Historical Dictionary of British Intelligence

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In December 1944 Gallegos was moved to a PoW camp near Mu-

nich, where he attempted to escape but was caught while seeking new

papers from the local Italian consulate. After his arrest he made a

second escape, from the train taking him to a concentration camp,

but he was again intercepted close to the Swiss frontier. Imprisoned

at the Reichenau Straflager, Gallegos persuaded his captors that he

was a civilian worker who had lost his papers and, after five weeks,

he was released to find a job in Innsbruck. Instead he took a train to

Milan and, in September 1944, walked into the mountains to find the

partisans. Having contacted a band of guerrillas, the British liaison

officer, Gordon Lett, signaled Gallegos’s arrival, and his identity was

confirmed even though he had been reported lost, believed dead,

more than a year earlier. Accompanied by a group of partisans and

Allied ex-PoWs, he then made his way to Rome, where he reported

to the local SOE commander,Gerald Holdsworth. He was flown

back to London, where he was interviewed by General Pug Ismay

and posted back to Italy, to the Special Forces headquarters in Flor-

ence.

After the war Gallegos switched to theSecret Intelligence Ser-

viceand operated under diplomatic cover in Madrid during the mid-

1950s.

GAMBIER-PARRY, SIR RICHARD.Originally a BBC public rela-
tions officer, Richard Gambier-Parry moved to the Pye electronics
firm in 1931 and then in 1938 joined theSecret Intelligence Service
to modernize its overseas wireless organization. An Old Etonian who
had served in the Royal Flying Corps during World War I, Gambier-
Parry established his headquarters at Whaddon Manor and built large
dedicated stations forSection VIIIatHanslope Park, Nash, and
Forfar. At the end of World War II, Gambier-Parry supervised the
transfer of Section VIII’s assets to the newly createdDiplomatic
Wireless Service.

GAME BOOK.An annual report of successful espionage investiga-
tions and prosecutions compiled byMI5whileSir Vernon Kellwas
director-general. Now declassified, it may be inspected at the Na-
tional Archives at Kew.