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sor at Marburg and Columbia. Tilley himself was an expert on German pho-
netics and taught languages in the United States and at Robert College,
Istanbul. Raymond Maunsell, head of SIME, has described him as ‘by far the
best interrogator we had at SIME.’ In about 30 minutes Tilley succeeded in
breaking down SIME’s most difficult suspect where all others had failed. For
the full story, see Private papers of Raymond Maunsell, 4829, IWM.
- History of Combined Intelligence Centre Iraq and Persia, June 1941–
December 1944, AIR 29/2504, TNA.
- Hubbard-Hall and O’Sullivan, ‘Landscapes of Intelligence,’ [forthcoming
in 2019].
- Apart from money in various currencies and personal items, all that was
found in the parachutists’ possession were lists of code words and of
Kurdish tribal leaders, some charts, and various W/T instructions. The
Germans were also carrying some Kurdish (Khoybun) national emblems
(stickpins) for distribution; however, the colours had been manufactured
in Germany upside down. CinC to MA Ankara, 2 July 1943, WO
208/5088, TNA. The documents in question are to be found in Record
Group 226, Entry 215, Box B7, NARA.
- Security Intelligence Summary No. 64, Defence Security Office, CICI
Iraq, 1 July 1944, AIR 29/2512, TNA.
- Security Intelligence Summary No. 70, Defence Security Office, CICI
Iraq, 3 January 1945, AIR 29/2512, TNA.
- Bakr Sidqi was a Kurdish army officer (Chief of the Iraqi General Staff), a
military reformer with fascist tendencies, who overthrew the Iraqi govern-
ment in 1936 and, without manifestly threatening the monarchy or the
parliamentary democracy, ruled Iraq dictatorially with ever-decreasing
popularity for less than a year. He was assassinated at an air-force base near
Mosul on 11 August 1937.
- CI intermediate interrogation report (CI-IIR) No. 28, 18 October 1945,
Record Group 263, Entry ZZ18, Box 35, NARA.
- In human terms, the immense size of the Abadan refinery is best gauged
from the 1942 AIOC census, which recorded the total population as
110,000, of whom 28,000 were AIOC employees (an increase of 3000
over 1940). See Khorramshahr Consulate Diary, 19 February 1943,
Political and Secret Department Records, India Office Records, IOR/L/
PS/12/3528A/Pol Ext Coll 28 File 115 Pt 1, Asia, Pacific and Africa
Collections, British Library (St Pancras, London) [BL]; Appendix II,
Military Report on the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company’s (South Iranian)
Oilfield Area 1940, General Staff India, Military Department Records,
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/24, BL.
- There is a Bedaux literature; however, it is mostly about the Bedaux manu-
facturing system and his corporate activities. See inter alia: Jim Christy, The
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