Burgess’s dégringolade
PART THREE: Settling the Score
Chapter 16: The Missing Diplomats
‘All agog about the two Missing Diplomats’
‘As if evidence was the test of truth!’
Chapter 17: The Establishment
Chapter 18: The Brotherhood of Perverted Men
Chapter 19: The Exiles
Chapter 20: The Mole Hunts
Colonel Grace-Groundling-Marchpole
Robin Zaehner and Stuart Hampshire
Anthony Blunt and Andrew Boyle
Maurice Oldfield and Chapman Pincher
Picture Section
Notes
Index
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Also by Richard Davenport-Hines
About the Publisher
In MI5 files the symbol @ is used to indicate an alias, and repetitions of @ indicate a variety of aliases or codenames. I have followed this practice in the text.
| Abwehr | German military intelligence, 1920–45 |
| active measures | Black propaganda, dirty tricks |
| agent | Individual who performs intelligence assignments for an intelligence agency without being an officer or staff member of that agency |
| agent of influence | An agent who is able to influence policy decisions |
| ARCOS | All Russian Co-operative Society, London, 1920–7 |
| asset | A source of human intelligence |
| BSA | Birmingham Small Arms Company |
| C | Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service |
| case officer | An officer of an intelligence agency responsible for operating a particular agent or asset |
| Cheka | Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage, USSR, 1917–22 |
| CIA | Central Intelligence Agency, USA, 1947– |
| CID | Committee of Imperial Defence, London, 1902–39 |
| CIGS | Chief of the Imperial General Staff, London, 1909–64 |
| Comintern | Third Communist International, USSR, 1919–43 |
| CPGB | Communist Party of Great Britain, 1920–91 |
| CPUSA | Communist Party of the United States of America, 1921– |
| cut-out | The intermediary communicating secret information between the provider and recipient of illicit information; knowing the source and destination of the transmitted information, but ignorant of the identities of other persons involved in the spying network |
| dead drop | Prearranged location where an agent, asset or case officer may leave material for collection |
| double agent | Agent cooperating with the intelligence service of one nation state while also working for and controlled by the intelligence or security service of another nation state |
| DPP | Directorate of Public Prosecutions, UK |
| DSO | Defence Security Officer, MI5 |
| FBI | Federal Bureau of Investigation, US law enforcement agency, 1908– |
| FCO | Foreign & Commonwealth Office, 1968– |
| FO | Foreign Office |
| Fourth Department | Soviet military intelligence, known as the Fourth Department of the Red Army’s General Staff, 1926–42 |
| Friend | Source |
| GC&CS | Government Code & Cypher School, 1919–46 |
| GCHQ | Government Communications Headquarters, 1946– |
| GPU | State Political Directorate, USSR, 1922–3 |
| GRU | Soviet military intelligence, 1942–92 |
| HUAC | House Un-American Activities Committee, USA, 1938–69 |
| HUMINT | human intelligence |
| illegal | Officer of an intelligence service without any official connection to the nation for whom he is working; usually with false documentation |
| INO | foreign section of Cheka and its successor bodies, USSR, 1920–41 |
| intelligence agent | An outside individual who is used by an intelligence service to supply information or to gain access to a target |
| intelligence officer | A trained individual who is formally employed in the hierarchy of an intelligence agency, whether serving at home or abroad |
| legal | Intelligence officer serving abroad as an official or semi-official representative
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