Historical Dictionary of British Intelligence

SPECIAL TRAINING SCHOOLS• 511 end of 1940 whenultracame on stream and Section VIII supplied the radio and teletype channels to t ...

512 • SPECIAL WIRELESS GROUPS toria Cross at Oran but died in an air crash in Devon on the way home. Those with an aptitude for ...

SPEDDING, SIR DAVID• 513 MECAS at Shemlan to learn Arabic for two years before joining the SIS station in Beirut in May 1970. Ho ...

514 • SPEDDING, SIR DAVID charge of SIS’s 60 overseas stations. He also named him his assistant chief, to take over from him as ...

SPIRO, EDWARD• 515 Spedding retired from SIS at the end of August 1999, just two weeks before the publication ofThe Mitrokhin Ar ...

516 • SPRINGBOK died in February 1979, explained how their friendship, which was to last 33 years, began. SPRINGBOK.TheSecret In ...

SPRINGHALL, DOUGLAS• 517 Africa, SIS quickly agreed to terms and enrolled von Kotze as springbok, but the plan to let him go to ...

518 • SPYCATCHER return to London, he was appointed the CPGB’s national organizer. Identified as the espionage contact of Olive ...

STAKE KNIFE• 519 their duties. The objective was to provide a secure safety valve for officers such as Cathy Masiter who had no ...

520 • STAY-BEHIND NETWORKS gram,’’ collaborated with journalist Greg Harken to produceStakek- nife: Britain’s Secret Agents in I ...

STEPHENSON, SIR WILLIAM• 521 World War II and was then transferred toBad Nenndorf. Allegations of the maltreatment of prisoners ...

522 • STERN GANG In April 1940 Stephenson was introduced to the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI), J. Edgar H ...

STEWART, BOB• 523 STEVENS, RICHARD.The son of a former British minister in Ath- ens, Major Richard Stevens was fluent in German, ...

524 • STEWART, BOB appointed the British representative on theComintern’s Executive Committee, and he visited Moscow often, atte ...

STEWART, SIR FINDLATER• 525 corded sound from another CPGB building in Great Newport Street, but both sources were to be betraye ...

526 • STIRLING, WALTER ing in Horseferry Road. He retired in 1946, the proposal for amal- gamation dying under opposition from M ...

STRAGGLE• 527 1953, Stirling gives a heavily sanitized account of his arrival by air in Athens on his first secret mission. STRA ...

528 • STRAIGHT, MICHAEL France respond to a surprise Israeli attack on Egypt by demanding a withdrawal and a cease-fire. The Ang ...

STRAIGHT, MICHAEL• 529 In 1937 Straight was instructed by his Soviet controller to return to the United States and obtain a job ...

530 • STRIKE OX In the postwar era, Straight had run his family’s journal, theNew Republic, until 1955 and latterly published se ...