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Intelligence Service in Red Russia, dedicated to ‘‘the chief,’’ Mans-
field Smith-Cumming, was published in March 1938 and was the first
authoritative account of the activities of the musician who had be-
come embroiled in espionage almost by accident. In 1940 he wrote
An Epic of the Gestapo, his further adventures against another totali-
tarian regime, and after the war wroteCome Hammer Come Sickle,
advocating greater understanding of the Soviet regime. Dukes died
in August 1967.DUNDERDALE, WILFRED (‘‘BIFFY’’).Born in Odessa in 1899,
Biffy Dunderdale inherited a large fortune from his family’s exten-
sive shipping business in Russia before the Revolution. Despite his
thick accent, Dunderdale served in the Royal Navy’s Mediterranean
Fleet during World War I and then joined theSecret Intelligence
Service(SIS) in 1921. He adopted the role of the quintessential En-
glishman abroad, driving his Rolls-Royce around France and com-
muting between the elegant office of SIS in the rue Charles Floquet
and his country home, the Chaˆteau de Cheˆne in the Loire Valley.
During World War II the stylish Dunderdale supervised SIS’s liaison
with the Free French and Polish Deuxie`me Bureaux, and later ran
SIS’s signals intelligence operations, in cooperation with the Poles,
against Soviet targets as controller,Special Liaison. After his retire-
ment from SIS in 1959, he was appointed British consul-general in
Chicago, and he died in New York in November 1990.
DWYER, PETER.The son of a symphony conductor, Peter Dwyer
read modern languages at Oxford and edited the student magazine
Cherwellbefore joining Fox Films. At the outbreak of World War II,
he was working for Movietone News when he was invited to join the
Secret Intelligence Serviceand was sent to France. In 1940 he was
transferred to open a new station in Panama City, where he met his
wife, the daughter of a local British bank manager. In September
1945, just as thesecurity liaison officerin Ottawa had left for En-
gland, Dwyer went up to Canada to sit in on the interrogation of the
GRUdefectorIgor Gouzenko.
Shortly before the end of the war Dwyer was appointed head of
station in Washington, D.C., a post he relinquished toKim Philbyin
October 1949 so he could accept the job of head of the Reports Sec-