BRIXMIS• 71After Mosley’s arrest in 1940, it was discovered that certain of his
bank accounts had been conducted in such a way as to camouflage
the way the BUF received funds. Mosley clearly wished to make it
difficult for the finances of the BUF to be investigated but evidently
most of the funds had come from ‘‘unknown sources’’ and only a
small portion came from members’ dues.BRITTEN, DOUGLAS.ARoyal Air Force(RAF) chief technician,
Douglas Britten sold huge quantities of classified communications
data to theKGB. According to his confession, Britten was recruited
casually, while browsing in South Kensington’s Science Museum, by
a friendly Soviet diplomat based in London who addressed him by
his amateur wireless call sign. When Britten was posted to Cyprus
later in the year, he maintained contact with the KGB and was alleg-
edly blackmailed into supplying further material. When Britten was
transferred in 1966 to an RAF signals base in Lincolnshire, he was
handled by Aleksandr Bondarenko. He was finally identified as a spy
byMI5when he attempted to deliver documents to the Soviet em-
bassy, having missed a rendezvous. Britten was sentenced to 21
years’ imprisonment in November 1968.
BRIXMIS.The abbreviation for ‘‘British Commander-in-Chief’s Mili-
tary Mission to the Soviet Forces.’’ Brixmis consisted of three-man
teams of soldiers who patrolled the Soviet zone of Germany under
the terms of the Quadripartite Agreement, which allowed the four
armies of occupation to reconnoiter each others’ sectors, until it was
dissolved in December 1990. The teams, based at a headquarters lo-
cated at the Olympic Stadium compound, were drawn from 30 men
who served in the unit on secondment, supported by about 200 other
personnel, among them technicians, photographic processors, and
weapons analysts. The Brixmis teams underwent training at theTem-
pler Barracks, Ashford, and were required to be proficient in the
recognition of nearly a thousand Warsaw Pact weapons, ranging from
the latest model of the AK-37 assault rifle to the Soviet-made T-82
tank. Deployed in vehicles equipped with cameras but not radios,
they were allowed to visit anywhere in the Soviet zone apart from
preagreed permanent exclusion areas.