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inCairoto negotiate an armistice, but a proposal to send another
SOE mission to Bucharest was blocked by the Foreign Office, which
had agreed with Moscow that the British would stay out of Romania
in return for Soviet acceptance not to interfere inGreece.ROMEO SPY.The term applied to male agents trained during the Cold
War in the art of lovemaking with the objective of cultivating, seduc-
ing, and recruiting vulnerable women as intelligence sources. This
tactic was a specialty of theEast German intelligence service. The
KGBpersuaded a former Scotland Yard detective,John Symonds,
to learn and apply the skills required to target the wives and daugh-
ters ofCentral Intelligence Agencypersonnel in Africa and India
during the 1970s.
ROOM 40.Named after its location within the Old Admiralty Build-
ing, ‘‘Room 40’’ became the term used to refer to thedirector of
naval intelligence’s cryptographic unit, the origin of theNaval In-
telligence Division’s best signals intelligence during World War I,
including theZimmermann Telegramin 1917. Room 40 staff,
headed bySir Alfred Ewingand AdmiralReginald Hall, included
some of Britain’s most impressive codebreakers, among themNigel
de GreyandOliver Strachey. As well as reading the enemy’s diplo-
matic wireless traffic, they read many of theZeppelinand U-boat
signals.
ROPER, HUGH TREVOR.SeeTREVOR ROPER, HUGH.
ROSBAUD, PAUL.The editor of Springer Verlag scientific journals
before World War II, Paul Rosbaud was an Austrian, married to Hil-
degard Frank, who was Jewish. Rosbaud had become an Anglophile
while a prisoner of the British in Italy during World War I and was
willingly recruited byFrank Foleyof theSecret Intelligence Ser-
vice(SIS) in Berlin in 1933. A Roman Catholic, he was considered
highly reliable and his messages were assessed to be especially sig-
nificant and accurate because he regularly talked to Walther Gerlach,
the physicist who was responsible for coordinating the Nazi atomic
bomb project. According toR. V. Jones, the SIS scientific adviser,