Historical Dictionary of British Intelligence

SINCLAIR, SIR HUGH• 491 one of the other employees. He wrote a single letter to a German cover address in Lisbon and, apart from ...

492 • SINCLAIR, SIR HUGH Sinclair was unexpectedly engulfed in a major crisis over theZi- noviev Letter. His complicity in the a ...

SINCLAIR, SIR JOHN• 493 mament was politically unacceptable to the British electorate in May However, Sinclair and his team per ...

494 • SINCLAIR, SIR JOHN landings in the Dardanelles, helping to land the Lancashire Fusiliers on the west beach, his health col ...

SINCLAIR, SIR JOHN• 495 he had been confronted by the vice chief and the assistant chief, Air CommodoreJames Easton, and again h ...

496 • SINCLAIR, SIR JOHN sions and his recommendation for disciplinary action, he was asked by the committee ‘‘to look further i ...

SKRIPKIN, IVAN• 497 Alluding to Sinclair’s continued silence over the circumstances of his departure and his refusal to record w ...

498 • SLOCOMBE, GEORGE nique involving two English-speakingcounterintelligenceofficers in theNKVDwho called at his home and pret ...

SMILEY, DAVID• 499 in Abyssinia. In January 1943 he was recruited intoSpecial Opera- tions Executive(SOE) and briefed byBasil Da ...

500 • SMITH, SIR HOWARD of an attachment to the British Military Mission. It soon became clear to Smiley that the operation had ...

SNOW• 501 SMITHERS, SIR PETER.Educated at Harrow and Magdalen Col- lege, Oxford, where he gained a first in history, Peter Smith ...

502 • SOLDATENSENDER CALAIS changed messages with Hamburg from his cell in Wandsworth Prison using a hand cipher that proved ext ...

SPANISH EMBASSY• 503 War II,Soldatensender Calaiswas actually broadcasting black pro- paganda from England, transmitting popular ...

504 • SPECIAL AIR SERVICE ported to it. In addition,duck, a secretary for one of the senior dip- lomats, gained access to crypto ...

SPECIAL BRANCH• 505 The deployment of the SAS inNorthern Irelandin 1970 gave the regiment unrivaled experience in counterrevolut ...

506 • SPECIAL COMMUNICATIONS UNITS ing supervises the various agencies represented at the United King- dom’s 70 commercially sig ...

SPECIAL INTELLIGENCE SERVICE• 507 telligence Service (SIS), linked to Whaddon Hall in Buckinghamshire by radio. Originally named ...

508 • SPECIAL LIAISON and diplomatic covers. Numerous American-owned international firms were approached to supply business cove ...

SPECIAL MEANS• 509 Kizel, Tannu Ola, and Tashkent, and were analyzed by an office on the first floor of the Alliance Building in ...

510 • SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE (SOE).Special Operations Executive began its short life headed b ...