MORGAN-GILES, SIR MORGAN• 377his book, which completely misrepresented MI5’s handling of the
Fuchs case. The result was a highly inaccurate version of the investi-
gation into Fuchs that concealed the embarrassing fact that the physi-
cist had been recommended for close scrutiny upon his return to
England in 1945 and that his personal file had been endorsed with the
comment that he was definitely a covert Communist and ‘‘probably a
Russian spy.’’MORAVEC, FRANTISEK.The head of Czech military intelligence,
General Frantisek Moravec was evacuated by air to London in March
1939 by theSecret Intelligence Service(SIS) head of station in
Prague, Harold Gibson, and subsequently allowed his organization to
be run as an SIS surrogate during much of World War II. Moravec
was accompanied by his deputy, Major Emil Strankmueller, and 10
other senior staff. While based in London Moravec was accommo-
dated by SIS in Rosendale Road, West Dulwich, an office in Porches-
ter Gate, and provided with a radio station in Woldingham.
The Czechs’ principal asset was Paul Thu ̈mmel, codenamed A-54,
who was anAbwehrofficer and long-serving member of the Nazi
party who had volunteered to work for Moravec. When Gibson was
transferred to Istanbul, another senior SIS officer, Rex Howard, took
over as the liaison officer, and A-54 continued to supply information
until his arrest in February 1942.
Long after the war, Moravec wrote his memoirs,Master of Spies,
and a later study ofvenonatexts suggested that he had become too
close to the NKVDrezidentin London, Ivan Chichayev.
MORGAN-GILES, SIR MORGAN.Educated at Clifton College,
Morgan Morgan-Giles joined the Royal Navy in 1932 and served on
the China Station in destroyers. During World War II, he sailed with
the Atlantic convoys and in 1941 participated in the defense of To-
bruk. In 1943 Morgan-Giles was appointed the senior naval officer at
Vis, Croatia, responsible for supervising the transfer of supplies
across the Adriatic for Tito’s partisans. After the war, he remained in
the navy and in 1953 became chief of naval intelligence, Far East.
Upon his retirement in 1964, Rear Admiral Morgan-Giles was
elected the Conservative MP for Winchester, succeedingSir Peter
Smithers.