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Introduction 1 the Origins and Development of SOE's Security Notes Introduction 1. Mark Wheeler, ‘The SOE Phenomenon’, Journal of Contemporary History, 16(1) (1981), p. 515. 2. Author’s interview with A.A. Fyffe, 05.11.2001. 3. All references are to documents held at The National Archives (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), Kew, unless otherwise stated. HS8/840, D/CE.6 to D/CE, 28.10.42. 4. HS9/23/3, Report by Lt. Turnbull, STS 6, 23.04.43. 5. Imperial War Museum Sound Archive (hereafter IWMSA), Interview with Peter Murray Lee (7493/10), Reel 5. 6. In a desperate attempt to bolster the staff of the code department, Marks sent a memo to the Ministry of Labour. The memo, in which Marks referred to SOE, had been written on ISRB headed notepaper, and was quickly brought to the attention of Boyle and Senter, who confronted Marks: ‘Brandishing my memo as if it were scorching his fingers, he [Senter] informed me that no one in his right mind would make any reference to SOE on a sheet of notepaper headed INTER SERVICES RESEARCH BUREAU, thereby blowing Baker Street’s cover! I’d committed a major breach of security.’ (Leo Marks, Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker’s War, p. 333.) 7. IWMSA Interview with Lee, Reel 5. 8. W.J.M. Mackenzie, The Secret History of SOE, p. 382. 9. KV4/171, Senter to O.A. Harker (JS/3304), 08.05.45. 1 The origins and development of SOE’s Security Section 1. HS8/334, CD to All Sections (CD/OR/513/ADZ), 27.06.41. 2. Denis Rigden, Kill the Fuhrer, p. 102. 3. HS8/336, AD/S to S.O. (F/7406/138/1), 27.02.43. 4. HS8/903, Selborne to Anderson, 08.03.43. 5. J.C. Masterman, The Double-Cross System, p. 101. 6. HS9/196/3, CD to CEO (CD/OR/430), 10.06.41. See also HS8/334, CD to All Sections (CD/OR/513/ADZ), 27.06.41. 7. Imperial War Museum Sound Archive (hereafter IWMSA), Interview with Aonghais Adamson Fyffe (23100/10), Reel 8. 8. M.R.D. Foot, SOE: An Outline History of the Special Operations Executive 1940– 1946,p.59. 218 Notes 219 9. Nigel West, Secret War, p. 129. 10. HS7/31, History: Security Section, p. 1. 11. HS9/1580/9, Papers in Whetmore’s Personnel File. 12. Marks, Between Silk and Cyanide, pp. 89–90. 13. HS9/1244/1, Papers in O’Reilly’s Personnel File. 14. See his Who Was Who entry (1941–1950); Obituary in The Times, Friday, 05.02.43, p. 7. 15. KV4/171, Petrie to Lakin, 23.09.42. 16. HS9/1580/9, AD/P to C.D. Copy to D/CE (ADP/KV/304), 27.11.41. 17. HS9/1580/9, , SIS, to Calthrop, 09.12.44. 18. IWMSA Interview with Lee, Reel 4. 19. IWMSA Interview with Fyffe, Reel 8. 20. See his Who Was Who entry (1961–1970). 21. HS9/1341/9, Papers in Senter’s Personnel File. 22. Obituary in The Times, 18 February 1987. 23. IWMSA Interview with Lee, Reel 6. 24. HS9/1653, Papers in Mott’s Personnel File. 25. Peter Lee, in The Role of the Intelligence Services in the Second World War, Centre for Contemporary British History seminar, 09.11.94. 26. HS7/31, FSP Interim Report, p. 1, citing Whetmore to Under Secretary of State, War Office (ECW/KV/51), 19.12.40. 27. HS7/31, FSP Interim Report, pp. 1–2. 28. HS7/31, FSP Interim Report, p. 3. 29. HS6/961, D/T to All Country Sections, 08.02.41. 30. HS9/23/3, Report by Lt Turnbull, STS 6, 23.04.43. 31. IWMSA Interview with Lee, Reel 3. 32. HS7/31, FSP Interim Report, p. 5. 33. HS9/236/3, Report by C.S.M. Thomas, STS 41, 16.10.43. 34. HS7/31, FSP Interim Report, pp. 3–6. 35. IWMSA Interview with Lee, Reel 3. 36. HS7/31, FSP Interim Report, p. 4. 37. IWMSA Interview with Lee, Reel 3. 38. HS7/31, FSP Interim Report, p. 5. 39. IWMSA Interview with Peter Lee, Reel 5. 40. HS9/69/4, MZ2 to OC STS 6, 04.11.41. 41. HS9/69/4, D/CE 3 to D/Air, 24.12.41. 42. HS9/69/4, D/CE 3 to D/CE, 26.01.42. 43. HS9/69/4, D/CE 1 to M, 24.01.42. 44. HS9/69/4, N to D/R (N/HO/56), 31.01.42. 45. M.R.D. Foot, SOE in the Low Countries, p. 121, citing Schreieder, Das war das Englandspiel (Munich: Walter Stutz, 1950), pp. 124–8. 46. KV4/171, Hambro to Petrie (CH/2823), 28.02.42. 47. KV4/171, Petrie to Hambro (SF.51/30/65/DG), 31.08.42. 48. HS9/1274/3, Papers in Roche’s Personnel File. 49. KV4/171, Hambro to Petrie (CH/2823), 28.08.42. 50. HS7/31, History: Security Section, p. 5. 51. HS7/286, SOE War Diary, August 1942, p. 9. 52. A.A. Fyffe, ‘Group 26 at Aviemore’ (Private paper). 220 Notes 53. HS9/394/5, Papers in Darby’s Personnel File. 54. IWMSA Interview with Fyffe, Reel 8. 55. HS7/31, History: Security Section, p. 15. 56. HS7/31, History: Security Section, pp. 15–16. 57. HS8/840, D/CE.6 to D/CE, 28.10.42. 58. HS7/31, History: Security Section, p. 4. 59. HS9/1034/7, Papers in Miller’s Personnel File; FO371/79558, Cyril T. Miller to Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office, 29.09.49; Conversations between Messrs Senter and Miller and Dr Donker, 05.10.49. 60. HS8/852, D/CE.G to D/CE ONLY (DCEG/KV/30), 21.11.42. 61. KV6/10, ‘Report on Manfriday and Intersection (S.O.E. Blown Transmitters)’, C.P. Harvey, B.1.A., 28.11.42. 62. KV6/10, Robertson to ADB1, DB, 02.12.42. 63. HS8/857, Routine Order No. 320, 15.01.43. 64. HS7/31, History: Security Section, p. 12. 65. HS7/26, SOE War Diary, March 1943, pp. 105–6, citing DCE/OR/2775, 19.03.43. 66. HS7/31, History: Security Section, p. 9. During its existence, the Section conducted some 454 interrogations (until June 1945). FO371/79558, Cyril T. Miller to Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office, 29.09.49. 67. HS7/31, History: Security Section, p. 10. 68. HS8/857, Routine Order 472 (ADE/154), 02.07.43. 69. HS6/430, D/CE/SS to D/CE, 07.08.43. 70. HS2/188, BSS to A/CD (BSS/KV/1189), 27.03.44. 71. HS8/336, Selborne to Cadogan (F/7449/138/1), 05.03.43; HS7/286, SOE War Diary, March 1943, p. 105, citing CD circular to All Directors, Regional and Section Heads, 06.03.43. 72. HS7/31, Security History, p. 14; HS8/336, ‘Re-organisation Intelligence, Security, Personal Services & Liaison Division’, 10.07.43; KV4/171, Boyle to Harker, 17.08.43. 73. HS9/1274/3, Papers in Roche’s Personnel File. 74. HS9/1145/1, Papers in Park’s Personnel File. 75. HS8/857, AD/P to BSS, Copies to D/CE and D/CE.5 (ADP/35/2/757), 11.12.43. 76. HS8/857, AD/P to AD/E (ADP/Q/934), 04.01.44. 77. HS8/857, Extract from Draft Routine Order. 78. HS8/857, AD/E to AD/P (ADE/830), 07.01.44; AD/P to CD through A/CD, Copy to D/CE (ADP/10/7/1047), 14.01.44; AD/P to AD/P.PA, 14.01.44. 79. HS8/336, SOE Routine Order 624, 30.12.43. 80. F.H. Hinsley, British Intelligence in the Second World War (Abridged Edition), p. 442, ft. 1. 81. HS8/874, D/CE to D/H.143 (DCE/5537), 29.06.44. 82. HS8/837, ‘Security of Overlord – Special Operations By Sea’, 10.04.44. 83. HS8/837, Boyle to King-Salter (ARB/132/5130), 11.04.44. 84. HS8/837, A/CD to AD/P (ACD/133/5135), 11.04.44. 85. KV4/76, Minute 56, 09.03.44. 86. HS8/837, A/CD to AD/P (ACD/133/5135), 11.04.44. 87. HS8/837, ‘Security Panel’, attached to A/CD to AD/P (ACD/133/5135), 11.04.44. 88. HS8/837, A/CD to AD/E (Copy to AD/P) (ACD/133/5173), 14.04.44. Notes 221 89. HS8/837, A/CD to AD/P (ACD/132/5165), 14.04.44. 90. HS7/31, History: Security Section, Appendix A: Operation Overlord – The Special Security Panel. 91. HS8/837, ‘Draft Minute of S.O.E. Council Meeting’ attached to AD/P to V/CD (Copies to A/CD, AD/E) (ADP/9/4/1291), 17.04.44. 92. HS8/837, Minutes of Meeting of Special Security Panel, 18 April 1944. 93. HS8/837, Boyle to Findlater Stewart (ARB/132A/5225), 24.04.44. 94. HS8/837, Minutes of Meeting of Special Security Panel, 25.04.44. 95. HS8/837, Boyle to Findlater Stewart (ARB/132A/5257) (Copy AD/P, D/CE), 27.04.44. 96. HS8/837, A/CD to All Members of the Council (ACD/133/5219), 19.04.44. 97. HS8/837, D/CE to Directors and All Section Heads (DCE/5198), 20.04.44. 98. HS8/837, Boyle to Findlater Stewart (ARB/132A/5257) (Copy to AD/P, D/CE), 27.04.44. 99. HS8/837, Boyle to Sir Findlater Stewart (Copy AD/P, D/CE) (ARB/132A/5257), 27.04.44.
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