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chant seaman identified inisosasrutherford. Two months earlier
Scott-Ford had reported being approached in Lisbon by a German
who was interested in information, but Scott-Ford insisted that he had
turned the offer down. Under interrogation atCamp 020, however,
Scott-Ford admitted that he had passed details of convoys to the Ger-
mans and had taken notes concerning HMSMalayato pass on to
them at the next opportunity. Unrepentant, Scott-Ford was tried at the
Old Bailey in October 1942 and hanged at Wandsworth in November.SCRAMBLE. Secret Intelligence Service(SIS) code name for an op-
eration to infiltrate agents into the southern Soviet republics after
World War II. Most of the agents were captured and turned, and in
January 1963Kim Philbywas accused of having betrayed the net-
work while he was SIS’s station commander in Istanbul between
1946 and 1949. While Philby admitted having spied for the Soviets,
he denied having underminedscramble.
SECRET INTELLIGENCE SERVICE (SIS).Created in 1909 as the
Foreign Section of the Secret Service Bureau, SIS has been headed
by 13 Chiefs. Known since 1916 as MI6, the organization’s military
intelligence designation, SIS was not officially acknowledged by
ministers as having a peacetime existence until 1992. Hitherto
Whitehall had maintained the convenient fiction that SIS had oper-
ated only during World Wars I and II.
SIS achieved its largest size and greatest influence in the latter
stages of World War II, when the organization’s leadership included
Kenneth Cohenas director of production and his controllersPatrick
Whinney(Western Hemisphere),Harry Carr(Northern Region),
John Teagueand Commander William H. Bremner (Eastern Medi-
terranean), Rex Millar (Americas), andDick Ellis(Special). The
head of the Intelligence Department was John Morley, assisted by
Annabel Leach.
Theproduction sectionsincluded: P2 Europe (Italy, Spain, Portu-
gal, North Africa, Switzerland), headed byDesmond Bristow; P3,
headed by Peter Bide, assisted by Phillip Wyatt; P5 (Balkans), under
Leonard Harris, assisted by Wilhemind Payne Sparrow; P6 and P7,
headed by Christopher Phillpotts and Wood (Scandinavia, Poland,
Czechoslovakia, Finland, and the Moscow Station); and P8, headed