472 • SCOTLAND YARD
At the outbreak of World War II, aged 60, Scotland was posted to
Dieppe in charge of port security and an empty PoW camp, but was
evacuated, with 18 PoWs, in May 1940. Thereafter he headed an em-
bryonic War Crimes Investigation Unit and was later to give evidence
at several postwar prosecutions, including that of Field Marshal Al-
bert Kesselring. He published his memoirs,The London Cage,in
1957 in the face of considerable opposition from the War Office.SCOTLAND YARD. See METROPOLITAN POLICE; SPECIAL
BRANCH.
SCOTT. NKVDcode name for the leader of theOxford Ring, an espi-
onage network of Communists recruited at the university before
World War II.scott’s true identity is unknown, but one candidate is
Christopher Hill, the Marxist historian and former master of Balliol
College.
TheKGB archivesin Moscow contain several references to
scottwritten byTheodore Mally. One reads: ‘‘scott. I wrote to
you about him in my last letter. Through him we acquiredbunny.
He has given me about 25 leads. Most of these are raw material, but
there are 4–5 among them who have already been studied and on
whom we have already started working.’’
scottsubmitted a report in April 1937 entitled ‘‘On Potential
Candidates in Oxford’’:
The number of student Party members is at present 115. By June this num-
ber will increase to 145. I have a list of the future professions of 80 stu-
dents and will soon get another list of 35 people. Of the above, 32 students
will leave Oxford at the end of the next term (June).He listed the graduates according to profession, and they included:Civil Service, 17; Scientific workers, 18; Teachers, 23; Army, 1; Law, 5;
University lecturers, 7; Business, 2; Politicians, 3; Social services, 1; Doc-
tors, 1; Undecided, 1. Judging by the experience of the previous 5–6 years,
we may expect that 80–90 percent will remain active Party members. As
far as I know, during this period, of about 600 people, only two have be-
trayed the Party. One became a fascist—the other a Trotskyite. About 60
became passive members or were lost sight of. This can be explained by
the fact that either they obtained appointments which were incompatible