The Baghdad Set_ Iraq through the Eyes of British Intelligence, 1941–45
9 intercultural awareness or even sensibility. However, their knowledge of the secret world, where they might have applied such ...
10 avowed any such covert role by insisting that she was but a nonentity, a mere traveller, and besides that just a woman. The t ...
11 in the region was originally inspired to some degree by the formidable achievements of that other great scout, Gertrude Bell ...
12 writer, beginning with her first trip to Syria in December 1927, Freya Stark was discreetly scouting for king and country, pr ...
13 fruitlessly infatuated, and who would cause her much emotional pain over the years), appears to have officially evaluated her ...
14 legends inevitably depreciate, becoming ever more transparent and implausible. This partly explains why SIS will not release ...
15 a dreamer, and definitely no one’s stereotype.^38 That she worked during the Second World War for MOI is indisputable; that s ...
16 more in response to an equally courteous directive with which Churchill had briefed Cornwallis: ‘You should make every effort ...
17 before and during the Second World War. All of them, once encountered, would remain Stark’s lifelong friends. Adrian Bishop w ...
18 generous friends (and family) for his economic survival. Yet it now seems obvious that the hidden hand and secret vote of Bri ...
19 for geographic exploration can mask many different levels of espionage activity. Unlike the tourist, the professional explore ...
20 could easily lead to bickering over responsibilities and funding; however, they were quite common among clandestine agencies ...
21 Christopher Sykes. Though all of them competed for Stark’s services, she remained an employee of MOI until leaving Iraq in 19 ...
22 And then, quite suddenly, 18 months later, Adrian Bishop was gone. As much as his friends, not least Freya Stark, and his fam ...
23 Of Stark’s three biographers, Molly Izzard, who was herself a wartime intelligence professional (she was a black propagandis ...
24 Military Mission on Crete, stressing that he would still be a D employee ‘on D’s books.’ See Atkin, Section D, Appendix 2, 15 ...
25 31 August 1939, Container 20.5 (Harry St John Philby), Series II Correspondence, 1893–1985, Harry Ransom Center, The Universi ...
26 File 4/2 (1.a/50) M.E.I.C. Publicity, IOR/R/15/2/926, India Office Records, British Library (St Pancras, London) [BL]. MI4 ...
27 with the job of extracting vital naval intelligence from an important mili- tary prisoner, nor would she have obtained his te ...
28 Known as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) until 1935, the Anglo- Iranian Oil Company (AIOC) became British Petroleum (BP ...
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