Trevor Barnes - Dead Doubles

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To my wonderful wife, Sally Gaminara

In the higher ranges of Secret Service work, the actual facts of many cases were in every respect equal to the most fantastic inventions of romance and melodrama. Tangle within tangle, plot and counter-plot, ruse and treachery, cross and double-cross, true agent... were interwoven in many a texture so intricate as to be incredible yet true.

Winston Churchill

Each mark Ive made, my every feature,

Each dates removed as by a hand, erased:

A soul that once was born somewhere.

So it is my country couldnt keep

Me and the most clever, keenest detective,

Studying my soul, however deep,

Wont find it out my hidden birthmark.

Marina Tsvetayeva

Longing for the motherland

Contents

A2: MI5 technical support section

A4: MI5s watchers department

AUWE: Admiralty Underwater Weapons Establishment (which subsumed UDE in an autumn 1960 reorganisation)

BOB: Berlin Operations Base (CIA HQ in West Berlin)

CIA: Central Intelligence Agency

D Branch: MI5 counter-espionage

D1: MI5 Soviet counter-espionage. Also the abbreviation for the Director of D1, Arthur Martin

D2: MI5 Polish and Czech counter-espionage. Also the abbreviation for the Director of D2, David Whyte

DDNI: Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence (UK)

DG: Director General of MI5

DNI: Director of Naval Intelligence (UK)

FBI: Federal Bureau of Investigation

FCD: First Chief Directorate of the KGB (responsible for foreign intelligence)

FSB: intelligence agency responsible for domestic security and counter-espionage in Russia from 1991

GCHQ: Government Communications Headquarters, the UKs intelligence and security organisation responsible for providing signals intelligence (SIGINT) and information to the government and armed forces

JIC: Joint Intelligence Committee

MI6: the UKs foreign intelligence agency

NSA: National Security Agency, the USAs equivalent of GCHQ

NZSS: New Zealand Security Service

OP: observation post (MI5 abbreviation)

OTP: one-time pad (cipher pad)

RCMP: Royal Canadian Mounted Police (Canadas intelligence as well as law-enforcement agency)

RIS: Russian Intelligence Service (MI5 acronym)

SIS: Secret Intelligence Service another name for MI6

SLO: security liaison officer (MI5)

SVR: the foreign intelligence service of the Russian Federation from 1991

UB: Urzd Bezpieczestwa, security service in post-war communist Poland

UDE: Underwater Detection Establishment, Portland

Abel, Rudolf: KGB illegal in USA (real name Willie Fisher)

Angleton, James Jesus: head of CIA counter-intelligence

Asya: KGB code-name for Ethel Gee

Austen, Captain Nigel: British naval attach in Warsaw 19512

Baker, Molly: a London business partner of Lonsdale

Belmont, Alan: head of the FBIs Domestic Intelligence Division from 1951

Bevision (or Vision): CIA code-name for agent who provided first tip-off about Houghton

Bonsall, Arthur Bill: GCHQ head of Z Division

Bowers, Michael: a London business partner of Lonsdale

Brook, Sir Norman: Cabinet Secretary 194762

Butler, Richard Austen (Rab): Home Secretary 195762

Carrington, Lord Peter: First Lord of the Admiralty

Caswell, John F.: deputy chief of CIA London station

Cohen, Lona: real name of Helen Kroger, code-named Mrs Killjoy (MI5) and Dachniki (KGB)

Cohen, Morris: real name of Peter Kroger, code-named Killjoy (MI5) and Dachniki (KGB)

Colfer, William Bill: D1 officer who worked with Elwell on the Lonsdale investigation

Craggs, James: MI5 case officer in D2 (pseudonym at request of Security Service sources)

Cumming, Malcom: MI5 Director of A Branch (General Services)

Dachniki: KGB code-name for Krogers while based at Ruislip

Denning, Admiral Nigel: Director of Naval Intelligence

Douglas-Home, Alec (Lord Home): UK Prime Minister 19634

Dozhdalev, Vasili: KGB officer based in Russian embassy in London

Dust Cover: MI5 code-name for the OP at the house of Bill and Ruth Search in Ruislip

Elwell, Charles: MI5 officer in counter-espionage D Branch

Feklisov, Alexander: KGB officer in New York

Ferguson Smith, Chief Inspector: Metropolitan Police Special Branch

Fisher, Willie: real name of KGB illegal in USA known as Rudolf Abel

Fuchs, Klaus: German KGB spy in Los Alamos

Furnival Jones, Martin: head of MI5 counter-espionage, D Branch, known as D

Gee, Ethel Bunty: clerk in UDE drawing office, girlfriend of Houghton, code-named Trellis (MI5) and Asya (KGB)

Glass, Ann: maiden name of MI5 officer who married Charles Elwell

Gold, Harry: American KGB spy who acted as courier for Klaus Fuchss atomic secrets

Goleniewski, Micha: important CIA asset in Polish intelligence

Greenglass, David: American KGB spy at Los Alamos (brother of Ethel Rosenberg)

Grist, Evelyn: head of MI5s transcription section, A2A

Hall, Ted: KGB spy at Los Alamos

Hollis, Roger: Director General (DG) of MI5

Hoover, J. Edgar: Director of the FBI

Houghton, Harry: clerk at UDE, code-named Reverberate (MI5) and Shah (KGB)

Johnson, Olive Peggy: divorced wife of Harry Houghton

Kennedy, John: President of the USA 196063

Kroger, Helen: cover name of Lona Cohen

Kroger, Peter: cover name of Morris Cohen

Killjoy(s): MI5 code-name for Peter Kroger/the Krogers

Last Act: MI5 code-name for Gordon Lonsdale

Lavinia: MI5 code-name for CIA agent (Goleniewski) who provided tip-off about Houghton

Leggett, George: MI5 officer in D2

Lonsdale, Gordon: KGB illegal working undercover in the UK (real name Konon Molody)

Macmillan, Harold: Prime Minister of the UK 195763

Manningham-Buller, Sir Reginald: Attorney General (UK)

Martin, Arthur: MI5, Director of D1 (Soviet counter-espionage), known as D1

Mitchell, Graham: MI5 Deputy Director General (DDG)

Molody, Konon: real identity of Gordon Lonsdale, code-named Last Act (MI5)

Moore, Bridget: MI5 secretary, later wife of David Whyte

Pavlov, Vitali: KGB officer in Illegals Directorate S, deputy chief 19549, when appointed chief

Pigot, Tony: Deputy Director of UK Naval Intelligence

Reverberate: MI5 code-name for Harry Houghton

Roman, Howard: CIA operations officer based in Washington DC

Romer, Sir Charles: chair of the Romer Inquiry, 1962

Rosenberg, Ethel and Julius: American KGB spies during and after the Second World War, who helped to handle the network of KGB spies in the Manhattan Project

Semyonov, Semyon: KGB controller of Cohens in New York 194044

Shah: KGB code-name for Harry Houghton

Shergold, Harold: head of MI6 Sovbloc section, Russian intelligence specialist

Skardon, William Jim: head of A4, MI5s watchers

Smith, Superintendent George G.: Metropolitan Police Special Branch

Sniper: FBI code-name for the CIA agent who provided tip-off about Houghton, real name Michal Goleniewski

Sokolov, Yuri: KGB controller of Cohens in New York, 194750

Trellis: MI5 code-name for Ethel Gee

Vision (or Bevision): CIA code-name for its agent who provided tip-off about Houghton

Watford, Alfred: UDE, recipient of anti-Semitic letter

White, Sir Richard Dick: head of MI6 (or SIS), known as C

Whyte, David: Director of D2, Polish and Czech counter-espionage at MI5, known as D2