MARSHALL-CORNWALL, SIR JAMES• 331Depot at Abbottabad near Rawalpindi. Marr-Johnson spoke fluent
Japanese and his command of the language was so good that he could
pass as a native speaker, although he acknowledged a real Japanese
would trip him up on nursery rhymes and childhood memories. After
the war he was posted to Washington, D.C., to liaise onvenonaand
later retired to Jamaica.MARSHALL, WILLIAM.Formerly a Royal Signals soldier with ser-
vice in Palestine and Egypt, Marshall joined theDiplomatic Wire-
less Service(DWS) in 1948 and was posted to Moscow. At the end
of April 1952 he was spotted by an off-dutyMI5watcher meeting
Pavel Kuznetsov, a suspectedKGBofficer in London under diplo-
matic cover, and became the target for an investigation. Further
meetings were monitored, and both men were arrested by police in
Wandsworth. A search produced a scrap of paper with information
about the DWS’s headquarters atHanslope Park, and Marshall was
tried at the Old Bailey and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for
breaches of theOfficial Secrets Act.
MARSHALL-CORNWALL, SIR JAMES.A professional soldier
who rarely experienced command of troops in the field, James Mar-
shall-Cornwall was drafted into theSecret Intelligence Service
(SIS) with the rank of deputy director in the spring of 1943. The in-
tention was to silence criticism from SIS’s military clients that the
organization’s information was inadequate to their needs. Marshall-
Cornwall learned his trade from SirClaude Dansey, and upon the
latter’s retirement the following year took over his post.
Born James Cornwall, he changed his name in 1927 so as to inherit
his maternal uncle’s estate in Scotland. By that time he had acquired
a reputation as one of the most gifted linguists of his generation and
had been highly decorated in World War I when he had spent two
years as an intelligence officer at GHQ in France. In January 1918
he had been appointed to head MI3, a section of military intelligence
at the War Office, and then went to the Paris Peace Conference to
represent the General Staff.
Between the wars he headed the military mission to Egypt and in
1938 was placed in charge of Britain’s air defense. In 1940 he helped
evacuate Allied troops from Cherbourg, and in November 1941 he