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the committee of course, as its black propaganda operations were top
secret.
- See Appendix E.
- Revised charter for the Combined Intelligence Centre Iraq, History of
Combined Intelligence Centre Iraq and Persia, June 1941–December
1944, Appendix D, AIR 29/2504, TNA.
- Blood to Seel, 14 December 1948, CO 967/130, TNA; Rance to Seel, 13
January 1949, CO 967/130, TNA.
- Perowne to Guest, 15 May 1942, Perowne 4/1, Stewart Henry Perowne
Collection, GB165-0228, MECA. The mention of the mechanization of
the cavalry is clearly a not-so-veiled reference to Chokra Wood’s regiment,
the Corps of Guides (Cavalry), which had recently been mechanized.
- Envisaging the covert space occupied by clandestine operations and opera-
tives as an essentially social environment, the term ‘spyscape’ resonates
with the Lefebvrean concept of social space. See Claire M. Hubbard-Hall
and Adrian O’Sullivan, ‘Landscapes of Intelligence in the Third Reich:
Visualizing Abwehr Operations and “Covert Space” during the Second
World War’ [forthcoming in 2019].
- CICI was also the godchild of SIME, in the sense that it essentially repli-
cated at a regional level SIME’s theatre-level clearing-house function. See
Roger Arditti, ‘Security Intelligence in the Middle East (SIME): Joint
Security Intelligence Operations in the Middle East, c. 1939–58’,
Intelligence and National Security 31, no. 3 (2016): 369–70.
- For a simplified overview of the organization of CICI, minus Persia (Iran),
see Appendix D. Details of the 1944 CICI war establishment for Iraq and
Persia are to be found in KV 4/223, TNA.
- For specific examples of administrative difficulties, see ECOP, 13–14.
- That is, nonmilitary.
- DSO Persia would be commanded for most of the war by E.L. ‘Joe’
Spencer (1902–1976), an SOE officer (D/H.70) and former AIOC
employee, who was personally recruited for the Tehran job by the head of
SIME, Raymond Maunsell, and who had a successful postwar career with
MI5. For Spencer, see my two books on Persia and my article: ‘Joe Spencer’s
Ratcatchers: British Security Intelligence in Occupied Persia’, Asian
Affairs: Journal of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs 48, no. 2: 296–312.
- Details of the four operational divisions of CICI are to be found in History
of Combined Intelligence Centre Iraq and Persia, June 1941–December
1944, AIR 29/2504, TNA.
- CICI Weekly Intelligence Summary and Précis of Information No. 19, 21
June 1941, AIR 29/2504, TNA.
- I(b) Monthly Summary: July 1941, CICI Iraq c/o Air HQ Iraq, 1 August
1941, AIR 29/2510, TNA.
ADRIAN O’SULLIVAN
