Historical Dictionary of British Intelligence

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tion, recruitment, and handling ofwatchdog, a German double

agent in Montreal who succeeded in duping hisAbwehrcontrollers

into believing he was still at liberty even after a year of captivity. The

case continued until Cliff Harvison escortedwatchdogto London,

where he was placed in MI5’s custody, and Mills continued to moni-

tor the activities of two other double agents (one of them thenominal

agentmoonbeam) who were sent to replacewatchdog. In Septem-

ber 1945 Mills returned to London to take charge of his family busi-

ness, his secret wartime role undisclosed.

The person to compromise Mills’s postwar role was Peter

Wright, who revealed inSpyCatcherthat, far from retiring in 1945,

Mills had continued to assist MI5 and, in particular, had allowed his

house in Kensington Palace Gardens, which conveniently neighbored

the Soviet embassy, to be a listening and observation post. Indeed, at

the height of the Cold War, a tunnel was dug from his basement,

under the garden, and up to the embassy’s exterior wall so surveil-

lance equipment could be inserted into the building.

MILNE BROTHERS.Tim and Tony Milne, sons of author A. A.
Milne, joined theSecret Intelligence Service(SIS) at the outbreak
of war, and both remained in the organization until thedefectionof
their old school friend from Westminster,Kim Philby, in January

1963. At that point, Tim Milne was head of station in Tokyo and Tony
      was in Rio de Janeiro. Falsely named by Philby as a fellow conspira-
      tor, Tim Milne resigned and subsequently worked as a clerk in the
      House of Commons.
      A journalist before the war, and associated withValentine Vivian
      for 20 years, Tony Milne joined theIntelligence Corpsin 1940 and
      was posted toCairo, where he became involved in intelligence and
      was transferred to theMinistry of Economic Warfareto run the
      propaganda side throughout the Libyan campaign. Accepted into
      SIS’sSection IXin May 1944, he was responsible for the Middle
      East, dealing withiskand all intelligence relating to theNKVDand
      the (supposedly dissolved)Comintern.

MINCEMEAT. MI5code name for adeceptionoperation dreamed up
by Charles Cholmondeley intended to persuade the enemy that the
Allies intended to attack Sardinia and not Sicily in 1943. Initially