Report of visit by Mr. A.J. Kellar to the Middle East, February 1945, KV
4/384, TNA. For more about Kellar, who ran the Middle East desk at
MI5 B Branch for most of the war, see ECOP, 6 passim; NSW, 223–4.
Note on future security problems in Mid-East, November 1943, KV
4/384, TNA. Kellar was probably alluding to the OSS plan to encourage
Arab goodwill towards the United States—Expedition 90—conceived in
late 1942 by Bill Donovan and Harold Hoskins, to which the British took
strong exception, and which was ultimately shelved owing to British pres-
sure. See Smith, OSS, 124–5.
Wavell to Churchill, 24 October 1944, L/P&S/8/520, India Office
Records, British Library (St Pancras, London) [BL]. For a view of how the
new balance of power turned out, see Richard J. Aldrich, ‘British
Intelligence and the Anglo-American “Special Relationship” during the
Cold War,’ Review of International Studies 24 (1998): 331–51.
SIME’s principles, especially with regard to the US Counter Intelligence
Corps (CIC), are detailed in Report on visit by Mr. A.J. Kellar to SIME
and CICI organizations, May 1944, KV 4/384, TNA.
Penrose to Loud, 9 February 1944, Record Group 226, Entry 215, Box 3,
NARA.
Crawford to Loud and Penrose, 5 December 1943, Record Group 226,
Entry 215, Box 3, NARA.
Penrose to Loud, 9 February 1944, Record Group 226, Entry 215, Box 3,
NARA.
Penrose to Allen, 12 February 1944, Record Group 226, Entry 217, Box
1, NARA.
Allen to Dayton, 25 February 1944, Record Group 226, Entry 217, Box
1, NARA. Original italics.
The Central New Jersey Home News, 8 April 1945; Pasadena Independent,
3 June 1959.
Toulmin to COG USAFIME, 11 November 1944, Folder 8, Box 5, Series
8 (OSS), PP; Notification of personnel action, Central Intelligence Group
(CIG), 25 April 1947, Folder 2, Box 5, Series 8 (OSS), PP; Gregory
Aftandilian, letter to the author, 24 August 2018; ‘Allen to Speak’, Walla
Walla Union-Bulletin, 17 October 1947.
Penrose to Loud, 1 June 1944, Record Group 226, Entry 215, Box 3,
NARA; History of the Near East Section, OSS, Cairo, 22–25, Document
No. 11384/004, Record Group 226, Entry 210, Box 261, NARA;
McBaine to Toulmin, Report on Trip through the Middle East, 3–18 May
1944, 20 May 1944, Document No. 11397/019, Record Group 226,
Entry 210, Box 261, NARA. See also ECOP, 113, 225–6; Wilford, Great
Game, 39, 43, 46–7; Roosevelt, For Lust of Knowing, 124.
