Conservative Party: and Fascist movement 25, 59, 139; election victories 36, 318; MPs 25, 32, 33, 139, 247, see also Ramsay, Captain Archibald Maule; and spies and spymasters 32, 33, 36, 81, 82–3, 89, 92, 104, 111, 122, 217
Cook, Arthur 57
Cooper, John 330
Cornwell, David see Le Carré, John
Coster, Howard 144
Cottenham, Mark Pepys, Earl of 255, 261
Country Questions (BBC radio) 326
Countryside (magazine) 336
Countrywise (BBC television) 327
Crime Cargo (M’s first novel) 143–4, 159
Crowley, Aleister 199
Curry, John 313
Curtis-Bennett, Sir Henry, KC 47
Curzon of Kedleston, George Curzon, 1st Marquess 19
Daily Express 90, 109, 159, 230, 323
Daily Mail 36, 82, 139, 175, 322
Daily Mirror 34, 231
Daily Sketch 296
Daily Worker 99, 100, 101, 102, 108, 110, 111, 112, 127–8, 164, 292
Dale, Walter 67
Danischewsky, Irene 267, 283, 284, 285
D-Day landings (1944) 310
De Bono, General Emilio 170
Defence (General) Regulations 231, 289, 297; 18b(1a) 289–90, 291, 292, 293, 302, 307
Del Monte, Francesco Marigliano, Duca (‘Mr Macaroni’) 277, 278
Delhi Intelligence Bureau 157–8
Dennis, Barry 266
Desert Island Discs (BBC radio) 326–7
‘Destroyers for Bases’ deal 277
Deutsch, Arnold 178–9, 180, 187, 189, 203, 219
‘Dickson, Grierson’ see Dickson, Jimmy
Dickson, Jimmy (‘M/3’) 123, 125, 158; as thriller writer 125, 229; becomes M’s agent 125–7, 128–9, 146, 305, and friend 126, 158; and Glading 181; asked by M to infiltrate Fascist organisations 195, 196, 198, 224–5; runs agents himself 229; continues to work for M Section 241, 293; reports on British Union of Fascists 276; arrests Anna Wolkoff 283, 287; relationships with female MI5 staff 304; life after leaving MI5 340
Dolphin Square, London: M Section 198, 229, 241
Domvile, Admiral Sir Barry 225
‘Don’ see Makgill, Donald
Dorril, Stephen: Blackshirts 139
‘Double Cross deception’ 230, 303
Dr No (film) 334
Driberg, Tom (‘M/8’) 70, 109–10, 159, 230, 314, 315, 321–3, 339
Dundee Courier 175
Ealing Ladies Hockey Club 123, 169
Economic League 32–3, 47, 90, 249
Edwards, Robert 81, 83
Eisenstein, Sergei: Battleship Potemkin 87
Eliot, Vivienne (née Haigh-Wood) 139
Ellsberg, Daniel 266
‘espionage’ 93
Evans, Arthur Glyn 100
Evans, Peggy 100
Ewer, William (‘Trilby’) 327
Fascism 60, 75, 117–18, 122, 136, 138, 171, 196, 202, 246, 293, 301, 302, 309–11, 332, 338; see also British Fascisti/British Fascists; British Union of Fascists
Fellowship of the Services 259–60
‘Fifth Column’/’Fifth Columnists’ 240, 241, 258, 271–2, 274, 278, 285, 290, 300–1, 302
Finney, Jim 50
Fisher, James 330, 336
Fisher, Sir Warren 76
Fleming, Ian 93, 146, 334
Foot, Michael 38
Forster, E. M. 233
Francis-Hawkins, Neil 117, 118, 251–2, 292
Franco, General Francisco 240
Freemasons 8, 20, 26, 50, 242, 243, 270
Friends of the Soviet Union (FSU) 105–9, 112
Fry, Mr Justice 206
FSU see Friends of the Soviet Union
Fuchs, Klaus 318
Gaertner, Friedl (‘GELATINE’) 221–2, 229–30, 252, 293, 306, 337, 339
Gario, Gino 193
Garnett, David ‘Bunny’ 103
Geary, Charles 259–60
‘GELATINE’ see Gaertner, Friedl
General Elections: 1924 32, 35—6, 50, 249; 1929 67; 1931 83–4; 1935 171; 1945 317; 1951 318
General Strike (1926) 57–8
George V 77
Gestapo, the 137, 138, 272, 281
Gilligan, Arthur 25
Gillson, Tony 305
Ginhoven, Inspector Hubert van 67
Glading, Percy: ‘a red-hot Communist’ 119–20; sacked from Woolwich Arsenal 120–21; re-educated in Moscow 149–50; becomes National Organiser of the Communist Party 121, and a paid official in Soviet front organisation 121; under surveillance by Olga Gray 121, 123, 130–31; and Dickson 128, 181; organises Olga’s mission to India 141, 142, 146–7, 149; maintains contact with her 165–6, 169; meets Soviet handlers 178, 179; instructed to recruit subagents from Woolwich Arsenal 179–80; asks Olga to run safe house 180–82, 183; watched by MI5 181, 183; meeting with Maly 184, 185; given mission to steal blueprints of Royal Naval guns 185–6, 187, 188–91, 327; arrested 203–5, 217; trial 206, 207–10, 214, 220, 296; sentenced to hard labour 210
Glading, Rosa 121
Glasgow Communist Party headquarters: raid 40–41, 42–3, 47, 52
Gloucester Place (No. 47) 1–3, 273, 282–5
Godfrey, Admiral John 334
Goebbels, Joseph 231
Good Companions (BBC television) 325
Gowen, Franklin 283, 284, 296
Graham, Lord Ronald 267–8
Gray, Charles 81–2, 94
Gray, Marjorie 208
Gray, Mrs 81, 84, 123, 131
Gray, Olga: childhood 81–2; character 81, 82, 83, 84–5, 92; recruited into Secret Service 81, 82–5; interview with M 85, 91, 92–5; and his training 95, 96–9, 107; pay 98; first mission to infiltrate FSU 103, 104, 105–9; offered position with Communist organisations 112, 122; shares office with Glading 119, 121, 123; joins hockey club 123; works full-time for Comintern organisations 123–5; meets Dickson 123, 125; and M’s direction 128–9; edges closer to Glading 130–31; her mission to India 141–3, 146–9, 150; resigns from Communist organisations 163; becomes Pollitt’s secretary at British Communist Party headquarters 163–6; has breakdown 167–8; finishes as MI5 agent 169; remains in contact with Pollitt and Glading 169; agrees to run Glading’s safe house 180–81, 182, 183; meets Soviet handlers 184, 185; and Glading’s first NKVD mission 187, 188–92; and his failed mission and arrest 203, 204–5; as ‘Miss X’ at preliminary hearing 206–8; at Glading’s trial 209–11, 213–14; and life after MI5 211–12, 341–2
Gray, Richard 205, 208
Gray’s Inn Road (No. 53) 119, 121, 122, 123, 124, 146
Greene, Ben 306–8
Greene, Douglas 125
Greene, Graham 46, 114, 306; The Third Man 307
Guards Club, London 7–8
Gubbins, Major-General Sir Colin 334
Guinness, Diana (née Mitford, later Mosley) 134
Hall, Admiral Sir Reginal ‘Blinker’ 32, 47, 249, 261, 296
Hancock, Thomas 111
Hancock-Nunn, Eileen see Hewitt, Eileen
Hancock-Nunn, Vivian: as M’s agent (‘M/7’) 110–12, 127, 128–9, 144, 293; and Pollard 146; on Glading’s lawyers 209–10, 211; joins The Link 224–5; life after MI5 340; his novels 340, 341
Hankey, Sir Maurice 76
Hannon, Patrick 25
Hansen, Georg 67, 191
Harker, Jasper 211, 218, 219, 275
Hatchett’s, Piccadilly 72, 110
Hawke, Mr Justice 210–11
Healy, Maurice, KC 297
Hewitt, Edgar, KC 111
Hewitt, Eileen 111
Hewitt, Gerald 340
Himsworth, Norman 314
Hirst, John 223, 242, 259, 293, 309
Hiscox, Molly 309
Hitchcock, Alfred 2; Blackmail 83
229, 231; sympathisers in Britain 245, 248, 309; in Warsaw victory parade 246; plans invasion of Britain 281, 290
Holderness, Sir Ernest 278
Holland Road (No. 82) 183
Hollis, Roger 315
Holmes, Colin 35
Holt-Wilson, Sir Eric 89, 290, 292
Home Office: warrants allowing MI5 interception of letters (‘HOWs’) 90; and Isobel Brown 112; asks MI5 for reports on Fascist movement 136, 138–9, 161; and Joyce 231; refuses to authorise mass internment 239–41, 274, 275–6, 278–9;
finally persuaded 288–90; and arrest of Anna Wolkoff 282; and Ben Greene case 307–8
Home Office Advisory Committee 298, 302, 308
Hope, Henry and Mary (later Lord and Lady Rankeillour) 252
Hughes, J. McGuirk 47, 144, 161, 201, 267–8, 273, 297–8, 299, 300
‘Hunger Marches’ 132
Imperial Fascist League 58–9
Incitement to Disaffection Act (1934) 129
Indian Communist Party 147–8, 149
‘Innocents’ Clubs’ 105
International Lenin School 149–50
International News Service 266
internment 196—7; mass 239–41, 274, 275–6, 278–9, 288–9, 291–2, 293
Invergordon Mutiny (1931) 86–7
IRA 29, 35
Irgun (Zionist group) 317
Italia Nostra, L’ (newspaper) 193
Italo-Abyssinian War, Second 170
Jane, Sergeant Charles 67
Johnson, Herschel 279, 280
Joint Intelligence Committee 274
Jowitt, Sir william 296
Joyce, Hazel (née Barr) 16–17, 35, 37, 54–5, 71, 116, 162
Joyce, James 195
Joyce, Joan 232, 244
Joyce, Meg 231
Joyce, Quentin 232, 244
Joyce, William: early life 29–30; meets Max at British Fascists 28, 29–30, 126; Max’s complex relationship with 30, 37, 41, 71, 115–16; becomes member of K 30–31, 51, 116–17; wounded at Lambeth Baths rally (1924) 33–5, 116, 135; meets future wife at Cenotaph 36–7; marriage 54; graduates from Birkbeck with a First 70; joins Conservative Party 59, 70; cheats on wife 71; not taken on by Max 71; becomes teacher 116; recruited by Mosley into British Union of Fascists 118, 132, 133; runs ‘I Squad’ 133–4; speaks at BUF events 134, 135; secures British passport 134; leads BUF delegation in Germany 134; abandons academia 134–5; becomes BUF Director of Propaganda 135; his anti-Semitism 135, 161, 173, and admiration for Hitler and Mussolini 135, 162; M’s profiles of 161–2, 173; used as an informant by M 162; given money for BUF by financier 171; speeches become wilder 172–3; Eric Roberts on 200, 201; forced out of BUF and sets up pro-Nazi splinter group 200; taken on as agent by M 201–2; reassessed by M 223–4; warned by M and escapes to Berlin 231, 232–3, 244; broadcasts as Lord Haw-Haw 231–2, 244; and Anna Wolkoff 256, 268–70, 271, 273, 297, 298, 300; arrested in Germany 311; hanged 311–12
Joynson-Hicks, William 67
‘K’ (head of MI5) 78
‘K’ (unit) see British Fascisti/british Fascists
Kell, Sir Vernon: sets up Secret Service Bureau 240–41; as head of MI5 49; on duties of a Security Service 300; introduces Morton and Makgill 49–50; sees Max’s reports 51; makes him an offer 53, 57; and department changes 76–7; relationship with M 89, 91; and Incitement to Disaffection Act 129; gives M a Christmas bonus 129–30; his attitude to British Fascism 136, 138; and Mosley 171; dinners with M 199; swamped by enemy alien tribunals 241; and Anna Wolkoff 255, 260–61; at Home Office meeting on British Fascists 288; dismissed by Churchill 290, 292
Kendal, Sir Norman 282
Kennedy, John F., President 264
Kennedy, Joseph 264, 280, 282, 285, 297–8
‘Kent, John’ see Kent, Tyler
Kent, Tyler 263–4; collects copies of documents 263, 264–6; and Anna Wolkoff and Captain Ramsay 262, 266–7, 272–4, 277; arrested 1–2, 279–80, 282–7, 288–9, 291, 300; trial 295–8, 338; sentenced 297
Kerrigan, Peter 143–4
‘King, Captain’ 85, 91, see Knight, Maxwell
‘King, Jack’ see Roberts, Eric
Kipling, Rudyard: Kim 45
Knight, Ada (mother) 10, 12, 13, 16, 56
Knight, Enid (sister) 10, 13, 16, 56, 97, 199, 331
Knight, Eric (brother) 10, 12, 13, 16
Knight, Gwladys (née Poole; 1st wife) 55–6, 61–5, 115, 160; death 174–7, 197–8, 200
Knight, Hugh (father) 10, 12, 97, 145
Knight, Lois (née Coplestone; 2nd wife) 197–8, 199, 200, 249, 330–31
Knight, Maxwell (‘M’)
appearance 7, 95, 159, 197
awarded OBE 308
birth and childhood 10-11, 61, 144–5, 335
and Cambridge spy ring 313–15, 321–2, 338
death and memorial service 336
and death of his wife 174—7, 198, 200
early career: on HMS Worcester 12; in Royal Naval Reserve 9, 12–13; at Ministry of Shipping 13, 15; as paint salesman 15, 16; as games master 7, 16, 27, 102
on Exmoor 59, 61–5, 69–70, 144
family 9, 10, 12, 13, 15–16, 145
homes: in Camberley 310, 332, 333, 335; in Putney 13, 14, 16; Royal Oak, Withypool 61–2; 38 Sloane Street 96–7, 156, 198, 249; Tythegston Court, Wales 9, 10
illnesses: pneumonia 163, 167; angina 332
and Joyce 28, 29–30, 37, 41, 71, 115–16, 126, 167, 201–2, 244, 311–12; his assessments of 29, 161–2, 173, 223–4; and Joyce’s escape to Germany 232–3, 244
in ‘Makgill Organisation’ 7–10, 17, 20–21, 41–2, 50–51, 53, 70, 71
marriages: first 54, 55–6, 64–5, 115, 160; second 197–8, 330–31; third 331–2
MI5 connections 53, 76–8, 87–91, 144, 317; see also ‘M Section’
MI6 connections 50–52, 53, 68–70, 72–6
and Mosley/British Union of Fascists 139–40, 259, 288
as radio broadcaster 326, 328; on Desert Island Discs 326–7; The Naturalist 326, 327
salary 52, 69, 97, 330
and Soviet espionage postwar 313–16, 317–19
as spymaster (‘M’) 41, 42–3, 45–7, 70, 71, 129, 146, 148, 156, 169, 182, 192, 200, 217, 222–3, 241, 251, 253, 300–1, 304–5, 334, 335, 338–9, 343—4; see ‘M Section’
as television show host 326, 328, 329; Countrywise 327; Good Companions 325
undercover in British Fascist movement 22–3, 25–8, 31, 48, 52; at Lambeth Baths rally (1924) 33, 34, 35, 37; and kidnapping of Pollitt 39, 41; raids on Glasgow Communist Party headquarters 40–41, 52; after the General Strike 57–9; leaves BF 117–18
in wartime: and Home Office refusal to authorise internment 276, 288–9, 291–2, 293; interrogation of Fascists 309—10; works for Special Operation Executive 309; and D-Day landings 310
as writer 16, 94, 113–15, 143–4, 159, 199, 326, 327, 328, 330, 331
Knight, Robert (uncle) 12, 15, 53
Knight, Susi (formerly Barnes; 3rd wife) 331–2
‘Knight’s Black Agents’ 305—6, see ‘M Section’
Koestler, Arthur 122
Kurtz, Harold 220–21, 222, 293, 306, 307, 309, 340
Labouchere, Colonel Frank 299
Labour Monthly 110, 111
Labour Party 31–2, 36, 38, 67, 70, 117, 317, 319; MPs 38, 117, 135;
see also Driberg, Tom; MacDonald, James Ramsay
LAI see League Against Imperialism
Lang, Fritz: Spione 83
Larkin, Philip: ‘For Sidney Bechet’ 13
LaRocca, Nick 14
Lazarus, Jack 33, 135
League Against Imperialism (LAI) 121, 122, 124, 137, 163
League of Nations 122, 157
Leather, Mrs (daily) 249
Le Carré, John (David Cornwell) 93, 94, 253, 319–20, 324, 327; A Perfect Spy 93, 124, 158, 319, 320; Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 93
‘Lend-Lease’ 277
Lenin, V. I. 105
Le Queux, William: The Invasion of 1910 240
Liddell, Guy 136, 137; goes to Nazi Germany 136–8, 228; clashes with Home Office over mass internment 238–40, 241, 274, 275–6; fails to show M’s report on Tyler Kent to Americans 273–4; at Home Office meeting on internment of British Fascists 288–9; on Churchill’s views on internment 291, 292; on stress suffered by agents 168; and Anna Wolkoff’s trial 296; on agents provocateurs 299–300; on MI5 training 304; critical of M Section 304; and release of Ben Greene 307; agrees with M over Soviet espionage 315–16; on the future of intelligence gathering 318
Link, The 225, 309
Lintorn-Orman, Blanche 23–4
Lintorn-Orman, Rotha 23–4, 26–7, 117
Litvinov, Maxim 45
Liverpool K section: Pollitt kidnap 38–9, 47
Lloyd George, David 18
London International Press 194
London Zoo 122, 326, 334
Long, Breckinridge 295
Look (BBC television) 326
Loveday, Arthur 247
Luke, Celia 314, 315
‘M’ see Knight, Maxwell
‘M Section’: creation of 78, 87–8, 97–8; agents 153, 198; female agents 91, 103–4, 112, 165, 337–8, and see Gaertner, Friedl; Gray, Olga; Mackie, Marjorie; Maund, Mona; Miller, Joan; Munck, Hélène de; Tesch, Kathleen; male agents 90–91, and see Bingham, John; Dickson, Jimmy; Driberg, Tom; Hancock-Nunn, Vivian; Joyce, William; Kurtz, Harold; Le Carré, John; Kurtz, Harold; Mandeville-Roe, E. G.; Pollard, Graham; Roberts, Eric; Sykes, Claud; Younger, Bill; spies arrested see Glading, Percy; Kent, Tyler; Wolkoff, Anna; in wartime 241, 305—6, 316; introduction of basic training 303—4; and Ben Greene 306–8