210 • GIRAFFE
GIRAFFE. MI5code name for a Czech soldier and member of the
French Foreign Legion, Georges Graf, who was recruited by another
MI5double agent,sweetie. Graf arrived in England with Ivan
Spanehl and sent letters insecret writingto hisAbwehrcontact
until he was posted to the Middle East to serve with the Free French
forces.giraffewas so trusted by the Abwehr that his name and ad-
dress was supplied by his Abwehr controller totricycle.
GLAD, TOR.SeeMOE, JOHN.
GLADING, PERCY.A former employee of theWoolwich Arsenal,
Glading was aCommunist Party of Great Britainactivist and the
party’s former national organizer who was convicted in 1938 of run-
ning a Soviet spy ring. Glading’s arrest came after a lengthy penetra-
tion operation conducted byMI5’sMax Knight, who recruitedOlga
Gray, a young woman whom Glading trusted completely and used
as a courier. Although MI5 succeeded in breaking up Glading’s spy
ring and obtaining three convictions, it failed to catch any of his So-
viet contacts and also overlooked clues to the involvement of Melita
Sirnis andEdith Tudor Hart. After his release from prison, Glading
moved to China, where he died.
GLOVER, SIR GERALD.Gerald Glover’s introduction to intelli-
gence work took place in the Balkans in 1938 when, in the guise of
aking’s messenger, he was dispatched byMI6to Budapest with a
diplomatic bag full of explosives. During the following months he
made three further trips, to Bucharest and Belgrade, but after the fall
of France and a couple of clandestine courier missions to Eire, he
was invited to join the Security Service. The alternative was aSecret
Intelligence Serviceappointment in the Middle East and as this did
not appeal he was posted to the southeast of England in the role of
regional security liaison officer(RSLO). The task ofMI5’s net-
work of 12 RSLOs was to liaise with the local police and military
authorities and represent the Security Service whenever the need
arose. During the invasion summer of 1940, this meant coordinating
thecounterespionageand countersabotage activities of the Home
Guard, chief constable, and senior military commander from a base
in a suburban house in Tunbridge Wells. After 18 months as the