Historical Dictionary of British Intelligence

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Molde, where he and the Norwegian gold reserves were rescued by

the Royal Navy, having provided the Norwegian defense forces with

a wireless link to England. Upon his return to London, Foley was

placed in charge of a newNorwegian Section, designated A1, with

Eric Welshseconded from theNaval Intelligence Divisionas his

deputy.

In May 1941 Foley was selected to lead the interrogation ofRu-

dolf Hessat Mytchett Place, Aldershot, assisted by Thomas Ken-

drick. Later he was sent to Lisbon to supervise thedouble agent

hamlet. He also liaised closely with theTwenty Committee, which

he attended occasionally, and with the London Controlling Section

over the management ofhamletand the other members of his net-

work in Portugal.

At the end of the war Foley returned to Germany underBritish

Control Commission for Germanycover as assistant inspector-

general of the Public Safety Branch responsible for screening mem-

bers of the new German administration. He retired in 1949 to his

home in Stourbridge, where he died in May 1958.

FOOT.Code name for the mass expulsion of 90KGBandGRUper-
sonnel from London in September 1972 precipitated by thedefection
ofOleg Lyalin. The 90 Soviets expelled were diplomats working
under commercial or other covers in London. A further 15 Soviets
who happened to be out of the country at the time were refused read-
mittance; among this group was Yuri Voronin, the KGBrezident,
forcing a very junior subordinate, a security officer at theSoviet
Trade Delegationin Highgate, to assume his duties temporarily.
The sudden, unexpected removal of more than a hundred intelligence
professionals handicapped the localrezidenturasfor more than a
decade.

FOOTE, ALLAN.Born in Kirkdale, Liverpool, in 1905, Allan Foote
was discharged from the Royal Air Force because of his failure to
declare his membership of theCommunist Party of Great Britain.
He subsequently chose to fight in Spain and in December 1936 joined
the British battalion of theInternational Brigade. Upon his return
to London in September 1938, he was recruited as a courier by an
experiencedGRUagent, Birgette Kuczynski, who was then living in