General Felix von
Bottome, Phyllis (novelist)
Bowden-Smith, Philip ‘Bogey’
Bowlby, Cuthbert:
background and character
head of Mediterranean Section
head of Middle East Section
involvement in Africa Bureau project
reports on intelligence on Italy
views on:
Krämer case
liaison with American intelligence services
BOX see Bureau Liaison Armée Occupée
Boyce, Ernest
Boyle, Air Commodore Archibald
Boyle, David
Boyle, Joseph
Bracket, Operation (Burma 1943)
Brandon, Lieutenant Vivian
Brătianu, Ion
Brazil:
Communist attempt to topple Vargas regime
Second World War SIS operations
see also Rio de Janeiro
Brest
Brest-Litovsk, Treaty of (1918)
Brickwood, H.
Bridges, Sir Edward (later 1st Baron Bridges):
Cabinet Secretary
Treasury Permanent Secretary
British Council, as potential cover
British Expeditionary Force (First World War)
British Industrial Secret Service (Stephenson’s organisation)
British Overseas Airways Corporation, as potential cover
British Purchasing Commission (Second World War)
British Security Co-ordination (New York; BSC)
Brittany
Broadway Buildings (SIS offices 1926-64)
Bromley, (Sir) Thomas, Foreign Office private secretary
Brooke, Field Marshal Sir Alan (later 1st Viscount Alanbrooke)
Brooks, Tony
Brooman-White, Richard
Brousse, Charles (Vichy press attaché)
Browning, Freddie
Bruce Lockhart, John:
background and early career
head of No. 1 Intelligence Unit at Bari
head of Paris station
head of postwar German operations
views on:
Marshall-Cornwall
Menzies
misogynistic attitudes of SIS officers
Bruce Lockhart, (Sir) Robert:
envoy to Bolsheviks
on Ransome’s intelligence
Brun, Commandant (French mobilisation officer)
Bruneval raid (1942)
Brussels:
first permanent agents stationed in
liberation (1944)
SIS station
BSC see British Security Co-ordination Buchan, Colonel John (later 1st Baron Tweedsmuir)
Buchanan, Sir George, ambassador in Petrograd
Bucharest, SIS station
Buckmaster, Major Maurice (head of SOE French Section)
Budapest, SIS station
Buenos Aires
British embassy
SIS station
Bulgaria:
First World War
Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation
Nazi occupation
relations between British diplomats and SIS
SIS operations:
interwar
Second World War
postwar
Treaty of Neuilly
see also Sofia
Bulge, Battle of the (1944-45)
Bulge, Operation (Burma 1944)
Bureau Bijzondere Opdrachten (Dutch special operations service)
Bureau Central de Renseignements et d’Action (Free French intelligence service; BCRA)
Bureau Central Interallié (First World War Allied Central Office)
Bureau Inlichtingen (Dutch intelligence service)
Bureau Liaison Armée Occupée (Anglo-French-Belgian organisation; BLAO, later BOX)
burglars and burglary, use by agents
Burma:
Second World War
postwar
Burnett-Stuart, General Sir John (DMO&I 1922-26)
Bush House, Aldwych
Buss, Air Commodore Kenneth
Buyno, Mrs (Warsaw embassy staff member)
Bywater, Hector (‘H2O’; Cumming’s highest paid agent)
Caccia, Harold (later Baron Caccia)
report on postwar SIS
Cadogan, Sir Alexander (Foreign Office
Permanent Under-Secretary): attends Secret Service Committee meetings
commissioning of Bland report on postwar organsiation of SIS
recommends postwar absorption of SOE by SIS
relations with Menzies
role in appointment of Menzies as Chief
role in ‘Corby case’
role in establishment of SOE
succeeded as Permanent Under-Secretary by Sargent
support for Menzies in defence of Service chiefs’ criticism of SIS
views on: