MILLER, JOAN• 361cated at Loreto and St. John’s College, Cambridge, Millar joined the
Rifle Brigade after his evacuation from Paris, but in October 1941 he
was captured in North Africa and transferred to a prison camp in
Italy. He succeeded in escaping from a prison train near Munich and
made his way to Strasbourg and across France to Madrid, where ar-
rangements were made for him to be flown from Gibraltar to En-
gland. After his arrival, Millar’s bona fides were confirmed by
Delmer, and he was invited to volunteer forF SectionofSpecial
Operations Executive(SOE). He underwent the agents’ training
course at Wanborough Manor and the parachute practice at RAF
Ringway. Finally, four days beforeD-Day, he was dropped north of
Besanc ̧on to organize thechancellorre ́seau; using the code name
e ́mile, he remained in the area until it was liberated by the Ameri-
cans in October.
Upon his return to London, Millar dined with Lord Beaverbrook,
who offered him his job back at theExpress. However, Millar opted
to writeMaquis, a heavily censored account of his work with the re-
sistance, and thenHorned Pigeon, the story of his escape. In neither
did he mention his many decorations for gallantry, among them the
DSO and Military Cross. Later he spent much of his time cruising
his yacht in the Mediterranean and farming in Dorset.MILLER, JOAN.Joan Miller was the maiden name of Mrs. Joanna
Phipps, who was recruited into the Security Service in 1939 by
MI5’s legendary agent-runner,Max Knight. When she reported to
work at MI5’s wartime headquarters at Wormwood Scrubs, she had
little idea that she would soon to be deployed againstAnna Wolkoff,
a leading member of the anti-SemiticRight Cluband a suspected
Nazi spy. Miller’s task was to penetrate this group of pro-Fascist ac-
tivists and collect evidence against Wolkoff and the Unionist MP for
Peebles, Captain Archibald Ramsay. Miller befriended Ramsay’s
wife and was later to provide crucial testimony for the prosecution of
Wolkoff and her contact in the U.S. embassy in London,Tyler Kent.
Both Wolkoff and Kent were convicted at the Old Bailey and impris-
oned. Their trial was attended byMalcolm Muggeridge, who was
present as an observer for theIntelligence Corps.
While still working for MI5, Miller married Tom Tinloch-Jones,
but her marriage failed and in 1973 she married Julian Phipps, the