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phers, and 12 was issued to conceal the whereabouts in Australia of
theKGBdefectorVladimir Petrovand his wife Evdokia.
The existence of D Notices, issued by the Defence, Press, and
Broadcasting Committee, was disclosed in February 1967 when the
D Notice Secretary, Colonel Sammy Lohan, mistakenly authorized
the veteranDaily Expressdefense correspondent, Chapman Pincher,
to publish a claim that the government routinely read copies of all
the country’s incoming and outgoing private and commercial cable
traffic. In fact the government had done so since 1920 under the au-
thority of theOfficial Secrets Act.DABBAGH, COLONEL AL-.Until 2003 the commander of one of
four Iraqi air defense units in the desert west of Baghdad, Colonel al-
Dabbagh supplied theSecret Intelligence Service(SIS) with infor-
mation relating to weapons of mass destruction (WMD) during 2002,
using contacts in the London-based Iraq National Accord, a group
of exiled opponent of Saddam Hussein’s regime, as intermediaries.
Colonel al-Dabbagh insisted that he had witnessed the delivery at
night of a ‘‘secret weapon’’—warheads containing toxic chemicals
for handheld rocket-propelled grenades to be used on the battlefield
by the Fedayeen and Special Republican Guard—and also provided
details on the four factories, at Habbaniyah, al-Nahrawan, Nabbai,
and al-Latifia, that had manufactured the warheads. His role as an
SIS source, over seven years, was confirmed by his brother-in-law,
retiredGeneral A. J. M. Muhie, who helped smuggle the informa-
tion out of Iraq. Al-Dabbagh remained in Baghdad after the Coalition
invasion and played a leading role in the Governing Council created
as a temporary administration.
DACRE, LORD.SeeTREVOR ROPER, HUGH.
DAIL, WALTER.A formerSpecial Branchdetective sacked after the
police strike of 1919, Walter Dail worked forWilliam Ewer,aDaily
Heraldjournalist and Soviet spy. He was arrested in April 1929 with
Albert Allier, but was never charged. A raid on his flat provided
proof that over the previous seven years he had routinely maintained
surveillance onMI5, theGovernment Code and Cipher School,
andSecret Intelligence Serviceoffices in London and had received