xviii•CHRONOLOGY
1959 Cyprus settlement is assisted by Operationsunshine.
1960 Oleg Penkovsky contacts Greville Wynne in Moscow.
1961 George Blake, Konon Molody, Morris and Lona Cohen, Harry
Houghton, and Ethel Gee are arrested. MI5 tries to entrap Eu-
gene Ivanov.
1962 John Vassall and Barbara Fell are arrested.
1963 Kim Philby defects.
1964 The Defence Intelligence Staff is established. John Cairncross
confesses. Anthony Blunt accepts immunity. The Security Com-
mission is created.
1965 Molody is swapped for Wynne. Alfred Roberts and Geoffrey
Conway are acquitted. Martin Furnival Jones is appointed the
DGSS.
1966 Frank Bossard is arrested. Blake escapes.
1968 Philby’sMy Silent Waris published. Douglas Britten is arrested.
1969 Czech intelligence agents Josef Frolik and Frantisek August de-
fect.
1970 Morris and Lona Cohen are swapped for Gerald Brooke.
1971 Will Owen is arrested. Oleg Lyalin defects. Operationfootex-
pels Sovietrezidenturas. Sirioj Abdoolcader, Kyriacos Costi,
Leonard Hinchcliffe, Constantinos Martianon, and Nicholas
Prager are arrested.
1972 Michael Hanley is appointed DGSS.
1973 David Bingham is arrested. A Mobile Reconnaissance Force
team is ambushed.
1974 The Prevention of Terrorism Act is passed.
1975 Civil Contingencies Committee is created.
1976 ‘‘The Eavesdroppers’’ is published inTime Out.
1977 Philip Agee is deported. John Berry and two others are arrested
in connection with theTime Outarticle.
1978 The Zircon satellite project is compromised. Georgi Markov is
assassinated.
1979 Blunt is exposed publicly. Howard Smith is appointed DGSS.
1980 The Home Secretary publishes telephone intercept statistics.
1981 John Jones is appointed DGSS. Colin Figures is appointed chief
of the SIS (‘‘C’’).
1982 The United Kingdom and Argentina fight the Falklands War.
Vladimir Kuzichkin defects.