Forty Years of Legal Thuggery

Part One A to B

See also:

• Part 2: British Spooks “Who’s Who” (Lobster 10)
• Intelligence Personnel Named in ‘Inside Intelligence’ (Lobster 15)
• Philby naming names (Lobster 16)
• First supplement to A Who’s Who of the British Secret State (Lobster 19)
• Spooks (Lobster 22)

Georg Simmel said ‘The purpose of secrecy is above all protection. Of all the protective measures the most radical is to make oneself invisible’. Spooks make themselves ‘invisible’ under the protection of secrecy because they wish to avoid not, in reality, the enemy but the need for rational debate and responsible decision making. Instead they hope to avoid this by formulating policy and operating through those myriad of half committees of the intelligence empire which escape democratic control and constitutional legality. Their method of work is one of indirection, collusion and deceit. It is a world of conspiracy.

Malcolm Muggeridge, himself in wartime MI6, noted that secrecy to MI6 ‘is as essential … as vestments and incense to a mass, or darkness to a spiritualist seance’. In essence, secrecy in a corrupting influence. Irresponsible intelligence agencies, and the evidence over the years condemns MI6 and MI5, by their actions help to undermine the very ideals they claim they are protecting. By making visible their world of covert action – the practice of politics in which accountability is consciously diminished – we hope, however naively, to bring democratic rule to the forefront.

The following naming of names shouldn’t really require an introduction. But, no doubt, a few people will get all hot under the collar. It needs no apologies. Foreign policy has always been a legitimate field of study and so are its policy makers and servants. Here it’s pushed a little further because it attempts to be up-to-date and includes intelligence assets. But that’s unusual only because until fairly recently historians were either ignorant of the subject or timid in their approach to it. Dr Christopher Andrew, the leading historian on this area, has, for example, kept to the relative safety of the pre-war years.

Inevitably, this is changing as an increasing number of books and articles appear dealing with aspects of post-war British Intelligence.

All names and details in the following list were compiled from long hours of tedious research in the local reference library. No inside knowledge or breach of official secrets was needed or wanted. Truth and accuracy were the guides. There was no desire to mislead or falsely accuse. If there are any mistakes or omissions, please inform us. Deletions, corrections or additions will be noted, if necessary, in future editions of The Lobster.

Steve Dorril

(PHILBY)

In 1971 the Soviet press carried a number of articles in which former British Intelligence Agent Kim Philby named a number of MI6 officers, principally those who had served in Beirut and the Middle East in the 1950s and 60s.

‘Izvestiya‘ (2.10.71) and ‘Koduma‘ (13.10.71), (courtesy of the FBI).

A number of officers, mainly wartime, were also named in Philby’s book ‘My Silent War’ and in the various biographies written following his defection.

(WYNNE TRIAL)

At the trial of British Intelligence asset Greville Wynne, Moscow 1963, the prosecution named a number of MI6 officers. Wynne, who worked with MI5 during the war, was the principal contact with Oleg Penkovsky.

(BF)

“British Intelligence and Covert Action“, Jonathan Bloch and Patrick Fitzgerald (Brandon 1983), contains an appendix which lists ‘certain civil servants who have held official posts overseas since 1945’. The main text also contains the names of a number of intelligence personnel.

(WEST – W)

‘Nigel West’, Rupert Allason, has written a number of books on British Intelligence which have been extremely useful for this project.

Last year, when the government made noises about making the naming of intelligence agents illegal, West wrote an article in The Times condemning the BlochFitzgerald and Verrier books for publishing ‘names ‘ . He also cited the case of CIA officer Richard Walsh who was assassinated in Athens in the late seventies following, it is claimed, his naming by Philip Agee. In actual fact, this is a myth. The Intelligence Agencies showed that Walsh was badly at fault. He repeatedly ignored warnings that his residence had been ‘blown’ and was widely known as a ‘CIA house’. This was before he was named by Agee. The Walsh myth, created by the CIA, was used – according to William Corson (‘Armies of Ignorance‘, Dial Press) – to close down a congressional enquiry into US Intelligence Agencies.

(F)

French writer, Roger Faligot. There is some debate about Faligot’s reliability on ‘names’, but on the whole they appear to check out.

‘Britain’s Military Strategy in Ireland, The Kitson Experiment‘ (Brandon 1983), ‘Her Majesty’s Secret Service‘ (Temps Actuels 1982).

(CP)

Chapman Pincher. ‘Inside Out‘, ‘Their Trade is Treachery‘, ‘Too Secret, Too Long‘. Careful with names but they are there.

(Beth)

Nicholas Bethel. ‘The Great Betrayal‘ (London 1984). MI6 Officers involved in operations against Albania and around the Mediterranean.

(GCHQ)

Government Communications Headquarters. Operatives of GCHQ are named in the early editions of the Diplomatic List. Increasingly they are hidden, though they can be traced by reference to GCHQ outposts like Darwin (Australia). Also known as the ‘Government Code and Cypher School’ (GCCS)

(IRD)

‘Information Research Department’. Usually listed for major posts. Later transformed into the ‘Overseas Information Dept’ (OID) and, later still, the plain ‘Information Dept’.

(C)

Controversial. (Ex) Intelligence Officers named from a study of their career biography. MI5: such as Attached War Office (Ministry of Defence), Civil Assistant War Office, Lt Col Intelligence Corps, ‘Special Duties’ etc

Defence Security Officer or Security Liaison Officer on staff of the Security and Defence Departments of the Colonial and Commonwealth Relations Office.

MI6: Passport Control Officers. Visa posts. ‘Local Rank’. Attached to British Middle East Office (BMEO) – Cairo, Cyprus, Beirut. The Oman Research Bureau. British Forces HQ Hong Kong. Northern Ireland Office. A time with the Control Commission Germany, Austria, Trieste. The Middle East Centre for Arab Studies (MECAS). Unusual postings or secondments. Sometimes the Permanent Under-Secs Department Foreign Office, The Security Dept, Secondment to The Cabinet Office.

Officers spend around 15 years in the field and follow the normal diplomatic career structure. Counsellor FCO (MI6 Divisional Head), Counsellors at Washington, Paris, possibly Rome (operations against Soviet Bloc) and Singapore.

There are other indicators of an intelligence background, as you will find out. None are conclusive by themselves.

Books which proved useful:

• Diplomatic Lists 1945-85
  – The Foreign Office, The Colonial Office, The Commonwealth Relations Office. Now all combined into The Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
• Who’s Who 1981-84
• Who Was Who, Volumes V/VI/VII 1940-80
• The Times Obituaries Volumes I/II/III 1945-75
• Debretts and Burkes Peerage, and many other books on intelligence during the war.

ABRAMS, MARK ALEXANDER
B 27.4.06
LSE, REFORM
1933 RESEARCH DEPT LONDON PRESS EXCHANGE
1939 BBC OVERSEAS DEPT
1941 POLITICAL WARFARE EXEC AND SHAEF
1946-70 MANAGING DIRECTOR RESEARCH SERVICES LTD
1964- CHAIRMAN (EXEC COMM) POLITICAL ECONOMIC PLANNING

ACLAND, SIR ANTONY ARTHUR
KCMG (1982), CMG, KCVO (76)
B 12.3.20
CHRISTCHURCH COLL OXFORD
BROOKS
WW2 ROYAL NAVY (SUBMARINES)
1953- FOREIGN OFFICE (FO)AND OVERSEAS
1980 DEPUTY UNDER SEC OF STATE
1982 PERMANENT UNDER SEC OF STATE AND HEAD DIPLOMATIC SERVICE, CHAIRMAN JOINT INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE

ADAM, COL JOHN HUNTER
CBE (1946) CIE (33) OBE (18)
B 1.6.1882, D 9.5.58
MI5 (WEST)
1902 INDIAN POLICE
1918 INSPECTOR NW PROVINCE INDIA
1930-37 INSP GENERAL
1939 MI5 FIELD SECURITY POLICE
1943 DIRECTOR PORT SECURITY
1945 RETIRED

ADAMS, WALTER
CMG. (1952) OBE (45)
B 16.12. 06
UNIV COLL LONDON
ATHENAEUM
1942 POLITICAL WARFARE MISSION TO USA DEPUTY HEAD
1945 ASSIST DEP DIR-GEN POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE DEPT. FO
1946 SEC INTER UNIV COUNCIL FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE COLONIES
1955 PRINCIPAL UNIV COLL OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND
1967- DIR LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS

ALDRIDGE, JESSICA (JESSE)
MI6 (BETHEL)
1948 DEPUTY TO HAROLD PERKINS (ALBANIAN EPISODE)
1955 VICE CONSUL RIO GALLIGOS AND SANTA CRUZ, ARGENTINA
1965 FO

ALEXANDER, CONEL HUGH O’DONEL
CMG (1970) CBE (55) OBE (46)
B 19.4.09, D 15.2.74
KINGS COLL CAMBRIDGE
GCHQ
BRITISH CHESS MASTER
1939-40 BLETCHLEY WORKING ON ‘ULTRA’
1946 GCHQ
1971 RTD

ALLAN, JAMES NICHOLAS
CBE (1976)
B 22.5.32
LSE, ATHENAEUM
MI6
MI5 (IRISH TIMES 4.2.80)
1951-3 ARMY
1956 ASSIST PRINCIPAL COMMONWEALTH RELATIONS OFFICE (CRO)
1958 3RD LATER 2ND SEC PRETORIA, CAPE TOWN. HEAD OF STATION (HOS)
1959 PRIVATE SEC TO PARLIAMENTARY UNDER SEC
1961 1ST SEC FREETOWN
1964 NICOSIA
1964 CRO LATER FO
1969 HEAD OF CHANCERY PEKING
1971 LUXEMBOURG
1973 COUNSELLOR N IRELAND (NI) OFFICE. INVOLVED IN TRUCE WITH PROV IRA. CHIEF OF STATION
1976 COUNSELLOR FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE (FCO)
1978 HEAD OVERSEAS INFO DEPT (OID)
1979 GOVERNORS STAFF SALISBURY
1981 HIGH COMMISSIONER MAURITIUS

ALLASON, LT COL JAMES HARRY
OBE (1953)
B 6.9.12
WHITES, ROYAL YACHT CLUB
1932 ROYAL ARTILLERY
1939-44 INDIA BURMA
1953 RETIRED
1959 MP (CON)
1960-64 PARLIAMENTARY PRIVATE SEC TO SEC OF STATE FOR WAR
1974 RETIRED
FATHER OF ‘NIGEL WEST’ (RUPERT ALLASON)

ALLEN, DONALD GEORGE
CMG (1981)
B 26.6.30
MI6 (BF)
1948 FO
1949-51 HM FORCES
1954 HAGUE
1957 2ND SEC LA PAZ
1961 ASSIST PRIVATE SEC TO LORD PRIVY SEAL (63) AND TO MINISTER WITHOUT PORTFOLIO
1966 1ST SEC PANAMA
1969 FCO
1972 COUNSELLOR SECONDED TO NI OFFICE
1974 UK PERMANENT DELEGATION TO OECD, PARIS
1978 INSPECTOR DIPLOMATIC SERVICE
1980 ON LOAN TO OFFICE OF PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSION FOR ADMIN (OMBUDSMAN)
1982 DEPUTY TO ABOVE

ALLEN, BRIG HENRY ISHERWOOD (HARRY)
CB (1943) DSO (17)
B 18.11.1887, D 14.1.79
MI5 (W)
1914-18 ARMY FRANCE MIDDLE EAST
1922 ROYAL CORPS SIGNALS
1926-27 INDIA
1930-32 COMMANDER SCHOOL SIGNALS CATTERICK
1934 MILITARY MISSION IRAQ
1936 WAR OFFICE
1939 DIRECTOR D DIVISION
1945 MILITARY LIAISON OFFICER

ALLOT, ELIZABETH ROSEMARY
OBE (1972)
B 2.7.18
IRD
1945 ALLIED COMMISSION FOR AUSTRIA
1948 FO
1962 1ST SEC
1970s SOUTH AMERICA DESK IRD
1978 RETIRED

AMBLER, DENNIS BJ
MI6
1951 1ST SEC SINGAPORE
CHIEF OF STATION DURING 1950s AND 60’s

AMERY, JULIAN
B 27.3.19
BALLIOL COLL OXFORD, WHITES
1938 WAR CORRESPONDENT ‘THE TIMES’, SPANISH CIVIL WAR
1939 ATTACHE BELGRADE SECTION D (MI6)
WORKED WITH BRITANOVA NEWS (MI6 FRONT)
BULGARIA ROMANIA TURKEY MIDDLE EAST
1941 SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE (SOE) BALKANS
1945 CHURCHILL’S REP TO CHIANG KAI-SHEK
1948 HELPED SET UP ALBANIAN OPERATION
1950 MP (CON)
1957-58 WAR OFFICE
1958-60 COLONIAL OFFICE
1960-62 AIR MINISTRY
1960 HELPED REORGANISE OMAN ARMED FORCES (ORDER OF OMAN)
YEMENI OPERATIONS
1970s MET FNLA REPS IN HOUSE OF COMMONS.
MEMBER PRIVATE SPOOKS GROUP ‘THE PINAY CIRCLE’. CLOSE TO MI5\MI6
‘ROMANTIC VICTORIAN-STYLE IMPERIAL RIGHT-WING STRATEGIST PRO SOUTH AFRICA EEC ISRAEL ANTI US UN ARAB REVOLUTION CAPITAL PUNISHMENT (BROTHER HANGED) PROGRESSIVE ON LABOUR RELATIONS. WIFE CATHERINE DAUGHTER OF HAROLD MACMILLAN’
DIR SOUTH AFRICAN MINING COMPANIES: VAAL REEFS EXPLORATION AND MINING CO LTD, WESTERN DEEP LEVELS LTD. CONSULTANT SEDGEWICK FORBES OVERSEAS GROUP LTD, ADVISOR BANK OF CREDIT AND COMMERCE INTERNATIONAL.

ANDERSON, HUNTER JACKSON
B 20.11.18
GCHQ
1939-46 HM FORCES
1946 GCHQ
1947 FO
1958 KHARTOUM
1960 FO
1962 DELHI
1964 FCO
1971 ST HELENA

ANDREW, ROBERT JOHN
CB (1979)
B 25.10.28
KINGS COLL CAMBRIDGE\MERTON COLL OXFORD
MI5 (PHOENIX 5.8.83)
1947-49 INTELLIGENCE CORPS
1952 WAR OFFICE
1957 ASSIST PRINCIPAL
1963 MINISTRY OF DEFENCE
1965 1ST SEC
1967-70 DEFENCE COUNSELLOR UK DELEGATION TO NATO
1971 PRIVATE SEC TO SEC OF STATE FOR DEFENCE
1973 UNDER SEC CIVIL SERVICE DEPT
1975 ASSIST UNDER SEC OF STATE MOD
1976-83 DEP UNDER SEC OF STATE HOME OFFICE
1984 PERMANENT UNDER SEC OF STATE NI

ANNAN, LORD NOEL GILROY
OBE (1946)
B 25.12.16
KINGS COLL CAMBRIDGE, BROOKS
1939 CABINET OFFICE. WAR OFFICE
1940 BLETCHLEY. ACCESS TO ‘ULTRA’, INTELLIGENCE CORPS
1944 FRANCE INTELL STAFF SHAEF
1945-46 GSOI POLITICAL DIV OF BRITISH CONTROL GERMANY. GENERAL STAFF OFFICE, COMMANDER
1944-56 FELLOW KINGS COLL CAMBRIDGE
1956-66 PROVOST
1980 CHAIRMAN NATIONAL GALLERY

ARCHER, WING COMM JOHN OLIVER
CBE (1920) OBE (19)
B 22.9.1887, D 15.9.68
MI5 (W)
1915-18 ROYAL FLYING CORPS FRANCE EGYPT PALESTINE AND SOUTH RUSSIA
1926-30 COMMANDER NO 3 INDIAN WING
1940-46 MI5 LIAISON OFFICER WITH RAF
MARRIED JANE E A SISSMORE (ARCHER), MI5 SINCE 1930s. SENIOR OFFICER . HIGHLY REGARDED INTERROGATOR, EXPERT ON SOVIET ESPIONAGE, RECRUITED TO MI6 BY KIM PHILBY BELIEVED LATE 1944

ARNOLD, WING COMM HENRY
1949 MI5 SECURITY OFFICER AT THE ATOMIC ENERGY AUTHORITY

ARNOLD-FOSTER, COMMANDER CHRISTOPHER HUGH
CMG (1946)
B 9.12.1890, D 21.7.65
GARRICK
MI6 (W)
‘HIS FATHER’S DISPATCH BOX AT HIS SIDE, MONOCLE POISED.. AT THE DOOR STOOD HIS GOLD TIPPED MALACCA CANE’
1911 ROYAL NAVY
1918-19 ASSIST NAVAL ATTACHE WASHINGTON
1925-54 MEMBER STOCK EXCHANGE ‘LAWRENCE, KEEN AND GARDINER’
1939 REJOINED ROYAL NAVY, MI6 SECTION 3 (NAVAL)
1940 PRINCIPAL STAFF OFFICER
1942 ASSIST DIRECTOR NAVAL INTELLIGENCE
1945 RETIRED

ARNOLD-FOSTER, MARK
B 16.4.20
1939-45 ROYAL NAVY
1946 DEMOBBED LT
1948 BLOCKADED IN BERLIN
1954 ADMITTED (G 4.2.80) THAT HE HAD WORKED FOR BRITISH INTELLIGENCE, SMUGGLED A SPY INTO SOVIET UNION.
JOURNALIST. LATER GUARDIAN DIPLOMATIC EDITOR

ARRAN, LORD ARTHUR KATTENDYKE STRANGE DAVID ARCHIBALD GORE
B 5.7.10, D 23.2.83
BALLIOL COLL OXFORD
1939 ATTACHE BERNE
1940 ATTACHE LISBON (MI6)
1942 MINISTRY OF INFORMATION
1943 DEP DIRECTOR GENERAL DIV MIN OF INFO
1945 DIR OF SECRETARIAT CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFO
1949 JOURNALIST SUBSEQUENTLY DIRECTOR OF Daily Mail
MEMBER OF Z-1 (SPECIAL JOURNALISTS DEPT) OF MI6 (DAILY MIRROR 23.12.68)

ARTHUR, SIR GEOFFREY (GEORGE)
KCMG (1971) CMG (63)
B 19.3.20
CHRIST CHURCH OXFORD
1940-45 HM FORCES
1947 FO
1948 2ND SEC BAGHDAD
1950 ANKARA
1953-55 FO
1956-58 BONN
1959 COUNSELLOR CAIRO
1963 COUNSELLOR FO
1967 AMBASSADOR KUWAIT
1968 UNDER SEC OF STATE FCO
1970 POLITICAL RESIDENT IN PERSIAN GULF
INVOLVED IN COUP OMAN (OMAN IN THE 20TH CENTURY JE PETERSON LONDON 1978)
1972 VISITING FCO FELLOW ST ANTONY’S COLL OXFORD
1973 DEP UNDER SEC OF STATE FCO
1975 DIR BRITISH BANK OF MIDDLE EAST, MASTER PEMBROKE COLL
1980 SPECIAL ADVISER TO BOARD BANK OF ME

ASHDOWN, (PADDY) JEREMY JOHN DURHAM
B 24.2.41
HONG KONG UNI
‘ABLE, INTELLIGENT LEFT WINGER; PRO YOUTH, ANTI NUCLEAR, PRO-NATO MULTILATERALIST; INDUSTRIAL REFORMER, ‘SOMETIME’ CHINESE INTERPRETER…’
1959-71 MARINE OFFICER
1960s ROYAL MARINE COMMANDO WITH SPECIAL BOAT SQUADRON IN FAR EAST
1972 NORTHERN IRELAND, FCO
1974 1ST SEC BRITISH MISSION TO UN GENEVA
1976 EXEC OF NORMALAIR GARRETT (WESTLAND GROUP)
1979 CONTESTED YEOVIL
1983 MP (LIB)

ASHWORTH, ANTHONY CLAYTON
B 28.7.21
IRD
1941-62 HM FORCES
1962 FO
1963 1ST SEC (INFO) ADEN – INTELLIGENCE WORK
1968 DIRECTOR REGIONAL INFO OFFICE FOR SE ASIA, SINGAPORE – INVOLVED WITH CHINA NEWS SUMMARY
1972 POSTED TO NORTHERN IRELAND
c1980 PUBLIC RELATIONS ADVISER TO SULTAN OF OMAN

ASPIN, LESLIE
MI6 AGENT. HAD BEEN A SMUGGLER IN THE MIDDLE EAST. INVOLVED IN THE ANGOLA MERCENARY RECRUITING. SAW LITTLEJOHN AFTER HE ESCAPED. (THE KOVACS CONTRACT. LONDON 1976)

ASTLEY-RICHARDS, ROY
MI6 (NS 22.2.80)
1946 SPECIAL BRANCH RETIRED
1972 JOINED SECURITY FIRM DIVERSIFIED CORPORATE SERVICES LTD (DCS) AS A ‘SPECIAL CONSULTANT’
1977 LEFT DCS

ASTOR, HON HUGH WALDORF
B 20.11.20
MI5 (W)
1939 INTELLIGENCE CORPS LT COL EUROPE AND SE ASIA, ASSIST TO HOLLIS IN F DIVISION
1947 ASSIST MIDDLE EAST CORRESPONDENT ‘THE TIMES’
1948 DIRECTOR HAMBROS BANK
1956 BOARD OF TIMES NEWSPAPERS
1959 DEPUTY CHAIRMAN
1967 RESIGNED
1963 HIGH SHERIFF OF BERKSHIRE

ATTLEE, HEREWARD PATRICK LOVEDALE
B 1917
CHRISTCHURCH OXFORD
MI6 (PHILBY)
1939-45 HM FORCES
1946 TEMP ENGAGED FO
1947 2ND SEC ANKARA
1949 1ST SEC
1950 1ST SEC (COMM) ATHENS
1953 FO
1955 1ST SEC AND CONSUL MONTEVIDEO
1957 CHARGE D’AFFAIRS
1959 CARACAS
1960 FO
1962 UK MISSION TO THE UN NEW YORK
1964 1ST SEC FO
1965 RETIRED

ATTRIDGE, DEREK ANTHONY
B 12.6.41
GCHQ
1961 MINISTRY OF DEFENCE
1962 GCHQ
1965 FO
1967 ZAMBIA ZOMBA
1969 FCO
1970 SINGAPORE
1974 DARWIN
1975 FCO
1976 MUSCAT
1977 FCO

AULT, JOHN EDWIN MICHAEL
B 27.7.23
MI6 (NEW STATESMAN 4.3.83)
1942-7 HM FORCES
1949 CONTROL COMMISSION GERMANY
1952 FO
1954 SINGAPORE
1955 SECONDED TO COLONIAL OFFICE KUALA LUMPUR
1956 TRANSFERRED TO CRO 2ND SEC KUALA LUMPUR
1958 FO
1961 1ST SEC COMMISSIONER GENERALS OFFICE FOR SE ASIA, SINGAPORE
1963 FO
c1980 HEAD OF MI6 TRAINING SCHOOL FORT MONKTON
1983 HEAD OF OMAN RESEARCH BUREAU – MIDDLE EAST MI6 HQ

AUSTIN, RICHARD WL (DICKIE)
DIRECTOR OF RIO TINTO ZINC (AUSTRALIA) IN ASIA ALSO DOING WORK FOR MI6. RTZ INVOLVED IN DESTABILISATION OF WHITLAM’S GOVT

AYER, SIR (FREDDIE) ALFRED JULES
KT (1970)
B 29.10.10
CHRISTCHURCH OXFORD
ATHENAEUM, BEEFSTEAK
1940 BRITISH SECURITY COORDINATION NEW YORK
1945 ATTACHE PARIS
1959-78 PROF OF LOGIC NEW COLL OXFORD
1980 HONORARY FELLOW

BACON, MAJOR HERBERT H
MI5 (W)
1945- HEAD OF C DIVISION (SECURITY) IN CHARGE OF VETTING AND SECURITY WORK.

BACON, SIR RANULPH ROBERT MAUNSELL
KT (1966) KM (53)
B 6.8.06
1928 METROPOLITAN POLICE
1940 PROVOST SERVICE MIDDLE EAST
1943 COLONIAL POLICE SERVICE
1947 CHIEF CONSTABLE OF DEVON
1961 DEPUTY COMMANDER NEW SCOTLAND YARD
1966-81 DIRECTOR SECURICOR LTD
1968-75 MEMBER OF THE GAMING BOARD
1972-77 PRESIDENT GUN TRADE ASSOCIATION
1970-81 DIRECTOR AND CONSULTANT OF ‘INTERTEL’
INTERNATIONAL INTELLIGENCE INC – THE US SUPER PRIVATE SPOOK ORGANISATION

BADDERLEY, JOHN HALKETT
CMG (1970)
B 30.4.20, D 23.10.72
MAGDALEN COLL OXFORD
MI6 (B)
1940-45 COLDSTREAM GUARDS
1945 FO
1947 3RD SEC ATHENS
1949 FO ALBANIAN OP PLANNING
1952 OFFICE OF COMMISSIONER-GEN SINGAPORE (HONG KONG)
1953 2ND SEC
1954 RANGOON
1956 FO
1957 1ST SEC BRUSSELS
1959 FO
1970 COUNSELLOR FO
1972 COUNSELLOR WASHINGTON
DIED OF HEART ATTACK

BAGLEE, WILLIAM BRIAN
B 11. 8. 23
MI6 (C)
1942-49 HM FORCES
1950 CONTROL COMMISSION AUSTRIA
1955 BERLIN
1958 FO
1959 TEHRAN
1963 1ST SEC FO
1968 SECONDED TO MOD
1972- 1ST SEC FCO
RETIRED

BAGOT, MILLICENT
MI5 (W)
IN PRE-WAR MI5. A VETERAN ANTI-COMMUNIST.
HEAD OF E1 DIVISION DEALING WITH INTERNATIONAL COMMUNISM, 1945-

BALFOUR, MAJ DAVID
CBE (1960)
B 20.1.03
UNIVERSITIES OF PRAGUE, SALZBURG, ROME AND ATHENS
MI6
1939 KNOWN AS FATHER DIMITRI (THE MAN WHO WAS UNCLE. PETER BLYTHE, LONDON, 1975) ORTHODOX CATHOLIC PRIEST ATHENS
1940 ATHENS UNIVERSITY
1941 HM FORCES
1943 2ND SEC CAIRO (LIAISON WITH GREEK GOVERNMENT)
1945 1ST SEC CHARGE D’AFFAIRS ATHENS
1947 FO
1949 1ST SEC (ORIENTAL) TEL AVIV
1951 COUNSELLOR, CONSUL GENERAL SMYRNA
1952 IZMIT (TURKEY)
1955 CONSUL GEN GENOA
1960 CONSUL GEN GENOA
1963 RETIRED
1963 RE-EMPLOYED HEAD OF INTERPRETING AND TRANSLATION SECTION FO
1968 RETIRED

BALL, SIR (GEORGE) JOSEPH
KBE (1936) OBE (19)
B 1885, D 10.7.61
KINGS COLL LONDON
1913 BAR
1914 EUROPEAN WAR
1921 MI5 (CIVIL ASSIST TO MIL INTELLIGENCE)
1924 HEAD OF CONSERVATIVE CENTRAL OFFICE INTELLIGENCE DEPT
(RENAMED PUBLICITY DEPT)
1930-39 DIRECTOR CONSERVATIVE RESEARCH DEPT
1934-39 DEP CHAIRMAN NATIONAL PUBLICITY BUREAU
1940-42 DEP CHAIRMAN SECURITY EXEC – OVERSEEING THE INTELLIGENCE EMPIRE, PARTICULARLY MI5
CHAIRMAN CONSOLIDATED GOLD FIELDS OF SOUTH AFRICA AND TRANSVAAL ESTATES LTD
THERE ARE ALWAYS A FEW KEY INDIVIDUALS WHO PREFER THE SHADOWS TO THE GLARE OF PUBLICITY. THEY PULL THE STRINGS BUT ARE RARELY MENTIONED IN THE HISTORY BOOKS. ONE SUCH FIGURE IN THE 1930s WAS SIR JOSEPH BALL.
BALL WAS CHAMBERLAIN’S LINK WITH THE INTELLIGENCE SERVICES. HE WAS ABLE TO USE HIS INTELLIGENCE CONNECTIONS FOR THE BUGGING OF POLITICIANS AND THE STEALING OF DOCUMENTS AND MINUTES FROM THE LABOUR PARTY EXEC. HE WAS AN MI5 OFFICER EVEN WHEN HE WAS HEAD OF THE CONSERVATIVE RESEARCH DEPT. BALL RAN HIS OWN INTELLIGENCE EMPIRE FROM THE DEPT WHICH BEFORE THE WAR WAS LARGELY STAFFED BY MI5 PERSONNEL. EVEN AFTER THE WAR IT SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN A ROUTE FOR INTELLIGENCE OPERATIVES INTO POLITICS. DURING THE WAR BALL HAD GREAT INFLUENCE OVER MI5, HARKNESS WAS ‘HIS’ MAN. HE HELPED IN THE REORGANISATION OF THE INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES FOR THEIR POST-WAR ROLE. BALL, IT WAS SAID, BURNT ALL HIS NOTES AND LEFT NO BIOGRAPHY. RECENT RUMOURS SUGGEST THAT THERE MAY INDEED BE A BIOGRAPHY
SON, ALAN HUGH BALL 1947-
CHAIRMAN AND JOINT MANAGING DIR LONRHO LTD AND ASSOC COMPANIES

BARCLAY, CHRISTOPHER FRANCIS ROBERT
CMG (1967)
B 8.6.19
MAGDALEN COLL OXFORD
IRD
1940 ASIAN FORCES
1944 MECAS JERUSALEM
1945 POLITICAL OFFICER NORTHERN IRAQ
1946 ASSIST INFO OFFICER BAGHDAD
1946 FO 2ND SEC CAIRO
1950 1ST SEC FO
1953 1ST SEC BONN
1956 FO
1960 REGIONAL INFO OFFICER BEIRUT
1961 ASSIST IRD
1962 COUNSELLOR AND HEAD IRD
1967 HEAD OF PERSONNEL DEPT (TRAINING AND GENERAL) FCO
1969 ASSIST SEC CIVIL SERVICE DEPT
1973 ASSIST SEC DEPT OF ENVIRONMENT
1976-80 SEC GOVT HOSPITALITY FUND
1976 COUNCIL MEMBER CITY UNIVERSITY
1980 WARDEN SADLERS WELLS COMPANY

BARKER, ROYD
MI5 (NS 17.8.84)
1984 DIRECTOR A1 OPERATIONS BRANCH, ‘BURGLAR IN CHIEF’

BARKER, THOMAS CHRISTOPHER
B 28.6.28
IRD
1947-8 ARMY
1952 FO
1953 3RD SEC PARIS
1955 2ND SEC LATER 1ST SEC BAGHDAD
1959 FO
1962 1ST SEC HEAD OF CHANCERY AND CONSUL MEXICO CITY
1967 FCO
1969 COUNSELLOR AND HOC CARACAS
1971 FCO
1972 HEAD OF IRD
1976 SECONDED AS UNDER SEC NORTHERN IRELAND OFFICE
1976 RETIRED
1980 CURATOR SCOTTISH NATIONAL WAR MEMORIAL

BARNARD, BEVERLEY GAYER
CMG (1959)
B 4.8.16, D 5.9.73
MI6 (BF)
1938 TELEVISION RESEARCH SCOPHONY
1940 WESTLAND AIRCRAFT LTD
1941 ROYAL AIRCRAFT ESTABLISHMENT FARNBOROUGH
1944 ADVANCE ELEMENT CONTROL COMMISSION GERMANY
1947 CIVIL AIR ATTACHE AT BAGHDAD TEHRAN AND PERSIAN GULF
1952 CIVIL AIR ATTACHE MIDDLE EAST. RESIDENT AT CAIRO AND BEIRUT*
1959- ‘CONSULTANT ON MIDDLE EAST AFFAIRS’
DIPLOMAT UGANDA, OPERATED ‘SOUTHERN AIR MOTIVE’. INVOLVED IN 1969 ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON OBOTE. ALSO INVOLVED, ANTONY DIVALL, AN MI6 ‘HEAVY’- NOW AN ARMS DEALER IN HAMBURG
*POST TAKEN OVER BY ROBERT SWINNEY SWAN WHO HAS AN INTERESTING DIPLOMATIC CAREER ENDING AS COUNSELLOR BONN. NOW ENGAGED IN LEGAL HISTORICAL RESEARCH AND SDP/ALLIANCE POLITICAL WORK.

BARNES, RICHARD CUMBERLAND
B 19.7.12
PEMBROKE COLL OXFORD
MI6(C)
1940 HM FORCES
1946 SECONDED TO EMBASSY ATHENS
1947 TRANSFERRED TO UK DELEGATION TO UNSCOB
1948 1ST SEC (LOCAL) ATHENS
1950 FO
1953 STUDENT NATO DEFENCE COLL PARIS
1ST SEC UK DELEGATION UN NEW YORK
1959 COUNSELLOR AND CONSUL GEN DJAKARTA
1961 SECONDED FOR SERVICE WITH CRO
1962 FO, COUNSELLOR AND CONSUL GEN ATHENS
1964 RETIRED

BARRET, RUSSELL
CB
TREASURY DEP SEC IN CHARGE OF OVERSEAS FINANCE.
HEAD OF OVERSEAS ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE (OEIC). REGARDED AS PART OF THE RULING INTELLIGENCE ‘TRIUMVIRATE’ (NS 19.11.82). OEIC DIRECTS THE INTELLIGENCE SERVICES IN THE GATHERING OF COMMERCIAL INFORMATION WHICH IS FED, SANITISED, TO BRITISH COMPANIES WHOSE ECONOMIC INTERESTS ARE IN LINE WITH THE ‘NATIONAL INTEREST’.

BAILEY, DESMOND PATRICK
B 6.5.07
QUEENS COLL CAMBRIDGE
1931 BAR INNER TEMPLE
1939-45 RIFLE BRIGADE
SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXEC, NORTH AFRICA, ITALY
1965-79 JUDGE

BARRINGTON, VISCOUNT PATRICK WILLIAM DAINES
B 29.10.08
MAGDALEN COLL OXFORD
1940 BAR INNER TEMPLE
1940-45 GCHQ 2ND LT
1945 HON ATTACHE BERLIN AND ‘SOME TIME IN FOREIGN OFFICE’

BARRY, SIR PATRICK RECKLAND REDMAN (KC)
B 4.9.1898, D 6.5.72
BALLIOL COLL OXFORD
1918-19 IRISH GUARDS
1923 BAR
1939 IRISH GUARDS
1940 GENERAL STAFF MI5 LIAISON WITH DIRECTOR PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS
1942 LT-COL
1950-66 JUDGE

BARTLETT, (CHARLES) VERNON (OLDFIELD)
CBE (1956)
B 30.4.1894, D 18.1.83
GARRICK, SPECIAL FORCES
1914-15 EUROPEAN WAR
1917 REUTERS PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE
1919 THE TIMES SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT SWITZERLAND, GERMANY, POLAND, ROME
1922-32 LONDON DIRECTOR LEAGUE OF NATIONS
1934-54 NEWS CHRONICLE
1938-50 MP (IND PROG)
1939 ELECTRA HOUSE FO – DEPT EH
1940-45 ‘SPECIAL FORCES’
1948 MEMBER UN ADVISORY COMMITTEE OF INFORMATION EXPERTS
1954-61 SOUTH EAST ASIA CORRESPONDENT GUARDIAN, AND POLITICAL COMMENTATOR STRAITS TIMES, SINGAPORE

AUTHOR

BAXTER, HON HERBERT JAMES
OBE (1946)
B 6.3.1900, D 3.5.74
EXETER COLL OXFORD, REFORM
1918 No7 OFFICERS CADET BN
1927 BAR INNER TEMPLE
1939 CIVIL ASSIST WAR OFFICE
INTELLIGENCE CORPS LT-COL (MI5)
1945-73 JUDGE

BEATTIE, THOMAS BRUNTON
CMG (1981) OBE (68)
B 17.3.24
PEMBROKE COLL CAMBRIDGE
SPECIAL FORCES, CARLTON
MI6 (C)
1943-7 RAF
1947 JOINT PRESS READING SERVICE MOSCOW
1951 FO
1951 HELSINKI FINNISH SECRETARIAT
1954 FO
1956 2ND SEC (VISA) MADRID
1960 FO
1964 1ST SEC ATHENS
1969 1ST SEC LATER COUNSELLOR FCO
1977 COUNSELLOR ROME
1981 FCO
1982 RETIRED

BECKINGHAM, PROF CHARLES FRASER
B 18.2.14
QUEENS COLL CAMBRIDGE
1936 DEPT OF PRINTED BOOKS BRITISH MUSEUM
1942 SECONDED FOR SERVICE WITH MILITARY AND NAVAL INTELLIGENCE
1946-51 FO
1951-65 LECTURER ISLAMIC HISTORY MANCHESTER UNIV
1958-72 MEMBER COUNCIL HAKLUYT SOC
1964-79 TREASURER LATER PRES, ROYAL ASIATIC SOC
1965-81 PROF OF ISLAMIC STUDIES UNIV OF LONDON

BEDDINGTON, MAJ GEN WILLIAM RICHARD
B 8.10.1893, D 7.12.75
NEW COLL OXFORD
MI6 (W)
1914-18 HM FORCES GREECE AND EGYPT
1939 MI6 DEPUTY DIRECTOR ARMY SECTION
1940 PALESTINE
1941 MID EAST PERSIA, IRAQ, FRANCE, GERMANY
1947 RETIRED

BEELS, JONATHAN SIDNEY SPENCER
B 19.1.43
MI6(C)
1965 3RD LATER 2ND SEC FCO
1970 PRAGUE
1973 1ST SEC FCO
1977 1ST SEC ON LOAN TO N IRELAND OFFICE

BELL, WALTER (FRANKCOURT)
CMG (1967) MEDAL OF FREEDOM (46)
B 7.11.09
TRAVELLERS
MI5 (W)
1930 BARRISTER
1935 MI6 ACTING VICE CONSUL NEW YORK
1940 MEXICO CITY
1941 NEW YORK BRITISH SECURITY COORDINATION, ESTABLISHED CLOSE LINKS WITH BEGINNINGS OF OSS
1942 FO MI6 LINK WITH OSS LONDON
1946 1ST SEC WASHINGTON
1949 MI5 RECRUITED BY SILLITOE, ATTACHED EAST AFRICAN HIGH COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE KENYA. SECURITY LIAISON OFFICER
1952-55 1ST SEC BRITISH HIGH COMMISSION NEW DELHI
1956 LONDON. SECURITY ADVISER BRITISH EMBASSY WASHINGTON – DID NOT PROCEED, BECAME PERSONAL ASSISTANT TO HOLLIS
1957 ADVISER FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OFFICE WEST INDIES
1961 ATTACHED GOVT KENYA
1963 COUNSELLOR KENYA
1967 RETIRED

BENHAM, MICHAEL KENT
B 20.9.44
1963 FO
1967 RAWALPINDI
1970 ARCHIVIST QUITO
1974 FCO
1976 3RD SEC AND VICE CONSUL TRIPOLI, DEPORTED 1980 (D TELEGRAPH 3.6.80)
1980 NAIROBI

BENNETT, JAMES
GCHQ
1940 SIGNALS INTELLIGENCE
1945 GCHQ, AUSTRIA, TURKEY, AUSTRALIA, HONG KONG, CHELTENHAM
1952 HEAD OF GENERAL SEARCH SECTION
1954 RESIGNED
1958 ROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTED POLICE COUNTER ESPIONAGE DESK – DEVELOPED ‘MOVEMENT ANALYSIS’ IS SUSPECT SPY BUT NO EVIDENCE. CLEARED

BENSON, ARTHUR
B 16.6.18
MI6 (C)
1939-46 RAF
1946 FO, SINGAPORE
1947 FO
1949 BRITISH MIDDLE EAST OFFICE, CAIRO
1952 CYPRUS
1954 FO
1964 ADEN
1966 1ST SEC LATER COUNSELLOR FCO
RETIRED

BENTON, KENNETH CARTER
B 4.3.09
MI6 (W)
1937-8 CONTROL PASSPORT OFFICER VIENNA
1939 VICE CONSUL RIGA
1940 FO
1941 3RD LATER 2ND SEC MADRID, HEAD OF COUNTER ESPIONAGE SECT B
1944 SECTION B (RYDER ST)
1944 2ND LATER 1ST SEC ROME
1948 FO
1950 ROME
1953 1ST SEC (VISA) MADRID
1956 FO
1962 1ST SEC AND CONSUL LIMA
1965 FO
1966 COUNSELLOR FO
1968 RETIRED
1974-75 CHAIRPERSON CRIME WRITERS ASSOC. WROTE ISC CONFLICT STUDIES No 2, AUTHOR

BERLIN, SIR ISAIAH
OM (1971) KT (57) CBE (46)
B 6.6.09
ATHENAEAUM, BROOKS, GARRICK
1941 MINISTER OF INFO NEW YORK
BRITISH SECURITY COORDINATION (MI6)
1942 WASHINGTON
1945-46 MOSCOW
FELLOW ALL SOULS COLL, TALENT SPOTTER FOR MI6 ie STEPHEN DE MOWBRAY

BERRY, GEORGE W
OBE
MI6 (W)
– 1938 RIGA HEAD OF STATION
1939 VIENNA, BLETCHLEY
1943 MOSCOW HOS
1946-50 2ND SEC (LOCAL) MOSCOW

BERRY,* (WILLIAM) MICHAEL
– LORD HARTWELL
MBE (1944) TD
B 18.5.11
CHRISTCHURCH OXFORD
WHITES, ROYAL YACHT, BEEFSTEAK
1938 11TH LIGHT ROYAL ARTILLERY TA
1945-54 FOREIGN OFFICE LIST
1954-59 CHAIRMAN AMALGAMATED PRESS LTD
1959- TRUSTEE REUTERS, CHAIRMAN AND EDITOR IN CHIEF D TELEGRAPH
ACCUSED OF WORKING FOR BRITISH INTELLIGENCE BY IZVESTIYA (LE MONDE 22.12.68)
*RELATED TO LORD BIRKENHEAD (FREDERICK WINSTON FURNEAUX SMITH)
MARRIED TO HON SHEILA BERRY

BESSELL, PETER JOSEPH
B 24.8.21
REFORM, NATIONAL LIBERAL
1943-45 LECTURER TO HM FORCES MINISTRY OF INFORMATION
1956-60 LIBERAL EXEC. CONTESTED ELECTIONS
1964 LIBERAL MP
1967 PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSION TO S VIETNAM
1967-68 NATIONAL PRES BROTHERHOOD MOVEMENT.
‘INVESTMENT CONSULTANT’
CLAIMED TO HAVE BEEN A CIA AGENT WHILST A LIBERAL MP (SEE THE PENCOURT FILE)

BETJEMEN, SIR JOHN
KT (1969) CBE (60)
B 1906, D 1985
OXFORD
BEEFSTEAK
1941-42 UK PRESS ATTACHE DUBLIN, MI6 (PHOENIX 26.4.85)
WORKED WITH CECIL LIDDEL MI5 AND FUTURE ISRAELI PRESIDENT DR CHAIM HERZOG WHO WAS CHIEF OF BRITISH MILITARY INTELLIGENCE IN EIRE
1943 ADMIRALTY
POET AND AUTHOR, LATER POET LAUREATE

BETTANEY, MICHAEL
BORN 1950
PEMBROKE COLLEGE OXFORD
MI5
1973 RECRUITED TO MI5
1975 OFFICIAL RECRUITMENT
1976 F BRANCH, WORKED WITH MIRANDA INGRAM, N IRELAND USED ALIAS ‘JOHN EDMONDS’
1980 LONDON
1981 OPERATION BANNER ASHFORD KENT
1983 TRIED TO WORK FOR SOVIETS
1984 FOUND GUILTY OF ESPIONAGE, NOW IN PRISON.

ARTHUR H BIRSE
(CBE)
MOSCOW MI6 STATION INTERPRETER 1943-50
1954 1ST SEC (VISA) VIENNA

BINGHAM, (LORD CLANMORRIS), JOHN MICHAEL WARD
B 3.11.08
MI5 (W)
1945-50 HEAD OF F(A) RUNNING DEEP COVER PENETRATION AGENTS IN THE COMMUNIST PARTY. RUN FROM FLAT IN EXHIBITION RD, SOUTH KENSINGTON
1952-84 AUTHOR JOHN BINGHAM SPY/THRILLERS
WIFE, MADELEINE, INTELL WWII, AUTOBIOGRAPHY BARRED BY D-NOTICE COMMITTEE

BLAIR, CHARLES NEIL MOLESWORTH
CMG (1962) OBE (48)
B 22.10.10
ARMY AND NAVY
MI6 (W)
1939 BLACKWATCH EUROPE N AFRICA, SICILY
1941 INSTRUCTOR ARMY STAFF COLL
1943 COMMANDED 1ST BLACK WATCH
1944 ARMY STAFF COLL
1945 RETIRED, WAR WOUNDS
1951-67 FO MI6
SENIOR MI6 OFFICER WHO WROTE OFFICIAL (UNRELEASED) HISTORY OF MI6 IN WW2

BLAKE, GEORGE
B 11.11.22
MI6
1942 SOE DUTCH SECTION IN LONDON
1944 NAVAL INTELLIGENCE
1945 INTERROGATION OF U-BOAT COMMANDERS HAMBURG
1947 MI6 VICE CONSUL SEOUL
1950-53 IMPRISONED BY NORTH KOREANS
1954 FO
1955 WEST BERLIN SPYING FOR SOVIETS WITH BRITISH KNOWLEDGE
1959 FO
1960 MECAS
MET PHILBY IN BEIRUT PRIOR TO MID EASTERN POSTING
1961 ARRESTED KGB MOLE
MARRIED TO MI6 SECRETARY GILLIAN ALLEN

BLAKER, SIR PETER (ALLAN RENSHAW)
KCMG (1983) PC (83)
BORN 4.10.22
NEW COLLEGE OXFORD
‘INFORMED TRADITIONAL MODERATE; STUBBORN IN OFFICE, AGGRESSIVE IN OPPOSITION, STIFFLY ANTI-RUSSIAN, PRO-AMERICAN. HAS SHOWN STRONG INTEREST IN HUMAN RIGHTS. FORMERLY STAR WILSON-BAITER.’
1942-46 ARGYLL AND SUTHERLANDS
1948 SOLICITOR
1952 BAR LINCOLNS INN
1953 FOREIGN SERVICE
1955 1ST SECRETARY PHNOM PENH
1956 CHARGE D’AFFAIRS
1957 1ST SECRETARY ON SECONDMENT TO CRO OTTAWA
1960 FO
1962 PRIVATE SECRETARY TO MIN OF STATE, ATTENDED DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE GENEVA AND UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1963 SIGNING OF NUCLEAR TEST BAN TREATY MOSCOW
1964 RESIGNED, MP CON
1974-79 COUNCIL OF GB-USSR ASSOC
1977-79 CHATHAM HOUSE ON LOTS OF COMMITTEES
A MEMBER OF HESELTINE’S DS 19 GROUP. WAS CLOSELY INVOLVED IN THE ANTI-CND PROPAGANDA EFFORTS.

BLATHERWICK, DAVID ELLIOT SPIBY
OBE (1973)
B 13.7.41
MI6 (C)
1964 MECAS
1966 3RD LATER 2ND SEC FO
1968 KUWAIT
1970 DUBLIN
1973 1ST SEC FO
1977 1ST SEC AND HOC CAIRO
1981 COUNSELLOR ON LOAN TO NI OFFICE
1983 HEAD OF ESSD FCO
(ENERGY SCIENCE AND SPACE DEPT)

BOSLEY, REX W
OBE
MI6 (WEST)
1939 STOCKHOLM DEP HEAD OF THE HELSINKI STATION
1949 2ND SEC HELSINKI
1960 1ST SEC (VISA) STOCKHOLM
1965 1ST SEC (VISA) OSLO

BOSSARD, FRANK CLIFTON
B 1913
1940 RAF FL LT
1946 SECONDED TO WAR OFFICE, INTELLIGENCE OFFICER
1951 SENIOR INTELLIGENCE OFFICER SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE BRANCH GERMANY
1956 TRANSFERRED TO MOD OVERSEAS LIAISON BRANCH OF JOINT INTELLIGENCE BUREAU
ATTACHE BONN EMBASSY INTERVIEWING SCIENCE EXILES FROM EAST GERMANY
1958 LONDON HEAD OF GENERAL INTELLIGENCE BUREAU AT MOD
1960 AVIATION MINISTRY NAVAL GUIDED WEAPONS BRANCH
1964 PROJECT OFFICER
1965 ARRESTED
RECRUITED BY KGB 1961, IMPRISONED

BONSALL, SIR ARTHUR (WILFRED)
KCMG (1977) CBE (57)
B 25.6.17
GCHQ
1914 AIR MINISTRY
1922 FO
1962 IMPERIAL DEFENCE COLL
1973 HEAD OF GCHQ
1978 RETIRED

BOWES-LYON, SIR DAVID
CVO (1959)
B 2.5.02, D 3.9.61
MAGDALEN COLL OXFORD
BROOKS
1939 TIMES PUBLISHING COMPANY, LT HERTFORDSHIRE REGT
1940 MINISTRY OF ECONOMIC WARFARE
1942 DEPUTY FOR LEEPER AT PWE (WOBURN) WITH SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES FOR “BLACK PROPAGANDA”
HEAD OF PWE MISSION TO WASHINGTON DURING WHICH HE HAD ACCESS TO THE PRESIDENT
HELPED SET UP PARALLEL AMERICAN AGENCIES
“HIS BRIEF WENT BEYOND THE TERMS MADE PUBLIC… AT ONE STAGE HE TOOK A PARTICULAR INTEREST IN FAR EASTERN AFFAIRS …. SOME OF THE WORK HAS REMAINED SECRET.”
1944 SOE
1959 CHAIRMAN FINANCIAL TIMES
1961 MERCHANT BANKER, MANAGING DIRECTOR LAZARDS, SUB GOV OF ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE, DIRECTOR MARTINS BANK, CUNARDS, DUNLOP

BOWLBY, CAPT CUTHBERT FRANCIS BOND
CMG (1956) CBE (45) DSC (18)
B 23.8.1895, D 31.5.69
SUMMERFIELDS OXFORD
MI6 (W)
1914-18 ROYAL NAVY BATTLE CRUISER SQUADRON
1924 MI6
1939 ASSIST CHIEF STAFF OFFICER (ACSO)
1940 DIRECTOR CAIRO STATION. LIAISON WITH SIME, UNDER COVER OF THE INTER SERVICES LIAISON DEPT (ISLD), ALSO ALGIERS
1944 ROME
1945 RETIRED RN, FO
1955 RETIRED MI6 DIRECTOR OF PERSONNEL

BOWLES, ERIC FRANK
B 21.8.26
GCHQ
1944-52 HM FORCES
1952 AIR MINISTRY
1953 GCHQ
1966 FCO
1970 MALTA

BOWMAN, JOHN HOOD
B 24.7.13
TRINITY HALL COLL CAMBRIDGE
MI6 (BF)
1937 HM FORCES
1948 FO
1949 CONTROL COMMISSION GERMANY
1954 FO, 3RD SEC BUENOS AIRES
1958 HELSINKI
1960 FO
1963 SECONDED TO CRO, 1ST SEC (EXTERNAL AFFAIRS) SALISBURY
1965 1ST SEC FO
1968 RESIGNED

BOWEN, RUPERT
MI5
N IRELAND ARMY HQ(LISBURN) 1970s

BOXSHALL, EDWARD G
B 1897, D JAN 84
MI6 (W)
BRITAIN’S LONGEST SERVING CIVIL SERVANT AND SPOOK. HAD KNOWN SIDNEY REILLY IN RUSSIA. STILL ON CIVIL LIST 1978.
HEAD OF STATION, BUCHAREST 1920s-30’s ALSO OFFICIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF ICI AND ZAHAROFF’S VICKERS COMPANY.
WWII SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXEC RESPONSIBLE FOR THE VETTING OF BOOKS BY EX-OFFICERS SUBJECT TO OFFICIAL SECRETS ACT.

BOYLE, FL LT ANTHONY
EX RAF, WORKED FOR MI6 IN ADEN. EARLY 60’s RECRUITED MERCENARIES FOR NORTHERN YEMEN OPERATION.

BOYLE, PROF JOHN ANDREW
B 1916, D 19.11.78
UNIV’S BERLIN LONDON BIRMINGHAM
1941 ROYAL ENGINEERS
1942-50 ‘SECONDED TO A SPECIAL DEPT OF THE FOREIGN OFFICE’
1950 MANCHESTER UNIV
1966 PROF OF PERSIAN STUDIES
SPECIALIST ON IRAN AND THE MIDDLE EAST

BRAND, JOHN MCHARDY
B 12.6.50
MI6 (C)
1974 FCO
1975 3RD LATER 2ND SEC ON LOAN TO NORTHERN IRELAND OFFICE
1977 2ND SEC ACCRA
1979 2ND LATER 1ST SEC FCO
1981 UK MISSION TO NEW YORK
1983 FCO

BRASH, ROBERT
B 30.5.34
TRINITY COLL CAMBRIDGE
IRD
1943-6 HM FORCES
1948 ASSIST PRINCIPAL GENERAL POST OFFICE
1949 3RD SEC FO
1950 IRD
1951 3RD SEC LATER 2ND SEC DJAKARTA
1955 FO
1956 1ST SEC
1958 CONSUL AND CONSUL GEN JERUSALEM
1961 1ST SEC BONN
1964 HOC BUCHAREST
1966 FO
1968 COUNSELLOR AND HEAD OF EAST WEST CONTACTS DEPT
1970 CANADIAN NATIONAL DEFENCE COLL
1971 COUNSELLOR AND CONSUL GEN SAIGON
1974 COUNSELLOR VIENNA
1978 CONSUL GEN DUSSELDORF
1981 AMBASSADOR DJAKARTA

BRATT, GUY MAURICE
CMG (1977) MBE (45)
B 4.4.20
LONDON UNIV
TRAVELLERS
MI6(C)
1940-46 ROYAL SIGNALS (MAJ)
1947 SOLICITOR ASSIST SEC COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT CORP
1952 FO
1954 BERLIN
1956 2ND SEC BRUSSELS
1958 FO
1962 1ST SEC, 1ST SEC (VISA) VIENNA
1966 FCO
1970 GENEVA
1972 FCO
1974 WASHINGTON
1977 RETIRED
1977-85 RE-EMPLOYED COUNSELLOR FCO

BREEN, MAJ TIMOTHY FLORENCE
CBE (1933)
B 8.8.1885, D 8.11.66
MI6(W)
1914-18 EUROPEAN WAR
1919 ATTACHE MILITARY MISSION
CHIEF PASSPORT OFFICER BERLIN
1921-37 1ST SEC (PRESS SEC) BERLIN

BREMNER, WILLIAM (BILL)
MI6 (W)
PRE-WAR G OFFICER
1940 DEPUTY INTER SERVICES LIAISON DEPT MIDDLE EAST
POST WAR SENIOR OFFICER

BRENCHLEY, THOMAS FRANK
CMG (1964)
B 9.4.18
TRAVELLERS
GCHQ
1939 ROYAL CORPS SIGNALS
1943 ANKARA
1945-46 DIR TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIAISON
DIRECTORATE SYRIA, LEBANON
1947 GCHQ
1949 FO
1950 SINGAPORE
1953 CAIRO
1956 FO
1958 MECAS
1960 COUNSELLOR KHARTOUM
1963 HEAD OF ARABIAN DEPT FO
1967 ASSIST UNDER SEC OF STATE FO
1968 AMBASSADOR NORWAY
1972 AMBASSADOR POLAND
1975 DEP SEC CABINET OFFICE
1976 RETIRED
DEP SEC AND CHIEF EXEC ARAB-BRITISH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
1983 CHAIRMAN INSTITUTE FOR STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

BRIANCE, JOHN ALBERT
CMG (1960)
B 19.10.15
NAVAL AND MIL
MI6(C)
1936-48 COLONIAL POLICE PALESTINE
1949 FO
1950-52 TEHRAN
1953 BRITISH MIDDLE EAST OFFICE
1954-57 FO
1958-60 COUNSELLOR WASHINGTON
1961 COUNSELLOR OFFICE OF UK
COMMISSION FOR SE ASIA SINGAPORE
1964 FCO
1970 RETIRED

BRIDGWOOD, LEONARD DAVID
B 24.11.26
GCHQ
1945-48 ARMY
1952 GCHQ
1954 MELBOURNE
1956 HONG KONG
1969 2ND SEC FCO
1970 2ND SEC (INFO) OSLO
1974 1ST SEC (INFO) TEL AVIV
1977 1ST SEC HOC VIENTIANE
1979 1ST SEC FCO

BRIGGS, LORD ASA
B 7.5.21
SIDNEY SUSSEX COLL CAMBRIDGE
1942-43 INTELLIGENCE CORPS GCHQ
1976- PROVOST WORCESTER COLL OXFORD
HISTORIAN OF THE BBC

BRIMELOW, SIR THOMAS BARRON
GCMG (1975) KCMG (68) CMG (59) OBE (54)
B 25.10.15
ORIEL COLL OXFORD
MI6 (G MOOREHOUSE THE DIPLOMATS: THE FOREIGN OFFICE TODAY 1977)
1938 PROBATIONED VICE CONSUL DANZIG
1939 CONSULATE OFFICE RIGA
1940 CONSULATE GEN OFFICE NEW YORK
1942 3RD SEC AND VICE CONSUL MOSCOW
1945 FO
1948 1ST SEC (COMM) HAVANA
1951 1ST SEC AND HEAD OF RUSSIAN SECRETARIAT MOSCOW
1954 COMM COUNSELLOR ANKARA
1956 HEAD OF NORTHERN DEPT FO
1960 COUNSELLOR WASHINGTON
1963 MINISTER MOSCOW
1966 AMBASSADOR WARSAW
1969 DEP UNDER SEC OF STATE FCO AND HEAD OF DIPLOMATIC SERVICE
1975 RETIRED
1977-78 MEMBER EURO PARLIAMENT
1978 CHAIRPERSON OCCUPATIONAL PENSIONS BOARD

BRIMMELL, J.M.
1951 ASSIST. IRD

BRISTOW, DESMOND ARTHUR
BORN 1.6.17
MAGDALEN COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE
MI6 (W)
WORKED FOR DEBEERS
1942 GIBRALTAR SECTION V REPRESENTATIVE
1945 FO
197 2ND SEC (LOCAL) MADRID
1953 FO

BROOKES, VICTOR CANNON
AN EX-SOLICITOR HE WAS IN SOE DURING THE WAR WORKING WITH BRITANOVA NEWS. AFTERWARDS HELPED SET UP NEAR AND FAR EAST NEWS LTD, A BRITISH INTELLIGENCE FRONT (AND A NUMBER OF OTHERS). STILL ALIVE, WENT TO SCHOOL WITH ALAN TURING (GCHQ)

BROOM, ELIZABETH CHRISTINE
B 6.9.29
MI6(C)
1951 FO, CONTROL COMMISSION GERMANY
1955 BERNE
1957 FO
1961 VIENNA
1965 ROME
1969 FCO
1971 2ND SEC BRUSSELS
1974 1ST SEC ON LOAN TO N IRELAND OFFICE
1976-85 1ST SEC FCO

BROOMAN-WHITE, (RICHARD) DICK
B 16.2.12, D 25.1.64
TRINITY COLL CAMBRIDGE
WHITES
MI6 (PHILBY)
‘COVERED A LOT OF GROUND IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA’
1935 JOURNALIST ‘POLITICAL ACTIVITIES’
1938 PRIVATE SEC TO SIR ARCHIBALD COCHRANE
1939 MI5 HEAD OF B21 (IBERIAN SECTION)
1940 MI6 SECTION V. RECRUITED BY PHILBY, LATER DEFENDED HIM IN PARLIAMENT
MEDITERRANEAN AND NW EUROPE
1946 FO
1946-47 ATTACHE TURKEY
1949 FO ALBANIAN EPISODE PLANNING
1951 MP (CON)
1955 PRIVATE SEC TO MIN OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND TO MIN FOR SCOTLAND
1957 LORD COMMISSIONER TREASURY
1960-63 JOINT PARLIAMENTARY UNDER SEC OF STATE FOR SCOTLAND

BROWN, DENYS DOWNING
CMG (1966)
B 16.12.18
BRASENOSE COLL OXFORD
IRD
1939 HM FORCES
1946 FO
1947 2ND SEC WARSAW
1948 FO
1949 PRIVATE SEC TO PERMANENT UNDER SEC OF STATE FOR GERMAN AFFAIRS
1950 SECONDED TO CONTROL COMMISSION FOR GERMANY
1951 IRD
1953 SECURITY DEPT ASSIST
1955 CONSUL ISMAILIA (EGYPT)
1956 ON TEMP DUTY FO
1958 1ST SEC AND HOC BELGRADE
1959 LEARNT SERBO-CROAT
1963 HEAD OF GENERAL DEPT FO
1967 COUNSELLOR AND HOC STOCKHOLM
1970 MINISTER (ECON) BONN
1971 RETIRED
1971-80 EXEC DIRECTOR PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO

BROWN, CAPT PERCY GEORGE
CBE (1919)
B 12\1874, D 24.5.54
MI6 (W)
1896 ROYAL NAVY
1909 COMMANDER
1914-18 BLOCKADE DUTY
1919 RETIRED
1920 MI6
1939 BUDAPEST HEAD OF STATION
1941-42 MAJOR HOME GUARD

BROWNE, NICHOLAS WALKER
B 17.12.47
MI6 (BF)
1969 3RD SEC FCO
1971 3RD SEC TEHRAN
1975 2ND LATER 1ST SEC FCO
1976 ON LOAN TO CABINET OFFICE
1980 1ST SEC HOC SALISBURY
1981- 1ST SEC FCO

BROWNING, ROBERT FRANCIS
B 13.1.38
CORPUS CHRISTI CAMBRIDGE
MI6(C)
1946-48 HM FORCES
1951-59 COLONIAL ADMIN SERVICE
1961 FO
1962 VICE CONSUL GENEVA
1964 2ND SEC UK MISSION TO UN GENEVA
1966 1ST SEC (VISA) ATHENS
1967 FCO
1971 1ST SEC COPENHAGEN
RETIRED

BRUCE, HON NIGEL HENRY CLARENCE
B 17.6.21
NEW COLL OXFORD
MI6 (PHILBY)
1941 WELSH GUARDS
1946 FO
1949 2ND SEC FO, 2ND SEC DAMASCUS
1952 FO, OBSERVER ON CIVIL SERVICE SELECTION BOARD
1954 1ST SEC FO
1961 RETIRED

BRUCE-LOCKHART, JOHN MACGREGOR
CB (1966) CMG (51) OBE (44)
B 9.5.14
ST ANDREWS UNIV
REFORM
MI6(W)
1940 INTER SERVICES LIAISON DEPT, MIDDLE EAST, ITALY
1945-47 POST MILITARY ATTACHE PARIS
1948 CONTROL COMMISSION FOR GERMANY
1951 1ST SEC WASHINGTON
1953 FO
1965 RESIGNED
1965-67 HEAD OF PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT WARWICK UNIV
LOADS OF COMMITTEES, PUBLICATIONS RUSI, HARVARD, GEORGETOWN UNIV

BURROUGH, JOHN OUTHIT HAROLD
CBE (1963) CB (57)
B 31.1.16
GCHQ
1934 ROYAL NAVAL COLL DARTMOUTH
1936 SUB LT RN
1938 LT
1944 LT COMM
1946 FO (GCHQ)
1964 IMPERIAL DEFENCE COLL
1965 COUNSELLOR WASHINGTON
1967 UNDER SEC FCO (GCHQ)
1976 RETIRED
1979-82 RACAL DIRECT COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS LTD

BURROUGHS, RONALD ARTHUR
CMG (1966)
B 4.6.17, D 24.5.80
TRINITY COLL CAMBRIDGE
TRAVELLERS
1940-45 FLEET AIR ARM
1946 FO
1947 2ND SEC RIO DE JANEIRO
1949 VICE CONSUL MARSEILLES
1950 1ST SEC CAIRO
1953 FO
1955 ATTACHED NATIONAL DEFENCE COLL CANADA
1956 1ST SEC (INFO) VIENNA
1959 COUNSELLOR FO
1962 COUNSELLOR RIO DE JANEIRO
1964 HEAD OF INFO EXEC DEPT FO, COUNSELLOR LISBON
1967 CHARGE D’AFFAIRS SOUTH YEMEN
1968 ASSIST UNDER SEC OF STATE FCO ON INTELLIGENCE SIDE
OVERSEEING THE ‘OBSERVERS’ IN NIGERIA (PRIVATE EYE 24.4.70)
1970 SECURITY COORDINATOR FOR NORTHERN IRELAND. UK REP TO NI GOVT
71 RETIRED

BURROWS, SIR BERNARD ALEXANDER BROCAS
GCMG (1970) KCMG (55) CMG (50)
B 3.7.10
TRINITY COLL OXFORD
TRAVELLERS
1934 FO
1937-44 3RD, 2ND, LATER 1ST SEC CAIRO
1945 FO
1947 COUNSELLOR AND HEAD OF EASTERN DEPT FO
1950 COUNSELLOR WASHINGTON
1953 POLITICAL RESIDENT PERSIAN GULF BAHREIN
1958 AMBASSADOR TURKEY
1963 CHAIRMAN JOINT INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE, DEP UNDER SEC OF STATE FO
1966 PERMANENT BRITISH REP TO N ATLANTIC COUNCIL
1970 RETIRED
PUBLICATIONS ON DEFENCE AND SECURITY

BURT, LEONARD JAMES
CVO (1954)
B 20.4.1892, D 3.9.83
1919 CID SCOTLAND YARD
1940 INTELLIGENCE CORPS LT COL, MI5 3 DIVISION
1945 INTERROGATOR BRITISH ZONE GERMANY
1946 COMMANDER SPECIAL BRANCH SCOTLAND
1958 RETIRED

BUTCHER, PETER RODERICK
B 6.8.47
IRD
1974 FCO
1975 IRD EAST AFRICA DESK
1978 RESEARCH DEPT FCO
1979 2ND SEC (TECHNICAL COOPERATION) LIMA
1983 2ND SEC (COMM) BOMBAY

BUTLER, COL ARNOLD CHARLES PAUL
CBE (1943)
B 24.3.1890, D 7.12.73
MI5
1909-20 KINGS ROYAL RIFLE CORPS
1926 MI5
1945 HEAD OF A DIVISION ADMIN
1950 RETIRED

BUTLER, KEITH STEPHENSON
CMG (1977)
B 3.9.17
ST PETERS HALL OXFORD
IRD
1939 ROYAL ARTILLERY EGYPT GREECE CRETE
1941-45 PRISONER OF WAR
1947 OVERSEAS MINISTRY OF SUPPLY AND FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT FOR KEMSLEY NEWSPAPERS (IAN FLEMING)
1950 FO
1951 IRD
1952 1ST SEC INFO ANKARA
1956 1ST SEC HOC CARACAS
1959 FO
1962 NATIONAL DEFENCE COLL CANADA
1963 1ST SEC (INFO) PARIS
1965 REGIONAL INFO OFFICER MONTREAL
1968 CONSUL GEN SEVILLE
1969 CONSUL GEN BORDEAUX
1974 NAPLES
1977 RETIRED
1978 APPEAL DIRECTOR FOR VARIOUS CHARITIES