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In the postwar era, Straight had run his family’s journal, theNew
Republic, until 1955 and latterly published several novels and an at-
tack on McCarthyism,Trial by Television. From 1969 to 1977 he was
deputy chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. Straight,
who died in January 2004 in Chicago, married thrice and is survived
by his widows and five children from his first marriage to Belinda
Crompton, from whom he was divorced in 1969.STRIKE OX.Code name for an ill-fated World War II sabotage opera-
tion, also known aslumps, intended to blow up the port facilities at
Oxelo ̈sund, Sweden, and thereby deny them to the Nazis, who relied
upon Swedish iron ore. TheSection Dsaboteurs led byAlexander
Rickmanwho were deployed to complete the mission were arrested
and imprisoned by the Swedish security police.
STRONG, SIR KENNETH.Born in 1900 and educated at Montrose
and Sandhurst, Kenneth Strong was commissioned into the Royal
Scots Fusiliers in 1920 and in 1937 was appointed assistant military
attache ́in Berlin, where he was a witness to the Munich Crisis of
- Fluent in German, French, Italian, and Spanish, he headed the
German Section of the War Office’s military intelligence directorate
upon his return to England at the end of August 1939 and thenMI14.
Strong was selected as General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s chief intelli-
gence officer in February 1943. At the end of the war, he headed the
Political Intelligence Department at the Foreign Office until his re-
tirement from the army in 1947. The following year Strong founded
theJoint Intelligence Bureauand remained head of it until 1964
when he was made the first director-general of intelligence at the new
Ministry of Defence until his statutory retirement in 1966.
In 1968 Strong published his autobiography,Intelligence at the
Top, followed byMen of Intelligence(1970). He died in January - Always skeptical of the value of secret intelligence, he was
fond of quoting Admiral Wemyss’s remark that the product of secret
intelligence is ‘‘uncertain information from questionable people.’’
STUART, SIR CAMPBELL.Appointed assistant military attache ́in
Washington, D.C., in 1917, Campbell Stuart had been educated at
universities in Virginia and Melbourne. In 1918 he was appointed