ALLIANCE• 13ALLEN, WILLIAM.Educated at Eton, Bill Allen was elected the Un-
ionist MP for West Belfast in 1929 but resigned in 1931 and became
an ardent supporter of Sir Oswald Moseley’sBritish Union of Fas-
cists(BUF). He was also one ofMax Knight’s agents, supplying
MI5with valuable information about the structure, activities, person-
alities, and funding of the BUF. During World War II, Allen served
in the Life Guards in the Middle East and Africa, and in 1943 he was
appointed press attache ́at the British embassy in Beirut. Later he was
to serve as a diplomat in Ankara until 1949. A lifelong friend ofKim
Philby, Allen employed Philby to ghostwrite a history of his fami-
ly’s Belfast-based publishing firm after the suspected traitor had been
fired from theSecret Intelligence Service. The book was published
in 1957 without any acknowledgment of Philby’s role.
ALLEN, VIC.ACommunist Party of Great Britainactivist and a
founder of theCampaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Professor Vic
Allen was born in 1923 and left school at the age of 15 to become a
bricklayer. He served in the Royal Air Force during World War II and
later studied at the London School of Economics. After gaining his
doctorate, he was appointed a lecturer at Leeds University in 1959.
According to an examination of the Hauptverwaltung Aufklarung
files released after the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989, he was
also anagent of influencefor East Germany.
ALLEY, STEPHEN.A veteran Russian-speakingSecret Intelligence
Service(SIS) officer, Major Stephen Alley was based in Paris be-
tween the wars and worked withSidney Reilly. During World War I,
he had operated for SIS in St. Petersburg and had been evacuated in
February 1918. After the war he served inMI5for three years, and
then moved to Paris where he ran a business trading in commodities.
ALLFORD HOUSE.Headquarters of the Russian subsection of the
Diplomatic SectionofGCHQin Park Lane, London, headed by
Bernard Scott and including John Croft and Felix Fetterlien. A highly
secure satellite of the Berkeley Street offices led byAlastair Dennis-
tonfrom 1942, Allford House produced theiscotintercepts.
ALLIANCE.Code name of a successful intelligence network, with
nearly 2,000 members, run by theSecret Intelligence Servicein