72 • BROADSIDE
BROADSIDE.Code name for the introduction of internment inPales-
tinein June 1946 prompted by a raid on the British base atSarafand,
where the armory was emptied to provide weapons for theHaganah.
Some 3,000 detainees were arrested and questioned at an interroga-
tion center established at Rafiah. The operation achieved plenty of
good intelligence and served to isolate theIrgunfrom the Haganah.
BROADWAY.Until 1966 the headquarters of theSecret Intelligence
Servicewere located at 54 Broadway, conveniently close to Victoria
and Westminster and immediately adjacent to 21 Queen Anne’s Gate,
then the official residence of the chief.
BROMO. Secret Intelligence Servicecode name for Jose ́Laradogoi-
tia, a Basque recruited by theAbwehrin Spain and sent to Rio de
Janeiro, where he sent letters to his German contact in Madrid using
secret writing. He then moved to the United States, where he had
lived before the war until he had been deported for check fraud.
Alerted byBritish Security Coordination,bromowas recruited as
adouble agent, and he continued to send his letters under control
from New York until March 1944 when he starting transmitting by
wireless. TheFederal Bureau of Investigationsupplied him with
twonominal agents,albertoandluis.
BRONX. MI5code name for Elvira Chaudoir (ne ́e de la Fuentes), who
was aSecret Intelligence Service(SIS) agent in Vichy where her
father was a Peruvian diplomat. As a neutral, she acted as a courier
in France for SIS and then worked for MI5 after she had been ap-
proached by theAbwehrin Paris in October 1942. Under the super-
vision of her case officer, Hugh Astor, she conveyed false military
information until the end of the war. As a popular London socialite
and a predatory lesbian, Elvira had many useful contacts in London.
BROOK, GERALD.A Russian-speaking university lecturer, Gerald
Brook was arrested in Moscow in 1965 and convicted of distributing
subversive literature on behalf of the Ukrainian nationalist movement
(NTS). Although Brook denied any involvement with British Intelli-
gence, NTS had always been supported by theSecret Intelligence
Servicebut was heavily penetrated by theKGB. Sentenced to four