LANGLEY, J. M.• 303LANDAU, HENRY.Born in South Africa of Anglo-Dutch parentage,
Henry Landau graduated from Cambridge shortly before the out-
break of World War I. He volunteered for military service and was
commissioned in the Royal Field Artillery, but in 1916 he received a
summons to Admiral Mansfield Smith-Cumming’s headquarters in
Whitehall Court. Fluent in German, Dutch, and French, Landau was
instructed to rebuild theSecret Intelligence Service(SIS) train-
watching service in Belgium, which monitored the enemy’s troop
movements right across the Western Front. The ring operated behind
the German lines and was codenamedwhite lady.
After the war, following the success of his train-watching activi-
ties, Landau moved to the United States, where he was out of reach
of the British courts. No action was taken againstAll’s Fair(1934),
but the government apparently threatened to place a ban on the distri-
bution of the sequel,Secrets of the White Lady(1935). In it, he ad-
mitted that he had ‘‘not attempted to disguise the names of Allied
agents. My friends in Belgium and France assure me that if damage
could be done by divulging them, it was done years ago when a com-
plete list of agents’ names was published in the various decoration
lists.’’ Landau’s other books wereThe Enemy WithinandSpreading
the Spy Net, both published in 1937, which dealt in some detail with
his experiences in SIS and can today be recognized as the first in a
genre. SIS’s embarrassment at the publication ofSecrets of the White
Ladywas enhanced considerably by the author’s assurance that the
documents quoted in the text ‘‘have been taken from secret service
records which have hitherto been unavailable for publication.’’
LANDER, SIR STEPHEN. Director-general of the Security Service
from 1996 to 2001, Stephen Lander was educated at Bishops Stort-
ford College, read history at Queen’s College, Cambridge, and
joined the Security Service in 1975, having spent three years at the
Institute of Historical Research at London University. After his re-
tirement, Lander was appointed to the Board of Customs and Excise
and made chairman of the Law Society’s Complaints Committee. In
2004 he became director of its Serious and Organised Crime Agency.
LANGLEY, J. M.The son of a high court judge, Jimmy Langley was
a captain in the Coldstream Guards when he was badly wounded at
Calais. Late in 1940, having lost his left arm, he was helped to escape