‘M/1’ see Pollard, Graham
‘M/2’ see Maund, Mona
‘M/3’ see Dickson, Jimmy
‘M/4’ 109, 146, 230–31
‘M/5’ (Glaswegian gun examiner) 42–3, 90, 127, 136, 144, 146, 181, 208
‘M/7’ see Hancock-Nunn, Vivian
‘M/8’ see Driberg, Tom
‘M/12’ see Gray, Olga
‘M/A’ 252
‘Macaroni, Mr’ see Del Monte, Duke
Macartney, Wilfred 67, 191
McCall, Joseph 40–41, 42, 47
McClure, George 296
MacDonald, James Ramsay 31, 36, 67–8, 132, 173
Mackie, Marjorie (‘M/Y’) 242, 293, 337; infiltrates Right Club 242, 243, 244, 246–7; interested in spiritualism 256; gathers information on Anna Wolkoff 247, 248, 249, 254–6, 257–8, 260, 267, 276–8, 282, 285, and Tyler Kent 262, 273, 282, 285; hears of Right Club sympathisers in the police 282; testifies at Wolkoff—Kent trial 296; M proud of 296; life after MI5 339
Maclean, Donald 128, 179, 318, 319, 320–21
McMeakin, Elsie 100
MacNab, Angus 224, 298–9
Mail on Sunday 342
Maisky, Ivan 237
Makgill, Sir Donald (‘Don’) 20, 25–6, 27, 28, 31, 42, 50, 51, 139–40
Makgill, Sir George 18, 19, 68; relationship with Desmond Morton 49–50; sets up intelligence agency 20–21, 22, 50, 71 (see Makgill Organisation); meeting with M (1923) 7–10, 17; and British Fascisti 22–3, 26, 75; horrified by Labour government 31–2; impressed by Max 31; organises Economic League–’K’ coalition 32–3; death 59
Makgill Organisation 20–21, 22, 25–6, 27, 36, 41 –2, 44, 50, 51, 53, 59, 97–8, 245
Maly, Theodor (‘Mr Peters’) 178, 179, 180, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 203, 219
Manchester Evening News 159
Manchester Guardian 207
Mandeville-Roe, E. Geoffrey (‘M/R’) 117, 118, 139, 193–4, 195, 196, 222, 293, 339
Marina, Princess of Kent 248
Martin, Edith 100
Mass Observation 231
Masters, Anthony 342; The Man Who Was M 331
Matthews, Leo Harrison 334–5
Matthias, Ludwig 265, 266, 272, 279
Maud, Princess of Fife (Lady Carnegie) 247
Maude, John, KC 340
Maugham, William Somerset 137; Ashenden: Or the British Agent 78
Maund, Captain 217
Maund, Mona (‘M/2’) 104, 109, 130, 146, 214–19, 256, 319, 337, 339
Maxwell, Sir Alexander 239, 288
Maxwell Knight Memorial Fund 336
Maxwell Knight Young Naturalists’ Library 336
May, Alan Nunn 318
Mayne, Ferdy 114
‘M/B’ 252
‘M/C’ 241, 319
‘M/D’ 252
Medical Supply Association 292
Melville, william 78
Menezes, Rogerio 309
Menzies, Ian 221, 334
Menzies, Stewart 221
Meredith, Frederick 109
‘M/F’ see Roberts, Eric
‘M/H’ see Kurtz, Harold
‘M/I’ see Munck, Hélène de
MI5 xiii, 240–41; employs Mussolini (1917) 24; heads/Director Generals see Kell, Sir Vernon, Petrie, Sir David, Sillitoe, Percy; and Makgill Organisation 20; former officers 47; relaxed about K 48, 51; suspicious of British Fascists 48; postwar cuts and staff reduction 50; and ARCOS raid (1927) 66; arrests Soviet agents in Special Branch 67; unprofessional intelligence gathering 73; relations with MI6 and Special Branch 74–5, 76; renamed the Security Service xiii, 76–7; tasked with investigating Communist movement 76–7, 87, 129, 138, 149–50, 164, 172, 213–14; and Invergordon Mutiny (1931) 86–7; headquarters (‘The Office’) on Cromwell Road 88–9, 97, 127, 198, 200; information regarding Communist Party ‘strictly limited’ 89–90; naming of agents 100; and Glading/Woolwich Arsenal case 119, 120, 121, 149, 181, 183, 190–91, 203–4; Jimmy Dickson as agent (see entry) 125–6, 127; attitude to Fascist movement 136–9, 152, 153, 157, 161, 171–2, 196; watchers’ methods ‘very unscientific’ 183–4; wages 211; demands internment without trial 196–7; fails to arrest Melita Norwood 217–19; changes in recruitment 314; and German espionage 220, 224, 265; ‘Double Cross’ deception 230, 303; battles with Home Office over mass internment 238–41, 274, 275–6, 278–9, 288–93, 300–2; and wartime ‘spy fever’ 271; official histories 313, 319; and ‘Cambridge Spies’ and further Soviet espionage 313–16, 318, 319; and Zionist terrorists 317; bugs Communist Party headquarters 318; and Driberg 321–3; and Security Service Act (1989) 337; and the ‘Waldegrave Initiative’ 337; former agent appeals against murder conviction 168; see also ‘M Section’
MI6 xiii, 71, 241; and Zinoviev Letter 36; head (‘C’) 78, see Sinclair, Sir Hugh, see also Menzies, Stewart; Production section run by Desmond Morton (see entry) 49; suggests MI5’s staff be reduced 50; and ARCOS raid 66; shares Makgill’s agents 50–51; and arrest of Soviet agents in Special Branch 67; and use of Max and his agent network 68–70, 72–4; ‘outright warfare’ with Special Branch 74–6; and ‘Treaty of Westminster’ 76–7, 88, 126; and Glading 119; undercover agents 221, 224, 247, 339; and M’s encroachment on Belgian territory 273, 300; and Soviet moles 316, 323, 324
Military Censorship 246, 249, 256
Miller, Joan 256–7, 276, 277, 296
Minehead: Madame Miranda (beauty salon) 160
miners/Miners’ Federation 56, 57
Ministry of Labour 126
Mirren, Dame Helen 267
Mitcham, Surrey 10; Mitcham Common 11, 61
Mitchell, Harold, MP 247
Mitford, Unity 134, 247
Mitford sisters see Guinness, Diana; Mitford, Unity
‘M/M’ 252
Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact (1939) 228, 229, 230, 231
Montagu, Ivor 327–8
Morning Post 24
Morris, Desmond 328, 336
Morton, Desmond 49, 50–52, 53, 66–70, 72–5, 76, 77, 291–2, 293, 300
Mosley, Sir Oswald 132–3, 144; with Mussolini in Rome 117, 135, 136; launches new Fascist party (see British Union of Fascists) 117, 118; impressed by Joyce 133, 134, 135; supported by Lord Rothermere 139; performs at Fascist rally in Olympia (1934) 151; strengthens relationships with Mussolini and Hitler 154, 157, 161, 162, 170, 171; British public turns against 171; delivers inflammatory speeches 172; forces Joyce out of BUF 200; ‘our time is approaching’ 259; appeals to ‘patriotism’ of BUF members 288; and Captain Ramsay 285, 289; imprisoned 290; appears as character witness for Anna Wolkoff 296–7; unable to relaunch postwar political career 293
‘M/R’ see Mandeville-Roe, E. G.
‘M/S’ see Sykes, Claud
‘M/T’ see Tesch, Kathleen
Muggeridge, Malcolm 263
Munck, Hélène de 252–4, 256–8, 262, 268–70, 272–3, 285, 293, 296, 300, 337, 339
Munday, Charles 204, 217–18; trial 208–9, 210
Munich Crisis (1938) 223, 224, 228–9
Munzenberg, Willi 105, 106
Mussolini, Benito 24, 60, 75; and Mosley 117, 135; and funding of British Union of Fascists 139, 140, 154, 162, 171; supported by BUF 170; meets Mandeville-Roe 194; and Ribbentrop 258; and Del Monte 278
‘M/Y’ see Mackie, Marjorie
National Archives 337
National Fascisti 59
‘National’ Government 83
National Zeitung 196
Natural History Museum 88, 336
Naturalist, The (BBC radio) 326, 327
Naturalists’ Notebook (BBC radio) 326
Nature Parliament (BBC radio) 326
Nazi Party 117, 133, 134, 137–8, 157, 173, 223, 256, 271–2, 281, 300; in London 196, 229–30; see also Hitler, Adolf
New York Times 207
News Chronicle 220
Nicholas II, Tsar 248, 253
Nieuwenhuys, Jean 255–6, 273
NKVD (People�
�s Commissariat for Internal Affairs) 178–82, 185, 186, 187–9, 191, 203, 218–19, 272, 315, 321
Noakes, S. H. 308
Nordic League 232
Norwood, Melita 217–19
Nuremberg, Germany: ‘Day of Victory’ celebrations (1933) 134; Trials 340
Observer 24
‘Office, The’ 88–9, 171, 238, 340; M refuses to run ‘M Section’ from 97, 127, 198, 200, 317; attitudes to M 118, 130, 177, 244, 318, 319; and Anna Wolkoff 247, 255; and Soviet moles 314, 316, 323–4
Official Secrets Act 136, 297, 315, 318, 323
Original Dixieland Jazz Band 14
Orwell, George 210
Overseas Club, London 174–5
Parker, Andrew 93
Peace Pledge Union 238, 306
Pearson, Inspector Joseph 2–3, 284
Pepys, Mark see Cottenham, Earl of
Petrie, Sir David 304
Philby, Kim 128, 179, 187, 188, 210, 313
Pilcher, Toby 278
Pincher, Chapman 323
Poland 228, 229, 240, 246, 300
police, the: on strike 19; and K’s raid on Glasgow Communist Party headquarters 40–41, 47; and ARCOS raid 66–7; pass and receive MI5 intelligence 90, 100, 193; enter Daily Worker offices 128; and Fascist movement 136, 138, 276, 301; and intelligence operations 191–2; and Glading’s arrest 205, 209, 217; allow Joyce to escape to Germany 232; wartime arrests 309; infiltrated by Right Club sympathisers 282; see also Special Branch
Pollard, A. F. 102, 103
Pollard, Graham 99–103, 109, 127, 128–9, 169, 181; An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets (with Carter) 145–6
Pollard, Kathleen see Beauchamp, Kathleen
Pollitt, Harry 38–9, 41, 47, 141–3, 146, 149, 163, 164–5, 169, 180
Pontecorvo, Bruno 318
Popov, Dusko (‘TRICYCLE’) 230
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 168, 342–3
Poston, Guy 305, 332
Pritt, Denis, KC 209, 210
PTSD see post-traumatic stress disorder
Putlitz, Wolfgang zu 220
Pyle, Dolly 83, 84, 85
Quennell, Peter: The Marble Foot 102–3
Radley, Ellen 194
Radley Forensic Document Laboratory 194
Rag Tiger (record) 14
Ramsay, Hon. Captain Archibald Maule, MP (‘Jock’) 242–4, 247, 254, 259, 272, 273, 285, 289, 290, 296
Ramsay, Mrs 243, 246, 254
Redesdale, David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron 247
Retallick, Rita 156–7, 167
Ribbentrop, Joachm ‘von’ 137, 228, 258
Riddell, Enid 277
Right Club 242–3, 244, 246, 247, 248, 252, 254, 256, 258, 259, 260, 262, 267, 270, 273, 276, 277, 282, 289, 338; Red Book 285, 286, 289
Roberts, Eric (‘Jack King’; ‘M/F’): childhood 151–2; self-improvement 151; recruited by M 44–5, 293; first assignment 45; relationship with M 45–6; infiltrates British Communist Party 151; and Ivor Montagu 327; reactivated by M 151, 152, 193; honeymoons in Nazi Germany 152; infiltrates British Union of Fascists 152–8, 159, 160–61, 162, 196, 224; reports on Edith Tudor-Hart 184; infiltrates the Right Club 242; suspects Anthony Blunt 315; infiltrates right-wing groups as Gestapo officer 43–4, 299–300; suffers PTSD 342; becomes MI5 officer 340–41; emigrates to Canada 341; on Olga Gray; on Joyce 200, 201; MI5 files released 43–4
Roberts, Maxwell 341
Roesel, Dr Gottfried 196
Roosevelt, President Franklin D. 186, 297; correspondence with Churchill compromised 2, 265, 266, 272, 277–8, 295, 297, 338
Rothermere, Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount 139
Rothschild, Victor 114
Runyon, Damon 114
St James’s Park Underground Station 70, 73
Saklatvala, Shapurji, MP 31, 32, 35
Saville, Victor: The W. Plan 83
Schlesinger, James 93
Schubatow, Prince 261
Scott, Peter 326, 330, 336
Scott, Sir Robert Russell 136
Scrimgeour, Alex 171
séances 199–200
Seaton, Reginald 175—6
Secret Service Bureau 240–41
Secret Service Committee 75, 76, 118, 127
Security Service 76–7
Security Service Act (1989) 337
Selsey, Rosamund 200
Shakespeare, William: Macbeth 305
Shields, Jimmy 127–8
Sillitoe, Percy 317
Simons, Stanley 212
Simpson, Wallis 248
Sinclair, Sir Hugh (‘C’) 68–9, 75, 76, 78, 118
Sisman, Adam: John Le Carré 319
Sloane Street (No. 38) 96–7, 156, 198
Smith, Harry 314–15
Smith, William ‘Crickett’ 147
Snowden, Edward 266
SOE see Special Operations Executive
Soviet Union 19, 20, 23, 49, 66, 87, 172, 228, 230, 238, 243, 303, 337; ambassadors 45, 237; defectors 67, 90; and ARCOS raid 66–7; diplomatic relations restored 67–8; espionage/agents 66, 67, 68, 109, 130, 164–5, 168, 185, 191–2, 217–19, 316, 328, see also ‘Cambridge Spies’; Glading, Percy; Kent, Tyler; Wolkoff, Anna; front organisations 121–3; London safe house 183, 184; Navy 185–6; first atomic bomb test 318; see also Comintern; Friends of the Soviet Union; NKVD; Stalin, Joseph
Spanish Civil War (1936–8) 180, 220, 240
Special Branch, Metropolitan Police 51; makes payments to agents 47, 51; infiltrated by Soviet spies 67; instructed to scale back operations against British Communist Party 67–8; bypassed by Desmond Morton 68, 72; and Max’s lunches with Lt-Colonel Carter 72–4, 77, 333; ‘outright warfare’ with MI6 74–5; and the ‘Treaty of Westminster’ 76–7; wrecks recruitment of Communist Party informants 108; and Glading 119, 120, 205; and Fascist movement 136, 172, 301; reports that Max warned Joyce of imminent arrest 244; and Kent–Wolkoff arrests 1–3, 267, 268, 270, 282–6, 296; and mass internment 276, 278; against use of agents provocateurs 299
Special Operations Executive (SOE) 309, 334
Speyer, Sir Edgar 18
spiritualism 199, 256–7, 339
Springball, Douglas 315
Stalin, Joseph 149, 150, 185–6, 228, 229, 231
‘Stalin’s Terror’ 188
Stapleton, Irma 308
‘Stephens, Mr and Mrs’ see Borovoy, Mikhail
Stern Gang (Zionist group) 317
Stirling, Aubrey 89
Straits Times 159
Sunday Times 320–21
Suschitzky, Wolf 327
Sussex Agricultural Express 42
Sykes, Claud (‘M/S’) 195–6, 293, 339
Tangye, Derek 316
Teagarden, Jack 311
Tesch, Kathleen (‘M/T’) 225–7, 293, 337, 339
Tesch, Leonard Robert 225, 226
Thames House: The Office 198
Thistlethwaite, Dick 97–8
Thomas, Joe 165
Thompson, E. P. 323
Time magazine 206, 207
Times, The 24, 32, 34, 102, 146
‘Tony’ see Blunt, Anthony
Trades Union Congress 57, 136
trade unions 19, 20, 27, 28, 146, 319
Treachery Act (1940) 290
‘Treaty of Westminster’ 76, 88, 126
Trenchard, Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount 136
Trevor-Roper, Hugh 316
‘TRICYCLE’ see Popov, Dusko
‘Trilby’ see Ewer, William
Truth (periodical) 159
Tucker, Mr Justice 297, 311
Tudor-Hart, Edith 156–7, 184, 187–8, 327
Tudor-Hart, Miss H. B. 156
Tythegston Court, Wales 9, 10, 61
unemployment 19, 69, 83, 132, 139
United Services Club 69
Vernon, Wilfred 109
Victoria Tutorial College, London 116
Vivian, Valentine 217
Vogue (magazine) 248
‘Waldegrave Initiative’ 33
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Wall Street Crash (1929) 69
Wandsworth prison 311
War Book 196–7, 239, 293
Washington Post 206
Waugh, Evelyn 103
Week in Westminster, The (BBC radio) 321
Weidenfeld & Nicolson (publishers) 322
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 5th Duke of 247
West, Nigel 315; Mask 164; MI5 305
Western Morning News 177
Westminster Bank 44, 151, 154, 160, 161, 171
Whaddon, Buckinghamshire 226
Wheatley, Dennis 199, 222, 229
Wheen, Francis: Tom Driberg 321, 322
White, Dick 177
White, John Baker 8, 17, 20, 74–5, 90
Whiteman, Paul 13
Whomack, George 191, 204; trial 208–9, 210
Wilhelmshaven Mutiny, Germany (1918) 87
Willetts, Paul: Rendez-vous at the Russian Tea Rooms 282, 283
Williams, Albert: trial 208–9, 210
Willingdon, Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of, Viceroy of India 173
Willington School, Putney 16, 27, 52
Winter, Sir Ormonde 52
Wintringham, Tom 128
Withypool, Devon: Royal Oak Hotel 61–2, 69, 115, 118, 160
Wodehouse, P. G. 171
Wolkoff, Alexander 260
Wolkoff, Anna ‘de’ 247–8; angry at collapse of her business 248; introduced to Mrs Mackie 248; puts up posters undermining the war effort 248; boasts she can get uncensored messages out of the country 249; under surveillance by Mrs Mackie 254–5, 256; and Hélène de Munck 252, 253, 257–8; applies to Kell for a job at MI5 255; meets Kell and M 260–62; connection with Tyler Kent 262, 266–7, 272–3; given envelope for Joyce by J. McGuirk Hughes 268–70, 297, 300, 306; linked with Kent by M 273–4; obtains information from Churchill–Roosevelt correspondence 277–8; arrested 279–80, 282, 283, 284, 285, 287, 291; trial 295, 296–8, 339; sentenced 297
Wolkoff, Admiral Nikolai 248, 249, 252, 253, 268
Wollic, Sir William 175
Woman’s Hour (BBC radio) 326
Woolf, Virginia 229
Woolwich Arsenal 120, 130–31, 149, 180, 181; ‘spy ring’ 185, 191, 204, 206, 208–9, 213, 338
Worcester, HMS 9, 12, 115
Workers Press Commission 101
Working Class Movement Library, Manchester 215
Younger, Bill 229, 241, 305
Zinoviev Letter 36, 50
Zoological Society of London 327–8
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