284 • KENT, TYLER
After the war Kemp joined an insurance company, but in 1956 he
traveled to Budapest on behalf of theTabletand smuggled three stu-
dents into Austria. Kemp died in November 1939, having written
three volumes of his war memoirs:Mine Were of Trouble,No Colours
or Crest, andThe Thorns of Memory.KENT, TYLER.A 29-year-old cipher clerk based at the U.S. Embassy
in London in May 1940, Tyler Kent had previously served in Mos-
cow. Together withAnna Wolkoff, he was the subject of a lengthy
MI5investigation of theRight Club, a pro-Nazi organization, but
when his flat was searched it was found to contain copies of tele-
grams he had removed from the embassy’s code room. His diplo-
matic immunity was waived and he was sentenced to seven years’
imprisonment. After the war he was deported to the United States,
where he was investigated as a possible Sovietmolewho had been
recruited in Moscow.
KENWORTHY, HAROLD.Commander Kenworthy supervised the
development of Britain’s covert signals intercept capability, first es-
tablishing the Home Office station atGrove Parkin 1923 and later
the huge facility at Ivy Farm, outside Knockholt Pound in Kent. The
latter was known as the Foreign Office Research and Development
Establishment and concentrated on the enemy’s teletype radio traffic
during World War II.
KERBY, HENRY.Born in Russia, Henry Kerby operated for theSe-
cret Intelligence Service(SIS) in Malmo ̈, Sweden, during the early
part of World War II, operating under consular cover, and later was
regarded as a useful agent for the Security Service. InSpyCatcher,
Peter Wrightrecalls an episode in which Kerby was to plant a so-
phisticated listening device in the Soviet embassy in London, con-
cealed in an ornate silver model of the Kremlin, ostensibly a gift from
a member of Parliament to the ambassador. The scheme was dropped
when the proposal was put up to the Foreign Office and vetoed.
Educated at Highgate and on the Continent, Kerby had joined the
army in 1933, aged 19, but left four years later. In 1939 he was on
the staff of the British Legation in Riga with the status of honorary
attache ́, and this was where he came into contact withLeslie Nichol-