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Military Mission on Crete, stressing that he would still be a D employee
‘on D’s books.’ See Atkin, Section D, Appendix 2, 15.
- Additionally, there was of course also a primary surface layer of personal
identity covering the diplomatic identities: Stark was a celebrated author,
while Bishop, Philip, and Zaehner were all army officers, and Domvile an
RAF officer.
- See Private papers of N. Collins, 9321, Documents Collection, Imperial
War Museum [IWM].
- War Establishment (PAIC/1046/I), Charts re. organization of CICI in
Iraq and Persia, folio 23a, n.d. (probably early 1944), KV 4/223, TNA. See
also abbreviations and appendices D and E.
- For Monck-Mason, see FO 371/27085, TNA; FO 371/40089/2476,
TNA.
- Jones was bludgeoned and stabbed to death by three Iraqis on 12
December 1938 while cycling alone near RAF Habbaniya. For the P/O
George W. Jones case file, see FO 371/23213/758, TNA.
- For the Harris/Griffiths murders, see FO 799/8, TNA; HS 7/266, TNA;
Adrian O’Sullivan, Espionage and Counterintelligence in Occupied Persia
(Iran): The Success of the Allied Secret Services (Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2015) [ECOP], 122–9, 129n10.
- See abbreviations. ISLD (Inter-Services Liaison Department) was the
cover name used by SIS in the Middle East and Far East.
- Roughly synonymous with the postwar (Cold War) occupational terms
‘casuals’ or ‘occasionals.’ For more about casual intelligence gathering, see
Harry Ferguson, Operation Kronstadt (London: Cornerstone, 2011),
19–20. Ferguson, a former SIS officer, once said: ‘People often refer to spies
in history, but they’re not actually spies; they’re scouts—people who would
go to another country and tell you what was there, without discovering any-
thing secret.’ Interview with Stephen Fry, Fry’s English Delight, BBC Radio
4 (25 August 2015).
- Baden-Powell, Adventures, 2.
- Today such information is often termed OSINT (open-source intelli-
gence). See Martin Thomas, Empires of Intelligence: Security Services and
Colonial Disorder after 1914 (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press,
2008), 2.
- Baden-Powell, Adventures, 12 (original italics).
- Especially the School of Oriental Studies, which was renamed the School
of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in 1938.
- Marylebone Cricket Club—so much more than just a cricket club.
- Alternatively, using an even deeper euphemism, Philby suggested that
Stark might have had [the government’s] general blessing and any help
they could give ... ‘without inconvenience to themselves.’ Philby to Stark,
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