Intelligence Personnel Named in ‘Inside Intelligence’

Stephen Dorril

Lobster Issue #15 (1988)

Intelligence Personnel Named in ‘Inside Intelligence’

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Intelligence Personnel Named in ‘Inside Intelligence’ See also:

Part 1: Forty Years of Legal Thuggery (Lobster 9)
Part 2: British Spooks “Who’s Who” (Lobster 10)
Philby naming names (Lobster 16)
First supplement to A Who’s Who of the British Secret State (Lobster 19)
Spooks (Lobster 22)

for Cohen, Brooman-White, De Haan, see Lobster 9 and Lobster 10.

EASTON, Air Comdr. Sir James Alfred KCMG (1956), CB (1952), CBE (1945) B.11/2/08
1926 RAF
1929-32 Served Northwest frontier, India
1935 Egypt
1937 Canada
1940 armaments advisor to Dept. of National Defence
1941 Group Capt.
1943 Dir. Air Staff Branch, Air Ministry, Royal Air Force Delegation, Washington
1945 MI6 Dept. Dir. (Air); then Asst. Chief
1958 Consul General, Detroit, USA
1968 Retired. Resident consultant on trade development of the Great Lakes area, USA
1975 Associate member, Overseas Advisory Associates Inc., Detroit

GIBSON, Col. Harold Charles Lehrs (Gibby)
CMG (1947)
B. 1897, D. 24/8/60 – suicide: official reason, money problems
1919-21 Constantinople
1922 Bucharest
1930 Riga
1933 Prague, head of station
1939 Istanbul, head of station
1945 Prague
1949 Germany
1951 Broadway, head of Russian section
1955 1st Sec. Rome, head of station – centre of Soviet operations
1958 retired: member RIIA
Married two Russian exiles. His brother Archie did similar work running agents behind the Iron Curtain: 1940, ISLD Middle East

RAYDON, Major-General (Joseph) Charles
CB (1948) DSO (1940) OBE
Sandhurst
B. 1899
1914-19 Irish Guards
1938 Mil. Asst. to Sec.of State for War
1939 Col. Irish Guards
1942 Vice-Chief of Combined Operations Staff
1944 Command 1st Brig. Guards, Italy
1944-45 British Jnt. Services Mission, Washington
1946-47 Brit. Army Rep. Jnt Chiefs of Staff, Australia
1948 Chief of Int. Division, Control Commission, German
1951 Retired
MI6 Dir. of Finance and Admin: Senior Personnel Officer
1958 Retired

ISHAM, Sir Gyles
B.31/10/03, D.29/1/76
Magdalen College, Oxford
Beefsteak Club
President, Oxford Union: leading actor
1939 Irish Rifles (TA) London
1940 2nd Lt. KRRC Egypt
1941 8th Army
1943 GSOI (Intelligence) HQ 9th Army
1944 War Office
1945 Defence Security Officer (DSO) MI5, Palestine
1946 Demobbed Lt.Col. MI6
1950 Contested (for Cons.) Kettering
1952 Deputy Lt. Northants
1958-59 High Sheriff

MENZIES, Maj. Gen. Sir Stewart Graham
KCB (1951) KCMG(1943) CB (1942) DSO MC (1914)
B.30/1/1890, D.29/5/68
Whites, St. James
1909 Grenadier Guards
1910 Life Guards
1915 Int. Officer to General Haig
1919 MI6
1939 Chief of MI6
1951 retired

MILNE, Ian Innes
CMG (1965), OBE (1946)
B. 16/6/12
Christ Church, Oxford
1935 Advertising
1940 Lt. Col R.E.
1946 MI6
1948 2nd Sec. Teheran, Head of Station
1951 FO
1955 1st. Sec Berne
1956 FO
1960 lst Sec Tokyo
1963 FO
1968 Retired
1969 Senior Clerk, House of Commons
1976 Retired
(There were two Milnes, brothers, and they get confused. Sometimes referred to as Tim and Tony)

MILNE, Tim
1940 MI6 Sect. V (Iberia) under Philby
1948 Dept. Head R5, Staff Officer, worked with local CIA rep.
1959 Witness at Philby’s wedding
1962 Beirut

OLDFIELD, Sir Maurice
CCMG (1978) KCMG (1975) CMG (1964) CBE(1956) MBE (1946)
B.16/11/15, D.11/3/81
Manchester University
Athenaeum (committee member)
1941-46 Int. Corps Lt Col SIME Cairo (MI5)
1947 FO Section 9 Control Commission Germany; control for Otto John
1950 2nd Sec. Singapore (Office of Commissioner General)
1953 FO
1956 1st Sec. Singapore, Dept. Head of Station
1959 FO
1960 Counsellor, Washington, Head of Station
1973 Chief of MI6
1977 Retired
1978 Fellow of All Souls, Oxford
1979 Recalled by Thatcher: Sec. and Int. Co-ordinator, Northern Ireland
1980 retired

PERKINS, Col. Harold (Perks)
Prague University
Merchant Navy Officer (Master Mariner)
Owner of a steel mill in Poland
1939 Mil. Int. (Research) MI (R)
1940-45 SOE Responsible for operations in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary. Retained close links with Polish emigre groups.
1946 operations against Jewish emigration to Palestine
1949 Albanian operation (planning) – an ‘operational wizard’

RANSOM, Charles Frederick George
CMG (1956) OBE (1950)
B.9/7/11
University College London
1936 Schoolmaster, lecturer
1940 York and Lancaster Regt., Italy
1946 FO MI6 section R5 (investigation of Communism)
1958-61 1st. Sec. Rome
1966-67 FO; Supernumerary fellow, St. Antony’s College, Oxford
1972 Historical Section, Cabinet Office
1973-74 Dir. Centre of Cont, European Studies, University of Sussex
Joint author of British Intelligence in the Second World War (HMSO)

ROBERTS, Brig. C. Douglas
1914-18 Royal Artillery
1919 ADC to Gen. Pierrie Wrangel in the White Russian Army campaign against the Bolsheviks. Timber trade in Finland and Russia. (E. and A. Harriman)
1940 Defence Security Officer (DSO) MI5, Istanbul
DSO Beirut
DSO Syria
Head of SIME (MI5)
1946 MI6
1947 ?Head of Section 9

SILEM Bobby
1948 ‘an older officer’: is this, in fact, SILLEM, Captain John
1939 Riga
1940 Stockholm
1952 FO Security Dept

SINCLAIR, Maj . Gen. Sir John Alexander (Sinbad)
KCMG (1953) CB (1945) OBE (1940)
B. 29/5/1897, D. 22/3/77
1914-16 Midshipman Royal Navy
1918 RMA Woolwich
1919 RFA
1929 Adjutant HAL
1932-35 Staff College
1938-39 Instructor Staff Coll., Lt.Col
1941 Deputy Dir. Military OPS BGS South Eastern Command
1942 CRA 1st Division DCGS Home Forces
1943 MGGS Home Forces
1944-45 Dir. Military Intelligence
1952 Chief of MI6
1956 Retired – displaced following Crabb affair

SLOCUM, Cpt. Frank Alexander
CMG (1953) OBE (1935)
B.30/9/1897, D. 22/5/82
Gonville and Caius Coll. Oxford
1914-18 Royal Navy, Grand Fleet
1920 2nd Lt. destroyer, Home Fleet
1931 Persian Gulf and Med.; R.N. Staff College
1935 Staff of Tactical School
1937 MI6
1939 Dept. Dir. Ops. Div. Admiralty
Asst. Chief Staff Officer (ACSO) MI6
1940 Auxiliary patrol flotillas. In charge of MI6 private navy.
1946 Chairman Intelligence Co-ordination staff
1954 1st Sec (visa) Oslo
1956 retired; trials captain for contract built ships

VANDEN HEUVAL Count (Maj.) Frederick (Fanny)
CMG (1945) OBE(1918)
B.24/11/1885, D.25/4/63
1914-18 Maj. European war worked for MI6; Dir. Eno’s Fruit Salts Ltd.
1938 part of Claude Dansey (MI6) Z-network
1940 Vice consul Zurich; Vice consul Geneva
1941 Press attache, Berne, head of station. Dansey’s principle Lt. in Europe
1945 Controller Central Europe
1947 Rome, head of station; FO, ran journalist agents

YOUNG, Rollo
1949 Malta and FO: Albanian operation

YOUNG, George Kennedy
CB(1960) CMG(1955) MBE(1945)
B.8/4/11
1936 editorial staff, Glasgow Herald
1938 British United Press – pre war MI6
1939 commissioned Kings and Scottish Borderers
1941 despatches East Africa
1943 specially employed list, Italy and West Europe
1944 Rome
1946 Vienna. Berlin correspondent. BUP, FO
1949 Economic relations dept. FO; Cyprus – part of the Albanian operation
1951 Head of Middle East desk, Cairo. BREO Cyprus. Operations against Iran
1953 attached MOD. Specialised in ‘economic and defence intelligence’
1956 Operation Struggle against Syria. Middle East Director of Production. Assassination attempts against Nasser. Deputy Chief
1960 Under-Sec.
1961 Retired. Kleinwort Benson Ltd til 1976
1969 President, Nuclear Fuel Finance SAEASTON, Air Comdr. Sir James Alfred KCMG (1956), CB (1952), CBE (1945) B.11/2/08
1926 RAF
1929-32 Served Northwest frontier, India
1935 Egypt
1937 Canada
1940 armaments advisor to Dept. of National Defence
1941 Group Capt.
1943 Dir. Air Staff Branch, Air Ministry, Royal Air Force Delegation, Washington
1945 MI6 Dept. Dir. (Air); then Asst. Chief
1958 Consul General, Detroit, USA
1968 Retired. Resident consultant on trade development of the Great Lakes area, USA
1975 Associate member, Overseas Advisory Associates Inc., Detroit