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ofLight on Moscow(1939) andMust the War Spread?(1940). He

was expelled from the Labour party in 1940, having chaired the noto-

rious Reichstag Fire inquiry, because of his outspoken support for

Stalin during the war in Finland. Pritt acted as a conduit between So-

viet intelligence personnel and spies who had been arrested, includ-

ingWilfred VernonandPercy Glading. He also went to Ottawa to

defend Fred Rose, a Canadian MP and long-term GRU agent who

was arrested after being incriminated as a Soviet spy byIgor Gou-

zenkoin September 1945; Rose served six years’ imprisonment. Pritt

also defended Jomo Kenyatta, leader of the Mau Mau movement at

the beginning of the Kenya Emergency. Among his publications is

Spies and Informers in the Witness Box.

PROCTOR, SIR DENNIS.A Harrovian who graduated from King’s
College, Cambridge, in 1929, Dennis Proctor joined the Ministry of
Health and remained a civil servant until his resignation in 1950 fol-
lowing the suicide of his wife Varda. In 1953 he rejoined the Minis-
try of Transport and Civil Aviation and was appointed permanent
secretary at the Ministry of Power until his retirement in 1965. A
close friend ofAnthony BluntandGuy Burgess, Proctor had been
anApostlewhile at Cambridge and was considered a Soviet spy, al-
though when challenged byPeter Wrightafter his retirement to
France he gave a weak denial, saying only that there would have been
no need to be recruited as he had no secrets from Burgess, leaving
themolehunters certain of his guilt.

PRODUCTION SECTIONS.During World War II theSecret Intelli-
gence Service’s collection of intelligence from individual countries
was channeled through ‘‘P’’ or Production Sections, supervised by a
chief of production. The P Sections were:

• P1, France, led by Major E. S. Keyser


• P1a, North Africa, led by Major L. O. J. Wallerstein


• P1b, Non–Free French, led by Major E. S. Keyser


• P1c, Free French, led by Lieutenant Commander J. E. Gentry


• P2, Iberia, led by Basil Fenwick


• P4, Italy, led by Major E. J. Robertson


• P5, Poland and French Lines, led byWilfred Dunderdale


• P6, Germany, led by Simon Gallienne