The Baghdad Set_ Iraq through the Eyes of British Intelligence, 1941–45

xxv 2 i/c second in command AA Auswärtiges Amt [see also GFO] AB Arabisches Büro [= ex-Mufti’s Arab Bureau] Abw Abwehr Abw I H A ...

xxvi ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS B1A, B1a MI5 counterespionage section administering double agents B1B, B1b MI5 counterespionage ...

ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS xxvii DDMI Deputy Director of Military Intelligence DDSP Deputy Director of Special Planning (or Prop ...

xxviii ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS GSI(R) G(R) GSO General Staff Officer HBM His (Her) Britannic Majesty(’s) HE His (Her) Excelle ...

ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS xxix LRDG Long Range Desert Group LSB Lignes Syriennes de Baghdad MBE Member of the Order of the Brit ...

xxx ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS OKH Oberkommando des Heeres [= supreme command of the German army] OKW Oberkommando der Wehrmacht ...

ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS xxxi RIN Royal Indian Navy RINR Royal Indian Naval Reserve RM Royal Marines; Reichsmark [currency] RN ...

xxxii ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS UKCC United Kingdom Commercial Corporation UNISA University of South Africa USAAF United States ...

xxxiii chroNology 29 Feb 1932 Fritz Grobba arrives in Baghdad as German chargé d’affaires. Mar 1939 Sir Basil Newton appointed B ...

xxxiv CHRONOLOGY 11 Oct 1942 Adrian Bishop dies in freak accident at Shemiran hotel. 3 Nov 1942 Germans and Italians begin retre ...

xxxv Fig. 1.1 Diplomatic privilege: Sir Kinahan Cornwallis and his embassy staff. Baghdad, 1940s. Source: GB165-0228 Perowne Alb ...

xxxvi LIST OF FIGURES Fig. 6.2 Cigarette break in the British embassy garden, 1943. From (l) to (r): Hanbury Dawson-Shepherd and ...

© The Author(s) 2019 1 A. O’Sullivan, The Baghdad Set, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15183-6_1 CHAPTER 1 Prologue: Of Spies, ...

2 rugby prop-forward, with a loud, booming voice—towered over the diminutive Stark. Openly homosexual but celibate, and very mas ...

3 synonymous with intelligence ‘officers’: the former are usually contracted externally and rewarded by an intelligence ‘agency’ ...

4 And how wondrously diverse were the roles these participants played and how varied the covert spaces they inhabited. Imagine p ...

5 However, our story begins years before the wartime mushrooming of secret military or quasimilitary competencies and formations ...

6 who created the worldwide civilian scouting movement on the basis of his experiences as an army intelligencer in South Africa ...

7 were inherently dangerous, neither the scout nor his or her genuine pur- suits—cover activities such as teaching English, rese ...

8 post-Edwardian era that they had little opportunity to prepare for any occupation other than that of wife and mother. They wer ...