Historical Dictionary of British Intelligence

NORWEGIAN SECTION• 391 (SOE), theShetland Bus, and the hugely successful network of 147 radio transmitters run by theSecret Inte ...

392 • NORWOOD, MELITA while they embarked on barges in anticipation of an invasion of En- gland. Surprisingly, this ambitious co ...

OAKLEY-HILL, DAYRELL• 393 great interest and represents a valuable contribution to the develop- ment of the work in this field.’ ...

394 • OATLEY, MICHAEL bania since 1929. In 1940 he joinedSpecial Operations Executive and served asDH/61 in the Romania, Greece, ...

O’BRIEN-FFRENCH, CONRAD• 395 OATSHEAF. MI5code name in 1967 for derogatory information about Prime MinisterHarold Wilsonoffered ...

396 • O’BRYAN TEAR, HUBERT Sweden. O’Brien-Ffrench arrived at his new job in January 1919 and was introduced toAugustus Agarand ...

OFFICE OF STRATEGIC SERVICES• 397 Special Operations Executive’s RF Section during World War II and later joined theSecret Intel ...

398 • OFFICIAL HISTORIANS Casey, later President Ronald Reagan’s director of central intelli- gence. OFFICIAL HISTORIANS.Most of ...

OLDFIELD, SIR MAURICE• 399 Treasury counsel, Sir Harry Poland, acknowledged Marvin’s phe- nomenal memory and withdrew the prosec ...

400 • OLDFIELD, SIR MAURICE Singapore in 1950 as deputy to James Fulton, a future controller, Far East. In 1953 Oldfield was bac ...

OLDHAM, ERNEST• 401 ity and intelligence agencies seemed more adept at combating each other than the ProvisionalIrish Republican ...

402 • ONE-TIME PADS According to a report written by his Soviet contact, Dmitri Bystroly- otov, he was given responsibility for ...

ORLOV, ALEXANDER• 403 ering a period from 1940 to 1948, which were studied from 1944 to 1979. The precise reason why the Soviets ...

404 • OSHCHENKO, VIKTOR wroteSecret Assignment, an account of his relationship with the de- fector, and then, as Orlov’s literar ...

OXFORD RING• 405 tives overseas known asdefence security officersand originally based at Aden, Cairo, Malta,Gibraltar, Hong Kong ...

406 • PALESTINE molehunts, are Christopher Hill,Iris Murdoch,Jenifer Hart, Ian Milner,Tom Driberg,Bernard Floud, Phillip Toynbee ...

PAN CRESCENT• 407 days and 240 witnesses, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Magrahi was sentenced to life imprisonment. In January 2004, ...

408 • PANDORA When thePan Crescent, commanded by Dov Bertchick, finally reached Constantia in October 1947, diplomatic represent ...

PANTCHEFF, THEODORE X. F.• 409 hands until a week after the official German surrender, and soon af- terward Pantcheff arrived to ...

410 • PAPERCLIP lishedAlderney: Fortress Island, a short account of the German oc- cupation of Alderney, the Channel Island wher ...