362 • MILLS, CYRIL
Daily Mailcartoonist who happened to be a close friend ofDerek
Tangye, the MI5 officer and author ofThe Way to Minack. Miller’s
memoirs, entitledOne Girl’s War, were ghosted by Pat Craig, an Ul-
ster journalist who relied on notes that she wrote during her declining
years in Malta. The book was originally intended to be published in
London by Lord Weidenfeld, but in November 1986 the attorney-
general, Sir Michael Havers, obtained an injunction to prevent its dis-
tribution in England. Miller died in June 1985 but her daughter Jon-
quil arranged forOne Girl’s Warto be released in Ireland by a small
publishing house, Brandon Books, based in Dingle, County Kerry.
The attorney-general then made an unsuccessful attempt in Dublin to
obtain an injunction but the Irish High Court ruled that a ban would
be a breach of Eire’s constitution. It was not until March 1992 that
the ban in England was lifted.MILLS, CYRIL.The Bertram Mills Circus was a thoroughly British
institution of world renown. What was less well known was the
intelligence role of the founder’s son, Cyril Mills, who as an amateur
aviator in the early 1930s regularly flew around the Continent—
ostensibly in search of venue for his big top or an appointment with
an auditioning performer, but actually to collect intelligence and take
aerial photographs of sensitive military airfields. At sites where Brit-
ish air attache ́s were unwelcome, Mills often succeeded in obtaining
permission to land his private plane, and in August 1936 he success-
fully completed his most difficult mission, an aerial survey of the
Messerschmitt factory at Ravensburg.
Following this introduction to the profession of intelligence, Mills
was recruited by the Security Service in 1940 and spent the first part
of his clandestine career in B Division, the counterespionage
branch, where he came into contact with Germandouble agentsfor
the first time. One of the agents he handled, using the cover name
‘‘Mr. Grey,’’ was Juan Pujol, whom he codenamedgarboin April
- Mills was the subject of a ban issued byCamp 020following
the assault on a prisoner, the only incident of its kind during the war.
Soon afterward, Mills was transferred to Canada as thesecurity liai-
son officerresponsible for maintaining contact between the embry-
onic Special Branch of theRoyal Canadian Mounted Policeand
MI5’s headquarters in London. His specific task was the interroga-