JOYCE, WILLIAM• 281versity background who had studied a scientific subject. In later years
Jones was to play a key role in devising countermeasures for German
scientific breakthroughs. He helped ‘‘bend’’ the radio beams used to
guide Luftwaffe bombers to their targets, developed an apparatus to
jam the enemy’s radar, and monitored the production of Hitler’s V-
weapons.
After the war, Jones reentered academic life, but in 1952 he was
invited back to the Ministry of Defence to head a new Directorate of
Scientific Intelligence, a post that coincidentally brought him into
contact withSir Percy Sillitoe,Peter Wright, and the Soviet micro-
phone codenamedsatyr. Jones once more returned to academic life
in Aberdeen in 1954. Decades later, he wrote Most Secret War
(1978), an unprecedented analysis of his contribution to the scientific
war prosecuted behind the scenes by the boffins. His decision to pub-
lish this book was prompted by the discovery of various of Jones’s
wartime research papers in the Public Record Office. The BBC re-
searchers who uncovered the material announced that they intended
to use it in a television series with or without his cooperation. Ac-
cordingly, he sought permission to write his own account of his war-
time work, in which he describes how the German atomic scientists
captured at the end of the war were accommodated at Farm Hall, in
a safe house near Cambridge that had been wired for sound. The re-
sulting recordings and transcripts were only officially acknowledged
and released by the British government in March 1992, more than 45
years after they were made, but only 14 since Jones advocated that
they be made public.
In 1989 Jones published his autobiography,Reflections on Intelli-
gence, in which he elaborated on some of the topics that in 1978 were
considered too sensitive for public consumption, among them the
true identity of the author of the Oslo Report,Hans Mayer. Jones
died in December 1997, his extraordinary contributions to British in-
telligence unrewarded with any official decorations.JOYCE, WILLIAM.Known as ‘‘Lord Haw-Haw,’’ William Joyce was
an enthusiastic Nazi, of Irish-American background, who left Lon-
don for Berlin in 1939. He was arrested on the Danish frontier in
May 1945 and prosecuted for having collaborated with the enemy by
broadcasting German propaganda over the radio. His case was inves-
tigated byJim SkardonofMI5, and he was hanged at Wandsworth
in January 1946.