WILLIAMS, SINCLAIR• 579WIGG, GEORGE.A soldier from 1919 to 1937 and elected to the
House of Commons in 1940, George Wigg was appointed paymaster-
general in 1964 to monitor the security and intelligence services on
behalf of Prime MinisterHarold Wilson, who was anxious to avoid
the scandals that had bedeviled Harold Macmillan’s administration.
Wigg had joined Richard Crossman to make maximum political cap-
ital out of theProfumoaffair, and together they had pressed for the
independent judicial inquiry that was subsequently conducted by
Lord Denning. Wigg was kept in the post for three years until he
was elevated to the House of Lords and later was arrested for curb-
crawling (solicitation).
WILKINSON, SIR PETER.Educated at Rugby and Corpus Christi
College, Cambridge, Peter Wilkinson was commissioned into the
Royal Fusiliers in 1935. In 1939 he accompanied ColonelColin
Gubbinson a military mission to Poland on behalf ofMI(R). During
the French collapse, he was sent on a mission to Bicarosse Plage,
south of Bordeaux, to rescue General Sikorski and the remnants of
the Polish General Staff. Upon his return to London, he was trans-
ferred toSpecial Operations Executive, where he headed the Polish
Section. In 1943 Wilkinson was dropped into Bosnia to negotiate
with Tito, accompanied by Alfgar Hesketh-Pritchard, who was later
to disappear, presumably killed in an encounter with the Germans.
Wilkinson then led the Czech Section, designated MY, and after the
war joined the Foreign Office, serving in Vienna, Washington, D.C.,
and Bonn. He was appointed ambassador to Vietnam in 1966 and
Austria in 1970.
WILLIAMS, SINCLAIR.Ostensibly appointed a clerk in the Receiv-
er’s Office at Scotland Yard in 1936 at the age of 24, C. L. Sinclair
Williams really worked for a secret unit headed by CommanderHar-
old Kenworthythat managed a wireless intercept station atGrove
Park, Denmark Hill, and became a section ofGovernment Code
and Cipher Schoolin 1939. Williams was assistant to Leslie Lam-
bert and when he died in 1942 Williams replaced him atBletchley
Park. At the end of the war, Williams remained atGCHQ, first at
Eastcote and then at Cheltenham, and in 1954 he was appointed to
liaise with theSecret Intelligence Serviceon the Soviet cable traffic