Historical Dictionary of British Intelligence

MARSHALL-CORNWALL, SIR JAMES• 331 Depot at Abbottabad near Rawalpindi. Marr-Johnson spoke fluent Japanese and his command of the ...

332 • MARTIN, ARTHUR took over Western Command. This posting ended in his dismissal, having incurred the wrath of the War Office ...

MARTIN, ARTHUR• 333 It was Martin thatSir Percy Sillitoeselected to accompany him to Washington in June 1951 when he tried to ex ...

334 • MARYLAND clared himself to be ‘‘99.9 percent certain of his guilt,’’ Martin wrote to theTimesto insist that there were sti ...

MASON, A. E. W.• 335 gan-Giles, which was later to operate from Naples as well. Pre- viously, Eastern Mediterranean naval operat ...

336 • MASON, A. E. W. Following his recruitment, Mason, who had been educated at Dul- wich College and Trinity College, Oxford, ...

MASTERMAN, SIR JOHN• 337 In January 1917 Mason was recalled to London, where he received a promotion to the rank of major but su ...

338 • MATA HARI and later at Wormwood Scrubs. There he reestablished contact with several of his former students, includingWilli ...

MATRIX CHURCHILL• 339 nage. At her trial, heldin camerabefore a military tribunal in July 1917, the prosecution alleged that a G ...

340 • MATRIX CHURCHILL had been monitoring Hussein’s illicit procurement program, using sources in both companies to supply info ...

MATRIX CHURCHILL• 341 This dramatic evidence had an electric effect in court, to the de- gree that the prosecuting counsel, Alan ...

342 • MAUD COMMITTEE MAUD COMMITTEE.In 1939 (Sir) George Thomson, Imperial Col- lege’s professor of physics since 1930, was enga ...

MAUD COMMITTEE• 343 AlthoughWinston Churchill’s scientific adviser, Professor Lin- demann, was yet to be convinced, the Thomson ...

344 • MAUD COMMITTEE solved until Bohr escaped to England in October 1943 and could ex- plain it for himself. In the meantime, t ...

MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET• 345 president of the council, who was himself a physical chemist whose PhD thesis at Leipzig University, c ...

346 • MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET Would he be willing to travel to one on behalf of theSecret Intelli- gence Service(SIS)? At that time ...

MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET• 347 nate an enemy agent but mistakenly kills the wrong person, an inci- dent that the Old Etonian Kelly la ...

348 • MAW, BERTIE the issue became academic. SIS asked Maugham to go to Romania instead, but he declined, pleading poor health. ...

MAYER, HANS• 349 nization ‘‘absolutely free from any political bias or influence,’’ and must limit his investigations of espiona ...

350 • MAYHEW, CHRISTOPHER MAYHEW, CHRISTOPHER.Born in June 1915 and educated at Haileybury and Christ Church, Oxford, Christophe ...