INDUSTRIAL INTELLIGENCE CENTRE• 257By establishing Censorship and Contraband Control offices in Ber-
muda and Trinidad, British intelligence exercised the right of inspec-
tion, censorship, delay, and confiscation on all the transatlantic
traffic, with the sole exception of the Italian airline route from Recife
to Dakar, which was in any case closed in 1941 following an inten-
sive campaign of sabotage and political pressure orchestrated by
British Security Coordination.INDIAN POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE BUREAU (IPI).IPI devel-
oped out of India’s Home Intelligence Bureau, headed by Sir Cecil
Kaye from 1919 to 1924. Arguably one of the most successful British
Intelligence organizations, IPI provided the India Office,MI5, and
theSecret Intelligence Servicewith information about Indian na-
tionalism and Communist agitation from a comprehensive network
of agents. Its directors included Sir Philip Vickery, Sir Horace Wil-
son, andSir David Petrie, who was appointeddirector-general of
the Security Servicein 1940. During World War II the organization
was commonly referred to as the Delhi Intelligence Bureau.
The first Indian Intelligence Department was established in 1878
at Simla, covering the Middle East, following fears of Russian plans
to close the Suez Canal. In 1886 Colonel C. S. Maclean was ap-
pointed to head a Central Asian intelligence branch for the Indian
army at Meshed, where he was appointed consul-general, and he re-
tained a record of his operations, conducted between October 1886
and March 1992 in a private diary, published asThe Great Game.
INDOCHINA. Special Operations Executive(SOE) operations in
French Indochina during World War II were directed toward contact-
ing and supporting pro-Allied members of the local administration.
The operations includedbelief,radical, andvogue.mastifand
birdcagewere designed to liberate PoW camps inSiam. After the
Japanese surrender in August 1945, SOE provided personnel for the
establishment of an intelligence branch at South-East Asia Com-
mand.
INDUSTRIAL INTELLIGENCE CENTRE (IIC).Created in 1936
by theSecret Intelligence Serviceto monitor German rearmament
and headed by MajorDesmond Morton, the IIC gathered informa-