Diaries and Papers of Guy Liddell: a useful working Glossary Guy Liddell Index 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 As usual I welcome input from other researchers, and suggestions for annotations and corrections. I will also be grateful to researchers who can in the same communal spirit supply high- or low resolution scans of photographs of Guy Liddell or his staff and of the agents referred to in the diaries’ pages, and I will post them to this website as I receive them . [Click to contact me: ]