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military strength and composition’’ of the local resistance move-
ments.Moreover, although we had one or two agents in Athens who were in touch
by runner with some of theandartebands in the field and by wireless with
the Middle East, SOE Cairo had obviously been told little about the politi-
cal aspects of the Greek resistance movements. The Greek government in
London... probably knew little more than SOE and the Middle East Com-
mand.Following the success ofharling, the Germans took 300 Greek
army reserve officers hostage and shot 50 of them as a reprisal.HARRIS, KITTY.AnNKVDspy codenamedada, Kitty Harris was
the common-law wife of Earl Browder, the general-secretary of the
Communist Party of the United States of America who accompanied
him on a mission to China in 1927. Born in London, she had emi-
grated with her family to Canada and then settled in Chicago. In 1935
she underwent training in Moscow as a wireless operator and was
posted to London to assist therezident, Grigori Grafpen and to super-
viseDonald Macleanand photograph documents he removed from
the Foreign Office. When Maclean was transferred to the British em-
bassy in Paris in October 1938, Harris followed him and remained
there after the German occupation. When Maclean was withdrawn to
London, she traveled back to Moscow via Berlin, posing as the wife
of a Soviet diplomat. Later Harris undertook espionage missions in
Mexico and the United States. She died in the Soviet Union in Octo-
ber 1968. Her biography, based on herKGBfile, was written by Igor
Damaskin 2001.
HARRIS, TOMA ́S.The son of Lionel Harris, a well-known Spanish
art dealer of Jewish origin, Tommy Harris ranMI5’s Spanish Sec-
tion, designated B1(g) during World War II, and supervised MI5’s
stardouble agent,garbo. Educated in Spain, Harris won a scholar-
ship to the Slade School of Art at the age of 15. As well as being a
gifted artist, as was his wife Hilda, he was a leading expert on Goya,
El Greco, and Vela ́zquez and ran a gallery from his sumptuous home
in Chesterfield Gardens, Mayfair. Harris joined MI5, where two of
his sisters worked, fromSpecial Operations Executivein 1940. He