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dreas Mayor, whose sister Tess was later to marryLord Rothschild,
and his close friendGraham Greene, whose sister Elizabeth was
already working for theSecret Intelligence Service(SIS). Through
her intervention, both Muggeridge and Greene obtained transfers into
SIS. For Muggeridge this involved a preliminary interview with the
thriller writerValentine Williamsat his London club, the Savage.
Once accepted into the Secret Service, Muggeridge found himself as-
signed toSection V, where he met a fellow journalist,Kim Philby,
with whom he was to work closely.
In March 1942 Muggeridge was posted byLeslie Nicholsonto the
East African port of Lorenc ̧o Marques, where he remained under
consular cover for nearly 18 months before he was recalled to Lon-
don and sent to the SIS station in Algiers to liaise with General de
Gaulle’s intelligence service. His period in Mozambique was a mel-
ancholy one, and his depression reached such depths that at one point
he attempted suicide by trying to drown himself in the Indian Ocean;
at the last minute, he had a change of heart and swam for the shore.
Upon his return to London from North Africa, Muggeridge was
assigned to Paris, where his formal employment by SIS ended. He
went back to journalism, for theDaily Telegraph, but continued to
undertake special assignments for SIS and was invited to lecture at
SIS’s training weekends, routinely held at Worcester College, Ox-
ford.
Muggeridge was to publish not only two volumes of his autobiog-
raphyChronicles of a Wasted Time, in which he discussed his work
for SIS, but also a diary he had kept during the war—which was
strictly against SIS’s rules.Like It Was, a collection of his diaries,
was published in 1981 and contains a daily account of his activities
from his arrival in Lisbon in 1942 en route to Mozambique. Among
those mentioned in the Portuguese section of the diaries is Rita Win-
sor, a key figure in the local SIS station and formerly a member of
the prewar SIS station in Zurich. Other SIS personalities included in
the diaries were Liza Greene and two postwar SIS Chiefs, General
Sir John Sinclairand his successor,Dick White.MUHIE, GENERAL A. J. M.A senior Iraqi trained at Camberley
Staff College, General Muhie was dismissed by Saddam Hussein
afterdesert stormin 1991 and became a supporter of the Iraqi Na-