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novel,The Forbidden Territory, that he met Wheatley and became
the basis of hisEunuch of Stamboul. In 1930 he found a job as man-
ager of the Globe Theatre, and for a short time was deputy general
manager to the impresario Charles B. Cochran. During this period he
wrote two plays,It Is the LawandRelease.Kim Philbyrecalled that
while the jolly Hill was in the Soviet Union for SOE, ‘‘a very belated
security check of his conference room revealed a fearsome number
of sources of leakage.’’ After World War II, Hill was appointed the
manager of the Apollinaris mineral water company in Germany, and
for the last 10 years of his life experienced a degree of comfort that
had hitherto eluded him.HILLGARTH, ALAN.The British naval attache ́in Madrid during the
Spanish Civil War and World War II, Commander Hillgarth was re-
puted to communicate directly toWinston Churchilland to have run
his own intelligence organization in Spain.
HINCHLEY-COOKE, EDWARD.Half German, Edward Hinchley-
Cooke spoke the language fluently and in 1915 acted as a stool pi-
geon, mixing with enemy prisoners of war. Later he was lent to Prime
Minister Lloyd George as an interpreter for the Spa Conference. Be-
tween the two world wars, Colonel Hinchley-Cooke became the pub-
lic face of the Security Service, offering evidence on behalf ofMI5
at several criminal trials, among them those of Jessie Jordan, Dr. Her-
mann Goertz, and Walter Simon.
HINDAWI, NEZAR.The arrest of Nezar Hindawi in London in April
1986 following the discovery of a bomb in the luggage of his preg-
nant Irish girlfriend, Ann-Marie Murphy, at Heathrow Airport was
the culmination of a long surveillance operation conducted on the
Syrian embassy in London. A journalist of Palestinian origin with
other members of his family resident in London, Hindawi had a wife
and daughter in Poland. He had given Murphy the bomb shortly be-
fore she was due to board an El Al jumbo jet bound for Tel Aviv but
the three pounds of Semtex were discovered during a security search
of her suitcase. Hindawi was arrested by police the following day at
a hotel in North Kensington, carrying a Syrian passport in the name
of Izzam Shara. The previous day he had been to the Syrian embassy