Special Counter Intelligence in WW2 Europe. Keith Ellison
- 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...
42 “The Use of ISOS by Section V during the War”, dated 2 May 1946, p 24, HW19/321, NA Kew.
43 “The Use of ISOS by Section V during the War”, dated 2 May 1946, p 23, HW19/321, NA Kew.
44 “Kim Philby”, by Tim Milne, p 138, Biteback Publishing Ltd 2014; this date conflicts with that given by Winks (“Cloak & Gown”, p 288) as 18 January 1945.
45 “Kim Philby”, by Tim Milne, p 71, Biteback Publishing Ltd 2014.
46 “My Silent War”, by Kim Philby, pp 98-101, Panther Books Ltd paperback, 1973.
Chapter 2 - A Force, SIME and ISLD
A FORCE
During WW2 the British developed a system of deception to convince the Axis powers that they were better armed and had more armed forces than they in fact had at their disposal, in order to deter the enemy from attacking. This evolved first in the Middle East in late 1940, where an organization called A Force was used for both tactical and strategic deception. The organization was operational well before the London Controlling Section (LCS) came into existence, and it was mainly because of the success of A Force that the LCS was created. Col Dudley W Clarke arrived to work under Gen Wavell in September 1940, and was given the title “personal intelligence officer (special duties) to the commander in chief”. His role was to formulate deception for General Wavell, but in January 1941 he also became head of MI9 for the Middle East, responsible for helping Allied PoW to escape and obtaining intelligence from them.
A Force officially began on 28 March 1941. Even the unit title was aimed to deceive, intending to hint that an Allied (A)irborne force existed in the Middle East. Over the next several years Clarke was to have a number of colleagues and subordinates whom he had known for many years – his first deputy, Noel Wild; his successor in 1944, Michael Crichton; Col AC Simmonds, A Force’s Deputy Head overseeing MI9 operations, and Oliver Thynne, who joined A Force in 1942. [1]
The staff of A Force needed the means to deliver the main thrust of their lies and stratagems to the enemy. They used physical deception – dummy tanks and trucks, fake tracks, fake formation insignia – to sell the story on the ground, and audio deception - sound trucks broadcasting the sounds of equipment and battle. They also created false radio traffic to give the Germans and Italians more evidence for the existence of these units. At the same time they were asking higher authorities back in London to use their deception channels to sell their part in these deceptions. A channel available both locally and back in London was the use of controlled enemy agents (CEAs) and double agents (DAs) to pass parts of the deception story to the enemy.
SIME and CHEESE
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