Historical Dictionary of British Intelligence

WELSH, ERIC• 571 captured by the Turks. The solution was to make theAenne Rickmers a Royal Fleet Auxiliary and give Weldon a com ...

572 • WHADDON HALL considered good candidates. At the end of the war Welsh searched Germany for evidence of Nazi atomic research ...

WHEATLEY, DENNIS• 573 June 1941 he was posted to Tangier and in February 1942 partici- pated in Operationfalaiseto destroy an en ...

574 • WHEATLEY, JOAN Knight’s instructions with the intention of cultivating the press atta- che ́. The contact led to a single ...

WHINNEY, PATRICK• 575 ior personnel around London in her own car, but later she was put in charge of the allocation of petrol co ...

576 • WHITE, SIR DICK WHITE, SIR DICK. Director-general of the Security Servicefrom 1953 to 1956 and chief of theSecret Intellig ...

WHITE, SIR DICK• 577 eral, but he was completely out of his depth. MI5 was run by the triumvirate of Sillitoe’s deputy Liddell, ...

578 • WHITE LADY to catch the first flight, he discovered his passport had expired. De- spite frantic efforts to revalidate it, ...

WILLIAMS, SINCLAIR• 579 WIGG, GEORGE.A soldier from 1919 to 1937 and elected to the House of Commons in 1940, George Wigg was ap ...

580 • WILLIAMS, VALENTINE intercepted in Operationgold, theBerlin tunnel. While SIS ran a translation center in Regent’s Park st ...

WILSON, HAROLD• 581 Kim Philbyrecalls a visit to the secret propaganda center atWoburn Abbeyaccompanied by Williams, who lunched ...

582 • WINTERBOTHAM, FRED ing the sudden death of its leader. At the timeAnatoli Golitsynmade the claim, the only person who fit ...

WINTERBOTHAM, FRED• 583 and head its new Air Section, which was intended to liaise closely with several of his old colleagues in ...

584 • WISEMAN, SIR WILLIAM of Bletchley’s work, to preempt Cave Brown, was greeted with dis- may in Whitehall, but the decision ...

WODEHOUSE, P. G.• 585 WOBURN ABBEY.The ancestral home of the Duke of Bedford, Wo- burn Abbey accommodated the Political Warfare ...

586 • WODEHOUSE, P. G. they were, narrated in typical Wodehousian style, but this very act of collaboration, rather that the con ...

WOODHOUSE, MONTY• 587 Hogg, MP, that Wodehouse would not face charges, and George Or- well published an essay, ‘‘In Defence of P ...

588 • WOOLWICH ARSENAL of Lord Terrington, he was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, where he was awarded a double ...

WRIGHT, PETER• 589 Britain’s national organizer and previously an engineer employed as an examiner at the arsenal’s Naval Depart ...

590 • X GROUP mented them inTheir Trade Is Treachery, and then to television pro- ducer Paul Greengrass inSpyCatcher. Both books ...