systems to ensure he had staff loyal to him and secure communications independent of the main MI6 stations. As he explained in his book (“My Silent War”), he was keen to pick mostly from personnel who were fairly new to the service, but wished to make a career in the world of intelligence post-war. He also selected a few older officers, he said, so that he could allow for new recruits as the older men retired, and give some freedom for promotions within his section – or sections, for according to Philby, he was soon put in charge of both Section V and Section IX. [46] As it was, to some extent, a “buyer’s market”, he was able to pick the cream of the crop of the next generation of intelligence officers who would run the Service. This aspect is mentioned further in Chapter 11.
Footnotes
a) Other members of MI6, such as Hugh Trevor-Roper, were also aware (either directly or indirectly) of Philby’s communist past.
b) Nigel West has also claimed that Brooman-White was transferred before September 1940, as he was supposedly the recruiter of Philby to Section V (“MI6 – British Secret Service Operations 1909-45”, p 134, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1983) This is clearly incorrect, as explained in this chapter.
c) There were, however, other reports of leakages, such at those at the British Embassy in Italy, which had been reported in 1939 and which were later confirmed as true.
d) Benton was a MI6(V) officer based in Madrid, and later in Rome.
Chapter 1 Endnotes
The Mechanisms of Counter Espionage
1 “British Intelligence in the Second World War, Vol 4”, by FH Hinsley and CAG Simkins, p 261, HMSO 1990.
2 The work of Section V is mentioned in “Kim Philby”, by Tim Milne; “A Game of Moles”, by Desmond Bristow with Bill Bristow; by Nigel West in “MI6 - British Secret Service Intelligence Operations 1909-1945”; and in articles “The ISOS Years: Madrid 1941-3”, by Kenneth Benton, and ““The Final Testimony of George Kennedy Young” among others.
3 “Mask of Treachery”, by John Costello, p 415, William Morrow and Company Inc 1988.
4 “Treason in the Blood”, by Anthony Cave Brown, p 238, Houghton Mifflin Co 1994; and “Kim Philby”, Wikipedia entry (as at 2015), Section 1.4, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Philby#cite_ref-LongRoad129_20-0.
5 “The Perfect English Spy”, by Tom Bower, p 52, Mandarin 1996.
6 “Treason in the Blood”, by Anthony Cave Brown, p 238, Houghton Mifflin Co 1994.
7 “The Climate of Treason”, by Andrew Boyle, p 205, Coronet paperback 1980.
8 “Treason in the Blood”, by Anthony Cave Brown, pp 253-254, Houghton Mifflin Co 1994; and “Mask of Treachery”, by John Costello, p 416, William Morrow and Company Inc 1988.
9 “The Secret Servant”, by Anthony Cave Brown, p 321, Sphere Books Ltd (paperback) 1989.
10 “Treason in the Blood”, by Anthony Cave Brown, pp 204, 214, Houghton Mifflin Co 1994.
11 “The Secret Servant”, by Anthony Cave Brown, p 323, Sphere Books Ltd (paperback) 1989.
12 “The Secret Servant”, by Anthony Cave Brown, p 321, Sphere Books Ltd (paperback) 1989.
13 “Mask of Treachery”, by John Costello, p 416, William Morrow and Company Inc 1988.
14 “The Spy with 29 Names”, by Jason Webster, p 29,Chatto & Windus, 2014.
15 “Kim Philby”, by Tim Milne, p 67, Biteback Publishing Ltd 2014.
16 “The Spy with 29 Names”, by Jason Webster, p 29,Chatto &Windus, 2014.
17 “The Deceivers” by Thaddeus Holt, pp 126-127, Scribner 2004.
18 “The Use of ISOS by Section V during the War”, dated 2 May 1946, p 10, HW19/321, NA Kew.
19 “Kim Philby”, by Tim Milne, p 97, Biteback Publishing Ltd 2014.
20 “The Use of ISOS by Section V during the War”, dated 2 May 1946, p 1, HW19/321, NA Kew.
21 “Kim Philby”, by Tim Milne, p 66, Biteback Publishing Ltd 2014.
22 “The Use of ISOS by Section V during the War”, dated 2 May 1946, p 21, HW19/321, NA Kew.
23 “The Climate of Treason”, by Andrew Boyle, p 245, Coronet paperback 1980.
24 “Kim Philby”, by Tim Milne, p 156, Biteback Publishing Ltd 2014.
25 "Kim Philby”, by Tim Milne, pp 66-67, Biteback Publishing Ltd 2014.
26 “MI6 - British Secret Service intelligence Operations 1909-1945”, by Nigel West, p130
Wiedenfeld & Nicolson, London 1983.
27 “MI6 – 50 Years of Special Operations”, by Stephen Dorril, p 11, Fourth Estate Ltd, 2000.
28 “Historical Dictionary of British Intelligence”, by Nigel West, pp 531-533, Scarecrow Press Inc 2014.
29 “The Use of ISOS by Section V during the War”, dated 2 May 1946, p13, HW19/321, NA Kew.
30 “The Perfect English Spy”, by Tom Bower, p 37, Mandarin 1996.
31 “MI6 - British Secret Service intelligence Operations 1909-1945”, by Nigel West, p132, Wiedenfeld & Nicolson, London 1983.
32 “Treason in the Blood”, by Anthony Cave Brown, p 287, Houghton Mifflin Co 1994.
33 “The Climate of Treason”, by Andrew Boyle, p 256, Coronet paperback 1980.
34 “Treason in the Blood”, by Anthony Cave Brown, pp 280-284, Houghton Mifflin Co 1994.
35 “The Spy with 29 Names”, by Jason Webster, pp 37-39, Chatto & Windus, 2014.
36 “The Guy Liddell Diaries, Vol 1: 1939-1942”, by Nigel West, pp 228-229, 238, Routledge 2005.
37 “A Game of Moles”, by Desmond Bristow with Bill Bristow, pp 32-42, Little, Brown and Co, 1993.
38 “Deceiving Hitler”, by Terry Crowdy, pp126-127, Osprey Publishing, 2008.
39 “The ISOS Years: Madrid 1941-3”, by Kenneth Benton, p 408, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 30, No. 3 (Jul., 1995), pp 359-410, Sage Publications, Ltd.
40 “Operation Garbo”, by Juan Pujol with Nigel West, p 82, Pocket Books 1987.
41 “A muse on the tides of history”, by Christopher Hawtree , 9 February 1999, (Guardian obituary), http://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/feb/10/guardi...
