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defending the country when Coalition forces invaded in 2002.
Trained in tradecraft at a safe house in Syon Park, he was supplied
with Thuraya satellite phones to smuggle into Baghdad and distribute
to military commanders seeking to negotiate terms of their with-
drawal from the conflict. As a result, 41 Iraqi MiG-25 Foxbat fighters
survived the conflict intact at al-Asad airfield; General Mahar Dou-
fiane al-Tikriti, commander of the Iraqi Special Republican Guard,
ensured his elite troops did not fight; and the Mukhabarat’s director,
Tahir Jalil al-Habbush al-Takriti, simply disappeared.KIEBOOM, CHARLES VAN DER.Charles Van Der Kieboom was
one of fourAbwehragents who landed in a dinghy on the Kent coast
in 1940 but were captured within hours of their arrival. All four were
carrying identity documents in names supplied bysnow. One of his
companions, Sjoerd Pons, was acquitted at his trial under the Treach-
ery Act in November 1940 but detained for the remainder of the war.
Kieboom and the other two, Carl Meier and Jose Waldberg, were
hanged at Pentonville Prison in December.
KILOWATT.Code name for an international antiterrorist intelligence
exchange sponsored by the Israeli Mossad established in 1977 to
whichMI5and theSecret Intelligence Servicesubscribe. It concen-
trates on information relating to the identity and movement of sus-
pected Palestinian extremists.
KING, ANDREW.Originally recruited into theSecret Intelligence
Service(SIS) in 1938 as an agent for theZ Organisation, Andrew
King was educated at Wellington and read economics at Magdalene
College, Cambridge, and operated under London Films cover. Dur-
ing World War II he was posted to Switzerland, where he ran Halina
Szymanska, an important Polish agent with access to AdmiralWil-
helm Canaris. After the war he was appointed SIS’s controller, East-
ern Area, in charge of the SIS stations in Germany, Switzerland, and
Austria. He was later SIS’s head of station in Vienna and Hong Kong
but took early retirement when he acknowledged his homosexuality,
his prewar membership of theCommunist Party of Great Britain,
and his university friendship withKim Philby. He died in October
2002 aged 87.