Enemies Within: Communists, the Cambridge Spies and the Making of Modern Britain. Richard Davenport-Hines

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.

Glossary

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 of his home country
MGB	Ministry for State Security, USSR, 1946–53
MVD	Ministry of Internal Affairs, USSR, 1953–4 (as secret police)
negative vetting	background checks on an individual before offering her or him a government job
NKGB	People’s Commissariat of State Security, February–July 1941 and 1943–6
NKVD	People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (responsible for state security of Soviet Union 1934–February 1941 and July 1941 to 1943)
NUPPO	National Union of Police and Prison Officers, 1913–20
OGPU	Combined State Political Directorate, USSR, 1923–34
OSINT	open source intelligence
OSS	Office of Strategic Services, Washington, 1942–5
PCO	Passport Control Officer: cover for SIS officers in British embassies and legations
positive vetting (PV)	The exhaustive checking of an individual’s background, political affiliations, personal life and character in order to measure their suitability for access to confidential material
principal	Intelligence officer directly responsible for running an agent or asset
protective security	Security to protect personnel, buildings, documents, communications etc. involved in classified material
PUS	Permanent Under Secretary
PWE	Political Warfare Executive, UK
rezident	Chief of a Soviet Russian intelligence station, with supervisory control over subordinate intelligence personnel
rezidentura	Soviet Russian intelligence station
ROP	Russian Oil Products Limited
SIGINT	Intelligence from intercepted foreign signals and communications. Human intervention is needed to turn the raw product into useful intelligence
SIME	Security Intelligence Middle East
SIS	Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), 1909–
SS	Security Service (MI5, under which name it was founded in 1909), 1931–
tradecraft	Acquired techniques of espionage and counterintelligence
vorón	Literally ‘raven’: a male Russian operative used for sexual seduction

Illustration Credits

– Sir Robert Vansittart, head of the Foreign Office. (Popperfoto/Getty Images)

– Cecil L’Estrange Malone, Leninist MP for Leyton East. (Associated Newspapers/REX/Shutterstock)

– Jack Hayes, the MP whose detective agency manned by aggrieved ex-policemen spied for Moscow. (© National Portrait Gallery, London)

– MI5’s

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