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key, known thereafter asisk. He was working on Sovietone-time
padswhen he died in February 1943.
KORDA, SIR ALEXANDER.A movie producer and head of London
Films, Sir Alexander Korda supplied commercial cover forSecret
Intelligence Servicepersonnel working forClaude Dansey’sZ Or-
ganisation.
KRASIN, LEONID.The head of theSoviet Trade Delegationand
the commissar for foreign trade, Leonid Krasin was also the Soviet
government’s official envoy to the United Kingdom after the Revolu-
tion and was kept under surveillance byMI5. He arrived in London
in May 1920 and undertook not to interfere in British domestic poli-
tics, but his secretary Nikolai Klishko was spotted meeting British
revolutionaries almost immediately. Krasin’s cables to Moscow were
intercepted and read by theGovernment Code and Cipher School,
which revealed that the Soviets were providing a large financial sub-
sidy for theDaily Herald, in breach of Krasin’s promise.
KREIPE, GENERAL KARL-HEINRICH.Recently arrived inCrete
from the Russian front, Major General Kreipe was abducted in aSpe-
cial Operations Executive(SOE) operation undertaken in 1944 by
Patrick Leigh Fermorand another inveterate traveler,W. Stanley
Moss. Their original target had been General Muller, commander of
the 22nd Sevastopol (Bremen) Division, but by the time the SOE
team had flown separately from Tocra and assembled in early April,
Muller had been replaced by Kreipe of the 22nd Panzer Division.
Despite his unpopularity among his brother officers, Kreipe was
promoted to the rank of lieutenant general the day after his capture,
and he spent the rest of the war in PoW camps in Sheffield and Can-
ada before being repatriated to Hannover in 1947. The 13th child of
a pastor, Kreipe resented the teasing he received from his fellow pris-
oners in England and was pleased to be sent to Canada. He also suf-
fered from diabetes, and twice had been treated at Hospital Camp 99
at Shugborough Park in Staffordshire. Kreipe was tormented by his
experience, and when Moss’sIll Met by Moonlightwas published, he
sued successfully in Germany to prevent a German edition on the
grounds that it was defamatory to assert that he had given his word