Historical Dictionary of British Intelligence

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ious days. The Gestapo were evidently keen to score an easy success by

shooting down one of our aircraft, for they were always asking for a sortie.

We, of course, had to think of all the possible reasons for not sending one.

The Americans made a determined effort to reach Sofia to free a

group of 325 U.S. Army Air Force PoWs. A two-manOffice of Stra-

tegic Services(OSS) team landed in Greece in August 1944 and

trekked across the Greek frontier into Bulgaria, but when they arrived

in the capital on 17 September they were met by four other OSS of-

ficers who had driven overland from Istanbul. However, both mis-

sions, as well as a newly arrived SIS contingent, had been beaten

there by the Red Army, which had entered Bulgaria in early Septem-

ber. The British and Americans were ordered to leave the country on

24 September and when they refused, the Soviets threatened to im-

prison them; all promptly left without further encouragement. Scott

had been moved by the Germans to a prison in September and then

released in anticipation of the Red Army’s arrival. He was subse-

quently taken to Turkey by the Russians and then flown to Cairo by

the Americans.

BULL, GERALD.A Canadian scientist who developed the concept of
firing projectiles over exceptionally long distances using ingeniously
extended gun barrels. Bull’s controversial research led him to work
for Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi regime, which planned to build a ‘‘super-
gun’’ with which to bombard Israel. Bull was the subject of an inves-
tigation by theSecret Intelligence Servicebecause some of his
weapon’s components were built in England. However, he was shot
dead at his apartment in Brussels in March 1990 by an unknown as-
sassin widely presumed to have been contracted by Mossad.

BURGESS, GUY.AmemberoftheCambridge Five, along with
Donald Maclean,John Cairncross,Kim Philby,andAnthony
Blunt, Burgess was educated at Eton and Dartmouth Royal Naval
College. After graduating he joined the BBC as a radio producer in
the Talks Department, which gave him entre ́e into the world of poli-
tics and journalism. By the time he was recruited into theSecret In-
telligence Service’sSection Das an expert on wireless broadcasting
with an assignment to transmit anti-Nazi propaganda from Radio
Luxembourg, he was also a fully fledged Soviet agent and was sup-