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clared himself to be ‘‘99.9 percent certain of his guilt,’’ Martin wrote
to theTimesto insist that there were still many unanswered questions
relating to the issue of moles in MI5.
Martin’s role as an MI5 mole hunter was first disclosed by Philby,
who referred to him briefly inMy Silent Waras ‘‘a quiet young man.’’
Thereafter Martin avoided the limelight but his determination to
learn the extent to which the KGB had gained access to MI5’s secrets
gave him a notoriety that he and his wife Joan, who had been secre-
tary to the deputy director-general of the Security Service,Guy Lid-
dell, both abhorred. In 1984, at the conclusion of his postretirement
job as a Commons clerk, Martin joined forces with his SIS colleague
de Mowbray to find a publisher forNew Lies for Old, Golitsyn’s
analysis the Kremlin’s Machiavellian plotting. This was eventually
released in 1984, with Martin and de Mowbray collaborating with
two senior CIA officers, Scott Miler and Vasia Gmirkin, to write an
‘‘editor’s foreword.’’ Curiously, although Gmirkin signed the fore-
word and had spent three years as Golitsyn’s CIA case officer, he
never subscribed to the defector’s labyrinthine theories.
Martin, who married twice and had two sons, died in January
1996, aged 81.MARYLAND. Special Operations Executive(SOE) code name for
the regional headquarters at Monopoli on the Adriatic, established in
1943 while SOECairowas placed under overall command of Gen-
eral W. A. Stawell. Both Monopoli and Bari, just down the coast,
played an important part in the liberation of German-occupiedItaly,
and in Northern and Eastern Europe as well. Polish and Czech opera-
tions were conducted from Monopoli by Henry Threlfall’sForce
139 , which established an operational base at Latiano and a training
school at Ostuni. Also at Monopoli was No. 1 Special Force, com-
manded byGerald Holdsworth, which was later to move north to
Siena. Logistics were handled by Brigadier Miles’sForce 333, an-
other offshoot of SOE Cairo, now renamedForce 133. Located at
Torre di Mare, it was conveniently close to the Royal Air Force air-
fields at Apulia and Brindisi, which were also used as supply routes
toAlbania,Yugoslavia, and points east.
The small harbor at Monopoli also accommodated the Adriatic
flotilla of SOE’s private navy, under the command ofMorgan Mor-