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Ranfurly, Chokra Wood, E.P.J. Ryan. Arthur Sargon’s OBE (for police
work in Iraq) (London Gazette, 28 May 1926, 3453) and Pat Domvile’s
MBE (for meritorious service in Palestine) (Supplement to the London
Gazette, 11 May 1937, 3104) both predated the war.
- Some details of the surprising anticlimatic end to Perowne’s career are to
be found at CO 967/130, TNA. He was accompanied by Freya Stark to
the West Indies, where she was, of course, very popular, unlike her hus-
band, who succeeded in alienating the entire colony, black and white, offi-
cial and nonofficial. See Rance to Seel, 13 January 1949, CO 967/130,
TNA.
- Richard Goold-Adams, Middle East Journey (London: J. Murray, 1947),
50. Similarly in Private papers of AVM Robert Peel Willock, 20694,
Documents Collection, Imperial War Museum [IWM].
- Tina Tamman, Portrait of a Secret Agent Who Knew Kim Philby (York:
Thousand Eyes, 2014), chapter 8.
- See Goold-Adams, Middle East Journey, 129. My brother-in-law, Pat
Russell of 13 Lancers (see acknowledgements), who was accustomed to
oriental hygiene standards from many years spent in India, once told me
that in all his travels Baghdad was the filthiest place he had ever
encountered.
- Admiral Wilhelm Canaris (Amtschef) and General Hans Oster (Chef Abw
Z) were executed at Flossenbürg concentration camp by the SS on 9 April
1945.
- General Hans Piekenbrock (Chef Abw I) went to the Russian Front in
1943 as a divisional commander, was taken prisoner in May 1945, and
spent ten years in Soviet captivity. General Erwin Heinrich René Lahousen
Edler von Vivremont (Chef Abw II) was sent as a regimental commander
in 1943 to Russia, where he received severe shrapnel wounds but survived
the war. General Franz Eccard von Bentivegni (Chef Abw III) was trans-
ferred to Russia in 1944 and, after capture in March 1945, was sentenced
by the Soviets to 25 years’ imprisonment for war crimes committed in
Poland by the German military police (DFP), with which Abw III was then
associated. He was repatriated in 1955.
- See inter alia Harry Carl Schaub, ‘General Lahousen and the Abwehr
Resistance,’ International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence
19, no. 3 (2006): 538–58.
- In 1943 the ex-Mufti had already suggested the use of terrorist operations
against civilians in Palestine, a strategy later adopted by the Palestine
Liberation Organization (PLO), whose chairman, Yasser Arafat, was his
cousin. Barry Rubin and Wolfgang G. Schwanitz, Nazis, Islamists, and the
Making of the Modern Middle East (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,
2014), 153.
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