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onage field by having read the exploits of earlier secret service per-
sonnel: ‘‘As a young member of those services, I profited a great deal
from the memoirs ofPaul DukesandCompton Mackenzieand oth-
ers who had been through the mill. What they had to say taught me
a lot and in a sense was an inspiration.’’ Thus one generation of intel-
ligence officers gave a lead to another.
After the war, Amery continued his interest in Albania and was
one of those consulted when SIS hiredDavid Smileyto train and
infiltrate anti-Communist guerrillas into Albania to topple Enver
Hoxha’s regime. Amery was elected to the House of Commons as
the Conservative member for Preston in 1950 and eventually retired
in April 1992. The following month he was elevated to the House of
Lords.AMIES, SIR HARDY.The World War II head ofT Section, theBel-
giansection of theSpecial Operations Executive(SOE), Hardy
Amies was fluent in French and German, having managed a factory
in Germany before the war. He joined SOE in early 1941 from the
Intelligence Corps as an instructor on the German Army atBeaulieu.
In November 1941 Amies began training T Section, and in August
1943 he succeeded Claude Knight as its head; he was deputy to
Philip Johnsuntil the Low Countries Section was created. In Sep-
tember 1944, Amies led SOE’s forward mission into newly liberated
Belgium. He remained in SOE until July 1945 when he returned to
the world of couturiers, being appointed the queen’s dressmaker and
receiving a knighthood in 1989.
ANAND PARBAT.Situated northeast of Delhi, India, Anand Parbat
was the location of the Wireless Experimental Station (WES),
GCHQ’s regional headquarters during World War II, accommodated
in Ramjas College. The WES was headed by ColonelPatrick Marr-
Johnsonand was divided into five sections: A, Administration; B,
Analysis; C, Codebreaking and Translation; D,Traffic Analysis; and
E, Radio Interception.
ANDAMAN ISLANDS.One of the most successful strategicdecep-
tioncampaigns of World War II, masterminded byPeter Fleming,
resulted in two Japanese divisions being used to defend the Andaman