The Baghdad Set_ Iraq through the Eyes of British Intelligence, 1941–45
91 Wahbi was a close friend of Saib Shawkat, the prominent, rabidly antise- mitic, pro-Nazi physician who had studied and train ...
© The Author(s) 2019 93 A. O’Sullivan, The Baghdad Set, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15183-6_5 CHAPTER 5 South Gate The who ...
94 sabotage and political intrigue. Besides, SOE cover was far too impenetra- ble for any local malcontents or even Berlin to be ...
95 earlier that day. Underwood appears to have promptly contacted Bishop’s close friends and brother officers Aidan Philip, Robi ...
96 When Adrian Bishop, who had originally been transferred to Baghdad from his Section D liaison role with the Haganah in Palest ...
97 Berlin radio. Thus the convenient cover arrangement, devised by Cornwallis in cooperation with SOE, was not just functional i ...
98 care (and public funds) on the project. The result was impressive: visitors, who came from far and wide, delighted in its spl ...
99 reactionary military cadres, and restraining young, radical (albeit pro- British) politicians. Additionally, Bishop was respo ...
100 SOE’s staybehind and resistance plans. Six special-ops officers destined for deployment in Kurdistan came to South Gate to l ...
101 assurance that they would be safe from reprisals, then the effectiveness of SOE’s preparations would be significantly dimini ...
102 regional commander, with Aidan Philip as field commander for Iraq and John Underwood as field commander for Persia. Understa ...
103 proved extremely tricky: it took almost three months of tough negotia- tions and London’s intercession to accomplish. Howeve ...
104 and black propaganda in the Middle East. As can be seen from SOE operations in Iraq, the field command was heavily invested ...
105 commander, which eased the situation considerably. It was as clear a proof as one could wish for of the importance of social ...
106 which was a courageous, blistering attack by CICI on the corruption that plagued Nuri as-Said’s cabinet and government, that ...
107 ‘very unsavoury sort of person’; however, this was the result of having spent 17 years in the field experiencing intrigues, ...
108 hostilities approached, Leonard Richardson, an Intelligence Corps colo- nel, was sent out from London to inspect and invento ...
109 Richardson concluded that Thompson had been the most encouraging and carefully analytical of all the diplomats he had visite ...
110 Mary has related an amusing incident in which Bishop broke his arm by attempting to hand-crank his car without first putting ...
111 London Gazette, 14 October 1941, 5961. For more about the wartime IPC, see J.H. Bamberg, The History of the British Petrol ...
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