Historical Dictionary of British Intelligence

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sheer imagination, but it is very likely that BSC did mount some

clandestine surveillance operation to monitor the Japanese who were

so conveniently close at hand. Ivar Bryce, later to writeYou Only

Live Once, worked for BSC during the war and had been present

when Fleming, staying at the St. Regis Hotel, visited the building to

meet BSC’s director,William Stephenson.

BONIFACE.The code name selected for the originalGovernment
Code and Cipher Schooldecrypts of enemy wireless traffic during
World War II. As credibility in the source was undermined by distrust
of theSecret Intelligence Service, the decision was taken to disclose
the true signals intelligence nature of the source to the chiefs of staff
and introduce a new security classification, ‘‘Ultra Secret.’’

BOSLEY, REX.A veteranSecret Intelligence Service(SIS) officer
based in Stockholm and Helsinki, Rex Bosley was in contact with
Sidney Reillyand was the last British officer to see him before Reilly
embarked on his ill-fated final mission back across the Soviet border
in September 1925. According to the declassifiedKGB archives,
Bosley’s office had been penetrated, although there is no evidence to
support the assertion made byAlexander Orlovthat Bosley himself
had been in the pay of the Soviets.
After World War II, Bosley served as the SIS station commander
in Helsinki, Stockholm, and finally Oslo.

BOTHWELL, JOHN.In July 1986 Commander John H. Bothwell, a
59-year-old former U.S. Navy submariner who had left theCentral
Intelligence Agency(CIA) in 1972, was arrested at his home in Bath
and charged with breaches of theOfficial Secrets Act. Bothwell was
accused of having sold naval secrets to Viktor P. Gundarev, who had
defectedto the CIA in Athens following a row with his KGBresi-
dentand was resettled in the United States. Bothwell, who had com-
manded three submarines during his 22-year career, left the U.S.
Navy in 1965 because his first wife had disliked navy life, and after
three years at Langley he had been set up in business in Athens by
the CIA. After retiring from the CIA, Bothwell ran a maritime sup-
plies agency in Athens with contracts to the Soviet merchant fleet. In
1978, having met Anne, a British divorce ́e, he settled in Bath so their