554 • ULJANOV, VLADIMIR
April 1956 with the consent of the prime minister,Anthony Eden,
under the cover of a U.S. Air force unit, the Weather Reconnaissance
Squadron (Provisional). Soon afterward, Eden withdrew his permis-
sion and the aircraft were transferred to Giebelstadt in West Ger-
many, with overflights of East Germany commencing in June 1956.ULJANOV, VLADIMIR.In 1905 Detective Constable Herbert Fitch
ofSpecial Branch, who spoke German, Russian, and French, was
assigned the task of monitoring a group of revolutionary exiles who
booked rooms as the ‘‘Foreign Barbers of London.’’ Fitch hid in a
cupboard in a pub in Islington to listen to the speeches and noted
contributions from Vladimir Uljanov and Leib Bronstein who ad-
dressed an audience of about 20. Fitch later heard both men call for a
general strike in Russia while speaking to another gathering in Great
Portland Street, and he received a promotion to the rank of detective
sergeant. Uljanov and Bronstein later adopted the noms de guerre
‘‘Lenin’’ and ‘‘Trotsky.’’
ULTRA.SeeBONIFACE.
UNITED STATES. MI5cooperation with the American authorities
originated with the case of Gunther Rumrich, a spy caught as a result
of ColonelEdward Hinchley-Cooke’s interception of mail sent to
an address inHamburgknown to have been used by the local Ab-
wehrstelle. That operation identified Mrs. Jessie Jordan’s mail drop
in Scotland, and one of the letters described a plot to attack an Amer-
ican army officer to steal important documents in his possession. MI5
reported this to Colonel Lee, the U.S. military attache ́in London, and
as a consequence severalAbwehrofficers in Germany were indicted
and others were convicted in the United States.
In March 1938 CaptainGuy Liddellvisited Washington, D.C.,
and met officials in the War Department and the State Department’s
Political Relations Section and the director of theFederal Bureau of
Investigation(FBI), J. Edgar Hoover, and an exchange of informa-
tion on German and Italian (Nazi and Fascist) parties overseas was
agreed. On his return to London in April 1938, Liddell established
close links with Colonel Lee and Herschel Johnson, the U.S. charge ́
d’affaires, and was asked for a general outline of what a new U.S.