MUGGERIDGE, MALCOLM• 381tary, Cornelia Kapp,defectedto the Allies, bringing the case to a
conclusion. Moyzisch had paidcicero£300,000, mainly in counter-
feit Bank of England notes, and was satisfied by the authenticity of
the documents his spy had removed and copied from the ambassa-
dor’s safe. When the war ended, Moyzisch was on a neutral ship re-
turning home. He was interrogated in England and again in Germany
and released. He is now an export manager in a textile business near
Innsbruck.MP. Special Operations Executive(SOE) symbol for the Polish coun-
try section headed byHarold Perkins. Originally founded in late
1940 byBickham Sweet-Escott, the Poles were well organized and
had established networks in Polish communities across Europe,
which led to a separate SOE section for Polish minorities, designated
EU/P, to liaise with them. By January 1944, direct contact with Po-
land had been made from Brindisi, where 1586 Flight was based,
with another forward position attormentin Latiano, a component
of Henry Threlfall’sForce 139.
MUGGERIDGE, MALCOLM.Always a controversial figure who re-
sponded to any challenge, Malcolm Muggeridge volunteered for mil-
itary service after an officer accused one of his more satirical articles
in theDaily Telegraphof being a bluff. Muggeridge soon found him-
self assigned to the Field Security Police wing of the Corps of Mili-
tary Police at Mytchett, near Aldershot, on the basis of his rather
rudimentary grasp of the French language. Although his knowledge
of French was slim, he did have wide overseas experience, having
taught in India and Egypt and spent a year as theManchester Guard-
ian’s Moscow correspondent. Muggeridge’s Field Security Section
was attached to GHQ Home Forces, where to his embarrassment he
was given the task of monitoring the movements of the chief of the
Imperial General Staff, Field MarshalEdmund Ironside, whom the
journalist judged to be a Fascist sympathizer. He was also required
to attend the Old Bailey trial ofAnna WolkoffandTyler Kent, the
two suspected enemy agents who had been trapped byMI5’sJoan
Miller.
Muggeridge’s duties in London during the Blitz were not wholly
onerous, and his social life revolved around his wife’s cousin, An-