WILSON, HAROLD• 581Kim Philbyrecalls a visit to the secret propaganda center atWoburn
Abbeyaccompanied by Williams, who lunched well and slept for the
entire drive back to London in SIS’s Rolls-Royce.
In 1941 Williams was transferred to the British embassy in Wash-
ington, D.C., but soon afterward, he moved to Hollywood to work as
a scriptwriter. He wrote screenplays for Twentieth Century–Fox and
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for the remainder of the war and published
two further novels,Courier to Marrakech(1945) andSkeleton Out of
the Cupboard(1946), which was released shortly before his death in
November 1946.WILSON, CHARLES.On 1 April 1873 Major Charles Wilson was
appointed head of the War Office’sTopographical and Statistical
Departmentand a separate Intelligence Branch was established as a
branch of the Army Staff. A Royal Engineers officer, Wilson had
surveyed the entire unmarked border between Canada and the United
States and had been sponsored by the philanthropist Miss Burdett
Coutts to conduct the first survey of Jerusalem so the city could be
supplied with water. Initially accommodated in New Street, Wilson
moved his small group of three officers and 10 clerks to Adair House
in St. James’s Square in January 1874. Wilson was responsible for
briefing Captain Redvers Buller before theAshanti Campaignand
played a key role in encouraging a subordinate, Captain A. B. Tul-
loch, to complete a detailed study of foreign intelligence organiza-
tions.
Wilson also collaborated with Captain Collen of the Royal Artil-
lery, who produced a report in 1878 that advocated the creation of an
Intelligence Branch in India, where the army had been disadvantaged
by the Indian Mutiny in spite of the wealth of information available
concerning discontent among the Sepoys. As a consequence, the In-
dian Intelligence Branch was established with three officers, three
draftsmen, and a Persian Moonshee.
WILSON, HAROLD.Prime minister from 1964 to 1970 and again
from 1974 to 1976, and an MP since 1945, Harold Wilson was the
subject of a highly controversial investigation conducted by the Se-
curity Service in response to allegations from a KGBdefectorthat a
Soviet asset had taken control of a European opposition party follow-