Historical Dictionary of British Intelligence

Jim Skardon and Henry Arnold, the MI5 officers who attended the brief trial in 1950 of Klaus Fuchs. Both had interrogated him an ...

Konon Molody, alias Gordon Lonsdale of the KGB, who was arrested in London in 1961 following a defector’s tip. George Blake, the ...

John Vassall, the Admiralty clerk caught in a classic KGB “homosexual honeytrap” in Moscow, who continued to spy after his retur ...

Stephen Ward, the MI5 agent whose attempt to entrap the Soviet assistant naval attaché caused the Profumo crisis, which ended th ...

Eugene Ivanov, the Soviet assistant naval attaché whose amorous pursuits on the London social scene made him a target for MI5. F ...

Sir Roger Hollis, MI5’s expert on Communism, who served as director- general for nine years but was suspected of having been a S ...

Sir Martin Furnival Jones, director-general of the Security Service from 1965 to 1972 and a keen amateur birdwatcher. Kim Philby ...

Monty Woodhouse, one of the key participants in the Iranian coup, codenamed Operation BOOT, to remove Prime Minister Mussadeq fr ...

Lionel “Buster” Crabb, a diver employed by SIS to conduct a clandestine survey of Soviet warship hulls. His mysterious disappear ...

Maurice Oldfield, SIS chief who was called back from retirement in 1979 to reorganize the security apparatus in northern Ireland ...

MAGAN, WILLIAM• 321 matter, do those of his immediate subordinates, Major J. A. S. Hamil- ton or Captain K. M. D. Mills. When Ga ...

322 • MAIN LINE 1948 he joinedMI5, rising to become the director of E Branch, re- sponsible for liaison with Britain’s colonies, ...

MALAYA EMERGENCY• 323 MAKARIOS, ARCHBISHOP.Strongly suspected of providing secret support to theEOKA(National Organization of Cy ...

324 • MALAYAN SECTION local director of military intelligence, Colonel Paul Gleadell. TheSe- cret Intelligence Service’s regiona ...

MALLY, THEODORE• 325 by an agent named Cole disappeared entirely, and Major Cauvin’s mission of Sergeants Meldrum and Regan ende ...

326 • MALLY, THEODORE chael Straight, and the leader of theOxford ring,amolecode- namedscott. Mally left England in June 1937 bu ...

MANN, WILFRID• 327 ceeding will enable us to build up a reserve of ready leads, which can be developed, as the need arises, into ...

328 • MANNINGHAM-BULLER, ELIZA a new job, as head of the Radioactivity Section of the National Bu- reau of Standards, where he r ...

MARKOV, GEORGI• 329 tural Committee to explain his new satirical play,The Man Who Was Me. Instead of attending the meeting, Mark ...

330 • MARLBOROUGH, DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH, DUKE OF.In 1701 the Duke of Marlborough ap- pointed an Irishman, William Cadogan, as his ...