Historical Dictionary of British Intelligence

TUDOR HART, EDITH• 551 was headed by David Boyle of SIS, butAnthony Bluntconducted a review of its activities in 1941. TUBE ALLO ...

552 • TUDOR HART, EDITH to Brixton in South London and then to the Rhondda Valley in Wales. Upon their return from South Wales, ...

U-2• 553 TURING, ALAN.A mathematical genius, Alan Turing graduated from King’s College, Cambridge, in 1936 and two years later p ...

554 • ULJANOV, VLADIMIR April 1956 with the consent of the prime minister,Anthony Eden, under the cover of a U.S. Air force unit ...

UREN, ORMOND• 555 counterintelligenceorganization might look like. MI5 supplied a broad description of its own structure and str ...

556 • USTINOV, IONA VON According to his confession, Uren had been introduced to Spring- hall in April 1943, and he had a furthe ...

VASSALL, JOHN• 557 Czechs would be no match for the Nazi armored divisions he had seen. Vansittart also encouragedWolfgang zu Pu ...

558 • VAUXHALL CROSS VAUXHALL CROSS. Sir David Speddingwas theSecret Intelli- gence Service’s chief in 1994 when the headquarter ...

VENONA• 559 German professor in Norway, who claimed that Heisenberg was en- gaged on developing a U-235 bomb and ‘‘a power machi ...

560 • VERNON, WILFRED of the other material. Altogether 2,900 messages were decrypted, some of which proved to beNKVD,GRU, and N ...

VOIGHT, FREDERICK• 561 under diplomatic cover, with the status of first secretary, but his prin- cipal task was to help a team l ...

562 • VOLUNTARY INTERCEPTORS Manchester Guardianand had enjoyed a long association with Claude Dansey’sZ Organisation. He was pl ...

WALKER, DAVID• 563 paid to ‘‘Bridgeman Taylor,’’ and Von der Goltz was challenged with this new evidence. Under cross-examinatio ...

564 • WALKER, SIR PATRICK included John Ennals, another veteran ofSection D, and was evacu- ated to Rome until arrangements coul ...

WATCHER SERVICE• 565 intelligence abroad.’’ Among his achievements was his persuasion of the bankers of Genoa to delay their fin ...

566 • WATSON, ALISTER commissioned officers and members of the MI5 families to provide the personnel whose skill is considered e ...

WAUGH, ALEC• 567 that bore a resemblance to a classified Army Council document and then was returned to civilian life in October ...

568 • WEEDING was called up for military service in France with his regiment, the Dorsets. A year later he was transferred to in ...

WEISS, ERNEST• 569 been identified, but it is believed that he went to the United States for a brief visit in December 1932, ret ...

570 • WELCHMAN, GORDON French biologist and prominent Communist; and Jacques Soustelle, another academic who was to rise high in ...