30 • B DIVISION
pensive espionage case in English legal history—the jury acquitted
all the defendants in October 1985. The defendants were Senior Air-
craftsmen Geoffrey Jones, Adam Lightowler, Wayne Kreihn, Chris-
topher Payne, Gwynfor Owen, and Martin Tuffy, and Lance Corporal
Anthony Glass. The charges against Signalman Hardman were
dropped on medical grounds.
Three inquiries were instituted as a result of the case. TheSecurity
Commission, chaired by Lord Griffiths, found weaknesses in person-
nel management on the base, in that officers and noncommissioned
officers took no interest in how the junior ranks spent their free time,
and in the handling and destruction of classified documents. A sec-
ond inquiry, conducted by David Calcutt, QC, pursued the issue of
the men’s confessions and found that, while they had been subject to
interviews that produced statements which were inadmissible, noth-
ing improper had taken place. The findings of a third investigation,
by the Ministry of Defence, were not published.–B–B DIVISION.The wartimeMI5subsection responsible for German
counterespionageandheadedbyGuy Liddell. The division in-
cluded the following departments:
- B1 was led byDick Whiteand comprised B1(a), headed by Major
T. A. Robertson, responsible for runningdouble agentsagainst the
Germans; B1(b), headed byHerbert Hart, responsible for the anal-
ysis of intercepted enemy communications relevant to German dou-
ble agents; B1(c), headed byLord Rothschild, responsible for
countersabotage; B1(d), headed by Ronald Haylor, responsible for
liaison with theRoyal Victoria Patriotic School; B1(f ), headed by
Courtney Young, responsible for the investigation ofJapanesees-
pionage; B1(g), headed byDick Brooman-White, responsible for
the investigation of Spanish, Portuguese, and South American espi-
onage; B1(h), headed byCecil Liddell, responsible forIreland;
B1(k), headed by Mr. Machell, responsible for the investigation of
leakages of information; and B1(l), responsible for the investigation
of seamen and airlines personnel, under Richman Stopford