HUNGARY• 253Male. He was elected a Conservative borough councilor and he died
in October 1988.HUME, COLONEL.In July 1900 the director of military intelligence
(South Africa), Colonel Hume, wrote a paper recommending the ap-
pointment of intelligence officers to all levels of military commands,
noting, ‘‘This is recognized in India where an Intelligence Officer is
allowed for each mixed brigade.’’ He pointed out the need to develop
militarycounterintelligenceto combat the Boers who, though de-
feated in the field, had resorted to commando raids. Hume’s demand
to coordinate ‘‘detective work’’ with ‘‘press censorship and the read-
ing of private mail’’ and the recruitment of scouts and interpreters set
a standard for the centralized collection and analysis of intelligence.
HUNGARY. Section D’s man in Budapest,Basil Davidson, had been
forced to decamp to Belgrade following the German invasion in
April 1941. There had been no time to recruit astay-behind net-
work—and anyway the British minister, Sir Ronald Campbell, so
thoroughly disapproved of covert operations that he had ordered his
military attache ́to throw Section D’s cache of sabotage mate ́riel,
stored in the legation’s basement, into the Danube, threatening to de-
nounce Davidson to the Hungarian authorities if he created a diplo-
matic incident. From this unpromising start, it is not surprising that
Special Operations Executive(SOE) had considerable difficulty in
reestablishing a presence in the country.
It was not until Lazlo Veress, a young Hungarian diplomat, ap-
peared in Turkey, apparently on a semiofficial mission to negotiate a
surrender to the Allies, that a radio was successfully infiltrated into
Budapest. Harold Gibson, the long-serving Russian-speakingSecret
Intelligence Servicehead of station in Istanbul, rejected Veress’s
overtures, but Bill Bailey proved more accommodating. Two trans-
mitters were handed over to Veress, who made his way home in Sep-
tember 1943 and managed to maintain contact until the German
invasion in March 1944. Veress then made his way to Zagreb, where
he found some Partisans and talked his way onto a flight to Bari.
With Veress out of the country, SOE was again at a disadvantage, so
Peter Boughey, head of the Hungarian subsection inBaker Street,
whose own staff had been depleted by the prosecution and imprison-