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as director of D Branch, and then in September 1963 replaced him
again as deputy director-general when Mitchell took early retirement.
Furnival Jones’s name became known to the public when he gave
evidence to the Franks Committee on theOfficial Secrets Acts, but
he remained silent in his retirement, spent at his home in Sandy, Bed-
fordshire, where he indulged in his passion for bird watching. He
died in 1996, aged 84.–G–G OFFICERS.At the outbreak of World War II theSecret Intelligence
Servicewas divided into ‘‘Y,’’ or headquarters, posts and ‘‘YP,’’ or
Production, representing the overseas stations. The YP organization
was further divided into numbered G Sections: G1, headed by Cap-
tain Taylor, covering the Far East and North and South America; G4,
underLeslie Nicholson, for Aden, Iran, Iraq, and East and West Af-
rica; G5, led by Basil Fenwick, for Spain and Portugal; G7, under
Commander Bill Bremner, for Egypt, Malta, Palestine, and Turkey;
and G8, headed by Frank Giffey, for Sweden, Finland, and the
USSR. Other prewar G officers included Cuthbert Bowlby and
Frank Slocum.
GALLEGOS, ADRIAN.Originally recruited into H Section ofSpe-
cial Operations Executive(SOE), Adrian Gallegos intended to sab-
otage the bridges and railway lines of southern Spain in the event of
a widely predicted Nazi thrust through Catalonia to Gibraltar. That
attack never materialized, and Gallegos was transferred to Algiers
where, as a lieutenant in the naval reserve, he was assigned to a Spe-
cial Forces unit in Sicily. After the island had been liberated, he was
dispatched as an advance party to Capri and began to plan operations
against the mainland, but during his first reconnaissance to the Italian
coast, his fast motorboat struck a mine. Gallegos and the 16 surviv-
ing crew members climbed into three dinghies and were rescued by
the German navy. Gallegos, having spent much of his life in Italy,
pretended to be an Italian, and was accepted as such by the Germans,
who sent him as a prisoner of war to the Regina Coeli prison in
Rome.