EAST AFRICA MISSION• 165failed the penalty would have been very severe. As it is, I am listed
as a traitor.’’ The fact that he is thus regarded by the KGB is hardly
surprising, considering the detail displayed in his account of Soviet
penetration of the United Nations and its institutions.–E–E DIVISION.The World War IIMI5division responsible for liaison
withdefence security officersposted overseas, sometimes known
internally as ‘‘Overseas Control’’ or ‘‘Alien Control.’’ Within the
division, E1(a) was responsible for dealing with French, Belgian,
Norwegian, Danish and Dutch, and American visitors to Britain and
E1(b) for monitoring the activities of seamen in Britain. E2, headed
byStephen Alley, was subdivided in E2(a), which monitored visitors
from Finland, Poland, and the Baltic states and 2(b), which dealt with
Hungary and the Balkans. E3, headed by Kemball Johnson, was re-
sponsible for monitoring Swiss and Swedish visitors; E4, headed by
Colonel Ryder, for dealing with Aliens War Service permits; E5,
headed by J. G. Denniston, for German and Austrian camp adminis-
tration and intelligence; and E6, under A. W. Roskill, for monitoring
Italians in Britain.
EAST AFRICA MISSION.In February 1941Special Operations
Executiveestablished an East Africa Mission in Cape Town, headed
by Lieutenant F. Wedlake, who was succeeded in August 1941 by
Colonel John Todd. The mission, working under ‘‘East African Trade
Mission’’ and then ‘‘Imperial Movements Control (Intelligence Sec-
tion)’’ cover in Durban, was aimed against Portuguese East Africa,
with a subsection dedicated to the Vichy French islands of Mauritius
and Re ́union. Representatives were dispatched to Beira, Lourenc ̧o
Marques, Mauritius, Dar-es-Salaam, Cape Town, and Nairobi. In
February 1943 the headquarters returned to Cape Town and was re-
named the South Africa Mission. As the North African campaign
progressed, the role of the U.S.Office of Strategic Servicesin the
region was reduced to intelligence collection for theSecret Intelli-
gence Service, and the mission was finally disbanded in June 1944.