179
1944), 606. Details given were compiled from reports dated November
1940 and June 1941.
- Glubb to Stark, 10 October 1944, Container 13.10 (Sir John Bagot
Glubb), Series II Correspondence, 1893–1985, Harry Ransom Center,
The University of Texas, Austin TX [HRC].
- Ibid.
- Royle, Glubb Pasha, 238.
- Part II—Causes of the Revolt, A Report on the Role Played by the Arab
Legion in Connection with the Recent Operations in Iraq, Sir John Glubb
Collection, GB165-0118, MECA; Royle, Glubb Pasha, 261–4.
- Sir Stewart Menzies, wartime head of MI6.
- 54 Broadway, St James’s Park, was SIS headquarters between 1926 and
- Nigel Clive, A Greek Experience, 1943–1948 (Wilton: Michael Russell,
1985).
- Born in London in 1887 to a German father and Canadian mother,
C.K.O.B. Giffey was educated in Hamburg and at Merton College,
Oxford. He was commissioned in the Worcestershires as a regular officer in
1911 and served for 17 years in Egypt, Flanders (where he was severely
wounded), Mesopotamia, Persia, Russia, and Germany. He joined SIS in
1928, serving as head of station in Tallinn (Estonia) until the Soviet inva-
sion in 1940. See Tina Tamman, Portrait of a Secret Agent Who Knew Kim
Philby (York: Thousand Eyes, 2014), chapters 1–7.
- Leslie (1903–1985) and Norma Pott. See Tamman, Portrait, chapter 8.
Also ‘From Womb to Tomb’, Cecil Gervase Hope-Gill Collection, GB165-
0151, MECA.
- Harry Nathaniel Steptoe (1892–1949) was recruited in 1923 at the age of
31 and was posted to Shanghai before joining the anti-communist Section
IX on its formation in March 1944. Stephen Dorril, MI6: Inside the Covert
World of Her Majesty’s Secret Intelligence Service (New York: Touchstone,
2002), 11; see also Jeffery, Secret History, 257–65 passim.
- Tamman, Portrait, chapter 8.
- Kim Philby, My Silent War (New York: Ballantine, 1968), 111, 115.
- See Nigel West and Oleg Tsarev, eds., TRIPLEX: Secrets from the Cambridge
Spies (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009), 145–57.
- Minutes and notes on the meeting of SIME representatives held at Beirut,
12–13 February 1943, KV 4/240, TNA.
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