David Irving: some expansions of abbreviations, and a useful working glossary on names and positions of some of the people cryptically referred to in the Diaries

• Airy, Tim: left Nov 1943 for Mountbatten's HQ, Ceylon
• Allan, Harry (also Harry Allen) wants to keep GHQ Home Forces informed on MI5; went to the Middle East, 1943. Is this Colonel Allan?
• Allan, Philip: private secretary to Sir John Anderson
• Archer, Group Captain Joe: responsible for aircraft factory security
• Archer, Jane: in charge of RO's at Blenheim, sacked for insubordination
• Astor, Hugh: runs DA's (Double Agents)
• B.1A -- controlled deception (e.g. V1 impact points) using double-agents
• B.4c -- working on Soviet espionage
• B.7 -- working on BUF and fascists
• Bedaux, Charles: French-American millionaire, friend of Duke of Windsor
• Bell, Walter
• Blunt, Major Anthony: B.1.b, Soviet agent; joined D Branch June 1940.
• Boddington: possibly to be placed at the head of Marine Sabotage Section, with Burn as assistant.
• Boyle, Archie: of SOE (or Air Ministry, Sept 1940?)
• Brock: made Lt Col in 1942
• Bacon: made Lt Col in 1942
• Brook-Wilkinson: 'B-W'; B-W is also Brooman-White?
• Burt, Chief Inspector (of Scotland Yard)
• Burton, Maurice: of PID
• Butler, Charles
• Butler, Dick
• Cain: Inspector, of Special Branch
• Camp 001: Central Oratory School, London
• Canning: of Scotland Yard
• Caulfield: at NID; also Caulfeild
• Chichaev -- Beria's representative in Soviet embassy, London
• Cheney: of seamen's section
• Clarke, Dudley: controlling strategic deception in Cairo
• Codrington, Will: Assistant S of S, security, re FO; ran FO Security Service
• Cookie: German speaking MI5 interrogator, Hinchley Cooke.
• Cooper, Duff: in charge of the Security Executive
• Cowgill, Captain, later Major Felix: in charge of Section V of SIS
• Creedy, Sir Herbert, of the Security Committee
• Crocker: of the Interrogation Centre, pitchforked into MI5 as Deputy Director in August 1940, attempt to coordinate Intelligence activities.
• Crockett: Major, runs MI9
• Cumming, Malcolm: of MI5; made Lt Col in 1942
• Curry: at Blenheim; research section, writing history of MI5 1908-1946
• Cussen, Major
• Dixon, Major:
• DNI is Commodore Rushbrook?
• DSC -- Sir William Stephenson's directorate
• Ede is Bertram Ede
• Ellis, Dick
• Ferguson is in SIS, was WRC3.
• Fleetwood Husked [liaising with Cossac]
• Forrest, M N, Major: at SIME
• Frost: of MI5, disgruntled, ex-BBC; appointed head of Radio security Committee, July 1940; returned later to BBC
• Gambier-Perry: represents the SIS on the Y-Commitee, etc.
• Garbo: Juan Pujol-Garcia, Double Agent.
• Gash, Capt N: MI14(d) at War Office
• Gibbs, Reggie:
• Gilbert: real name Henri Alfred Dericourt, agent suspected of working for Germans
• Glass, Fridolin: SD representative in Sofia
• Gambier-Perry: 'G-P'
• Göring, Franz, Hauptsturmführer: (also Fritz) Göring of RSHA Amt VI Wi, secretly engaged to Schellenberg's secretary Maria Luise Schienke
• Hale, Jim
• Hampshire, Stuart [not Stewart] -- of RSS; a member of Trevor-Roper's section, an expert on the SD.
• Harker: deputy DG of MI5
• Harris, Tommy: running garbo, deception operations via Eire etc
• Hart, Herbert (and Milmo)
• Haylor, Ronnie
• Herbert, Sir Edwin: head of Censorship, UK
• Hill, Colonel: of Moscow embassy; the SOE man in Moscow
• Hollis, Roger: supervising the Communist block, at MI5
• Holt, Major Herbert: of PWE German Section (in absence of Guy Liddell)
• Horrocks: at Blenheim
• Hyde, Ronald: Tangye's friend on the Evening Standard
• Inglis, F: Air vice marshal, ACAS(I).
• Isosicles: SD traffic decodes
• Janson: of MI5, at Sanctuary Buildings
• Jebb, Gladwyn: FO, Political Intelligence Department.
• Jebson, Johnnie [controlling tricycle]
• John Senter [of SOE]
• Kale, Nicolas de Wild, Anton, Damen, Johannes, -- all involved in the Dutch SOE disaster: see Jan 27, 1945.
• Kellar, Alec (also Alex); A J
• Kendal, Sir Norman: to be sent phone convs re IRA
• Kendrick, Colonel of CSDIC (Apr 1945)
• Kimball: visitor from FBI Washington.
• Knight, Max
• Lennox: of MI5, hankers after Harker's position as Deputy DG
• Lewes: of MI5, at Sanctuary Buildings
• Lewis: Assistant DNI from 1942.
• Lipstick, double-agent agent with known Catalan motives
• Loxley: senior official of the F O [killed in Feb 1945 York airplane crash en route to Yalta]
• LRC [London Reception Centre]
• MacDonald, A M : B.2.C.
• Maffey, Sir John: British ambassador in Dublin
• Maltby: who had taken over RSS (May 1941)
• Marriott, John
• Masterman, JC: "JC," head of double cross operations
• Maxwell: Sir Alexander Maxwell ?
• Maude, John: possibly going to America, port security, MI5 representative in USA?
• McAllister of Camp 020
• Medlam: MI5 [or MI6] chief at Gibraltar, very unpopular there
• Melland, Lt Col Brian: MI14, then (April 1945) Count Intelligence Bureau, Central Control Commission for Germany, Norfolk House.
• Mills, Cyril son of Bertram (circus owner) taken on in B.10 July 1940.
• Milmo, H P: B.1.W
• Muñoz, agent in Gibraltar: Real name is Dominguez
• Neville: at NID
• Noakes, Captain: of WRC.
• Olson, Capt S O, WRC3b
• Orr, Desmond
• Page, Denis: of GC&C; (of RCIS); on RSS committee
• Peake, Osbert:
• Petrie, Sir David: officially appointed DSS, by 1944 head of MI5, Mar 1941
• Philby, Kim: Soviet agent; head of section V of MI6 [?]
• Phipps, John
• Pilcher, Toby: of Fascist section
• Ramsbotham, Peter
• Reid, Ned: investigating bank accounts, frauds on Inland Revenue
• Roberts, Colin: of SIS
• Robertson, TA : TAR, deception unit; moved Dec 12, 1940 from W[ormwod Scrubs?] to B[lenheim];TAR is Lt Col TAR [Robertson] who was made ADB
• RSLO something like regional security liaison officer?
• Senter, John: of SOE
• Sillitoe, Sir Percy, Director General, MI5 1948.
• SIME: Security Intelligence, Middle East, based at GHQ in Fayid.
• Sinclair, Major-general: of JIC
• Sneath: Aiken-Sneath, of Fascist Section, supervising the BUF, Fascists, etc.
• Speir, Rupert
• Stage A -- is evidently end of war in Europe.
• Stephens: Colonel [of Camp 020; Latchmere House prison, Ham, Richmond, South-West London].
• Stopford: went out to the Azores
• Stratton: to work on US port security under Stephenson
• Tangye, Derek: is this Tineye, at Camp 020
• TAR is Lt Col TAR [Robertson] who was made ADB.
• Tate, Harry, is a Danish subject who was doing active work in Denmark for the Nazis before he came to UK
• Thurston, Art: American FBI liaison officer with MI5
• Trevor-Roper, Capt Hugh R: sec'y of joint SIS and MI5 wireless committee formed in May 1941; was W.R.E. in Sept 1945.
• Tricycle, double agent in Lisbon
• Turner, Theo: handling all matters of alien control with govt depts..
• U.35 was in London; was he Caroe?
• Vivian -- Colonel Vivian, Deputy CSS [and DMSS]
• Vivian may be Colonel Vivian Seymer.
• Walsh, Joe:
• Watson, Nigel: of liaison mission to one of Tito's Corps HQs.
• White, Dick: usually Dick White (see Sept 12, 1944, p. 49; later head of SIS).
• Whitefoord, Jock
• Whyte, Jock: head of section at Blenheim
• Wibroe is from the LRC [London Regional Cage], a Dane, naturalized British. LRC dealt primarily with German-occupied territories.
• Young, Courtney (also Courtnay): liaises with FO; Young, Harmer, Day were given to Cowgill for his SI(b) unit

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