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MI5

BRITISH SECURITY

SERVICE OPERATIONS

19091945

MI5

BRITISH SECURITY

SERVICE OPERATIONS

19091945

NIGEL WEST

Frontline Books

MI5: BRITISH SECURITY SERVICE OPERATIONS, 19091945

The True Story of the Most Secret Counter-Espionage Organisation in the World

This edition published in 2019 by Frontline Books,

an imprint of Pen & Sword Books Ltd,

47 Church Street, Barnsley, S. Yorkshire, S70 2AS

First published by The Bodley Head Ltd., 1981.

Copyright Nigel West

ISBN: 978-1-52675-570-4

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Contents

Acknowledgements

I owe a debt of thanks to the following:

The former members of the Security Service, the Secret Intelligence Service, the Naval Intelligence Department, the Radio Security Service, the Joint Intelligence Committee, the Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre, MI9 and the Security Executive who were kind enough to tell me of their wartime experiences.

The former members of the American Office of Strategic Services and the Irish Intelligence Service, G2.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency.

The MI5 double agents who granted me interviews, including BALLOON, BRUTUS, DREADNOUGHT, FREAK, GARBO, GELATINE, JEFF, METEOR, MUTT, TATE, TRICYCLE and ZIGZAG.

The family of SUMMER.

The four former MI5 officers who read my manuscript.

Rear-Admiral W.N. Ash of the Ministry of Defences D Notice Committee for his guidance.

The Departmental Records Office and the Service archivists who patiently answered my questions.

The Chief Constables of Essex, Greater Manchester, Northamptonshire, South Wales and Strathclyde who authorized searches of their records.

The staff of the Public Records Office in Kew, the Imperial War Museum, the British Museum, the Hoover Institute at Stanford University and the Netherlands State Institute for War Documentation.

The Embassies of Belgium, Luxembourg, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.

Julian Allason of ACT for his data processing skills.

John Moe in Sweden (himself a wartime double agent) who devoted many hours of his spare time to this project, as did Detective Joseph J. Gannon of the New York Police Department.

Sir William Stephenson, H. Montgomery Hyde, Winston Ramsey, and Professor M.R.D. Foot for their encouragement.

My researchers, Veronique LeJeune in Brussels, Maria Vidal in Spain and Camilla Van Gerbig in London.

Venetia Pollock for her editorial skills.

Abbreviations

BRCA	Bureau Central de Renseignements et dAction
BSC	British Security Co-ordination, New York
BUF	British Union of Fascists
BUPO	Bundespolizei: Swiss Security Service
C	Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)
CID	Committee of Imperial Defence
CID	Criminal Investigation Department
COS	Chiefs of Staff
CPGB	Communist Party of Great Britain
CSDIC	Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre
DMI	Director of Military Intelligence
DNI	Director of Naval Intelligence
DPP	Director of Public Prosecutions
DSO	Defence Security Officer
FBI	Federal Bureau of Investigation
FSP	Field Security Police
FSW	Field Security Wing
FUSAG	First United States Army Group
G2	Irish Military Intelligence Department
GC & CS	Government Code & Cypher School
GPO	General Post Office
GPU	Soviet Military Intelligence
GSP	Gibraltar Security Police
HDE	Home Defence Executive
IPI	Indian Political Intelligence
IRA	Irish Republican Army
ISK	Intelligence Services Knox
ISLU	Inter-Services Liaison Unit (MI6)
ISOS	Intelligence Services Oliver Strachey
JIC	Joint Intelligence Committee
LDV	Local Defence Volunteers
LIU	Letter Interception Unit
MEW	Ministry of Economic Warfare
MOI	Ministry of Information
NID	Naval Intelligence Department
NKVD	Soviet Security Service
NYPD	New York Police Department
001	Camp 001, HM Prison Dartmoor
020	Camp 020, Latchmere House, Ham Common
OGPU	Soviet Political Intelligence Service
OSS	Office of Strategic Services
PCO	Passport Control Office
PIDE	Portuguese Security Service
POW	Prisoner of War
PWIS	Prisoner of War Interrogation Service
PUS	Permanent Under-Secretary
RSHA	Reich Security Agency
RSLO	Regional Security Liaison Officer
RSS	Radio Security Service (MI8)
RUC	Royal Ulster Constabulary
RVPS	Royal Victoria Patriotic School
SD	Sicherheitsdeinst: Nazi Security Service
SHAEF	Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force

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