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ment of the Soviet agentOrmond Uren, volunteered to lead a
‘‘blind’’ mission. His team was caught within a few hours of landing
near Lake Balaton, and Boughey was delivered to the Gestapo. Only
Boughey survived the war, having escaped from a PoW camp in Sile-
sia, where he had been sent as a noncommissioned officer. He even-
tually reached England via Odessa. Another mission, dropped blind
into southern Hungary, was also eliminated, and anOffice of Strate-
gic Servicesattempt, led by Florimond Duke, resulted in him going
to Colditz. Basil Davidson, who had parachuted into Yugoslavia in
September 1943 with the intention of reaching Hungary, was never
able to do so.
SOE’s Hungarian subsection, designated MP, was headed byHar-
old Perkinsin London and had an operations section inCairoto
infiltrate missions through Czechoslovakia. The main military mis-
sion,windproofin 1944, was unable to venture further than Slo-
vakia, where it remained as liaison with the leader of the Slovak
revolt, General Golian, until its leader, John Sehmer, was shot by the
Germans.HUTTON INQUIRY.Lord Hutton conducted an inquiry into the cir-
cumstances and background to the July 2003 suicide ofDavid Kelly,
a senior Defence Intelligence analyst and expert on Iraqi weapons of
mass destruction. Despite considerable criticism of the Ministry of
Defence’s handling of him, when he was exposed as having leaked
sensitive information to the BBC relating to disquiet within the intel-
ligence community over the composition of the two dossiers prepared
in September 2002 and February 2003 by the government in anticipa-
tion of an invasion of Iraq, Tony Blair’s administration was exoner-
ated.
HYDE, HARFORD MONTGOMERY.When Harford Montgomery
Hyde joinedSection Din 1939, at the suggestion of a friend of his
wife, he found that he was obliged to share a room in the organiza-
tion’s temporary offices, in the St. Ermin’s Hotel, withGuy Burgess.
Unlike Burgess, who experienced no trouble in joining Section D,
Hyde’s application was held up afterMI5reported the sinister news
that six years earlier he had applied for a single, one-way ticket for a
voyage to Russia. Did this mean he had intended to remain in Mos-