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the foreign press, which spilled over to England, was too much for
Rennie to endure, especially as he had become the first Chief to be a
target for terrorists, and he handed over the reins to his deputy, Old-
field, a few months short of what would gave been his official retire-
ment date, January 1974.REQUIREMENTS SECTIONS.During and after World War II the
Secret Intelligence Servicemirrored the ‘‘P’’production sections
with ‘‘R’’ requirements sections responsible for liaising with clients
of theSecret Intelligence Service(SIS) in Whitehall and setting tar-
gets for intelligence collection. The R Sections were headed by the
director of requirements (DR), the ACSS, Wing CommanderJames
Easton. The R Sections were R1 (Political), R2 (Air), R3 (Naval),
R4 (Military), R5 (Counterespionage), R6 (Economic), R7 (Sci-
ence), and R8 (Coordination). The size of each section varied from a
single officer in R1 (David Footman) to 20 in R5. The reorganiza-
tion in 1944 resulted in the following personnel in the R Sections:
- R1: George Pinney, Charles Dundas, Francis Head, Richard
Comyns-Carr, Enthoven, Miskin - R2: Squadron Leader Hugo
- R3: Commander George Birley
- R4: Lieutenant C. Priest, Major Skinner
- R5:Kim Philby, TonyMilne,F.Witty,A.M.M.Makins,Mrs.
H. M. Montgomery, Michael Morton, Robert O. Slocum,Charles
Ransom, Peter Fairbairn, Geoffrey Hinton, Smith-Wright, White-
stone, Evans, Robert Carew-Hunt, Mrs. Jane Archer, I. de Jong,
Kenneth Worke, Robert Smith - R6: Rear Admiral Limpenny
R2 and R4 personnel were not SIS officers but seconded staff from
the War Office and Admiralty, usually on a tour of two years.RESETTLEMENT.One geographical advantage exploited by British
Intelligence has been its ability to resettle redundant agents or isolate
troublemakers without imprisoning them. ThusJohann De Graaf,
Olga Gray, and Gottfried Treviranus were successfully relocated in
Canada prior to World War II, and during the Cyprus Emergency,
Archbishop Makarioswas spirited away to the Seychelles in the In-