Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-06619-8 - Intelligence and the War against Japan: Britain, America and the Politics of Secret Service Richard J. Aldrich Index More information Index Abbotabad, 251 Anglo-Japanese intelligence Abwehr co-operation, 106 decrypts, 143, 215, 242 Anglo-Thai Treaty, 324 in Britain, 49 Annam, 345 Acheson, Dean, 136, 323 Anson, Wilfred, 129 Adams, Alec, 195, 320–1 Anstey, Brigadier Sir John, 316 Adul, Luang, 195 Anti-Fascist Organisations (AFOs), 201, aerial reconnaissance, 50 336 Afghanistan, 151, 157, 165, 217, 265 Anti-Japanese United Front (AJUF), agent recruitment, 184–5, 219–20 190, 229, 330–4 Agnew, Lt Colonel, 367 archives, 214, 385 Air and Ground Forces Resources and Arlington Hall, 235, 248 Technical Staff (AGFRTS), 273 Armstrong Vickers Ltd, 31 Air Ground Aid Service (AGAS), 273, Asiatic Petroleum Ltd, 31 343, 360 Assam, 101 Atlantic Charter, 111 air intelligence, weakness of, 23, 31, 36 atomic bomb, xv, 307, 318 Airy, Lt Colonel E. A., 192 atomic intelligence, 317 Allied Forces headquarters (AFHQ), attack indicators, 49–51, 65–7 141 Attlee, Clement, 121, 178, 323–4 Allied Land Forces Para-Military Aung Sang, General, 199, 335 Operations (ALFPMO), 316, Australia, 89, 193 328–9, 352–3, 355 and ‘American imperialism’, 380–1 Amanullah, King of Afghanistan, 165 Australian Security Intelligence American–British–Dutch–Australian Organisation, 70 Command (ABDA), 156–7, 236, Axis intelligence co-operation, 46–7 241 Axis Planning Section, 53, 90 Amery, Julian, 288 Axis, surrender, xiv Amery, Leo, 158, 172, 199, hopes for modus vivendi, 177 Ba Maw, 167 Thailand annexation, 120–1 Baghdad, 250 Ananda Mahidol, King, 328 Balankura, Chamkad, 294–6 Anderson, sigint centre, 244–8 Balkans, 59, 98, 187, 193, 213, 302 Anderson, Sir John, 93 Banque d’Indochine, 346 Andrew, Findlay, 283 Bao Dai, 313 Anglo-American intelligence Barker, Group Captain James, 362 co-operation, origins, 34, 38, 77–8, Baroda House, 217 92 Barrackpore, 211, 220–3, 253 Anglo-American relations, 5, 70, 382 Barrett, Colonel, 270 Anglo-Dutch Plantations Ltd, 7 Batavia, 354–6 Anglo-French staff talks, 1939, 44 Battle of Midway, xiv, 78, 237, 240 Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 47 Battle of the Java Sea, 64 484 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-06619-8 - Intelligence and the War against Japan: Britain, America and the Politics of Secret Service Richard J. Aldrich Index More information Index 485 Battle of Savo Island, 64 Bracken, Brendan, 109 beach intelligence, 247 Breckinridge Long, on Donovan, 13 Beaton, Cecil, MOI photographer, Brewer, Susan, 100 287 bribery, 165, 361–2 Beaulieu, SOE training, 101 Bridges, Sir Edward, 194 Beaumont-Nesbitt, Major, 354 Britain–USA Agreement (BRUSA), beauty parlours, for espionage, 154 235, 241–4, 248, 255 Beddington, Brigadier E. H. L., 144, British Army Aid Group (BAAG), 224–5, 288 286–7, 358–62, 371 Beesly, Patrick, 70 British Council, 29 ‘Belconnen’, 241 British Empire, restoration, 5 Belvedere House, 217 British Joint Staff Mission (BJSM), 211 Bennett, John Sterndale, Indochina, 8, British Joint Staff Mission in 324, 326 Washington, 144 Berkeley Street (Diplomatic Section of British Pacific Fleet, 156 GC&CS), 76, 85 British Security Co-ordination (BSCO), Berle, Adolf, 101–2, 136, 290 95–103, 127–30 Bernard, Harry, 292 compared with India, 153 Best, Antony, 61, 75, 82 Phillips report, 149–50 ‘betrayal’ at Pearl Harbor, 19, 69–91 PWE element, 140 Bevin, Ernest, 129, 318, 356 broadcasts, effectiveness, 384 Birch, Frank, 238 Brooke, Field Marshal Alan, 85, 186 Birch, Major John, 372 Brooke-Popham, Air Vice-Marshal Sir Bird, Willis R., 314 Robert Birley, Lt Colonel Eric, 432 airbases in French Indochina, 38–9 Bishop, Max, 325 fall of Singapore, 50 Bissell, General 289 Japanese threat, 54–7 ‘BJs’, 75 Japanese capabilities, 61–3 ‘black-bag jobs’, 70 FECB 36 black markets, 286, 371–2 MI5, 40 Blaizot, General, 176, 344 relations with SOE, 104, 110 Blamey, General, 354 SIS, 37–8 Blandy, Air Commodore, 366 value of sigint, 51 Bletchley Park Brooker, Bill, 101 growth, 10 Broome, Richard, 105 relations with outstations, 234–58 Brown, W. Norman, 149, 200 and SIS, 215 Browning, Lt General Sir F.A.M. ‘Boy’, Block, Ralph, 147, 152 171 Bluechel, Major, 348 Bruce, Colonel David, 145 Blunda, Colonel, 213 Bulkey, Dwight, 185 Board of Economic Warfare Bureau of Information and Statistics relations with OSS, 13 (BIS), 262, 280 resists integration, 144 Bureau of Ordinance, 64 Bocca Tigris, 281 Burma, 200–5, 279, 334–9 Boer War, 338 Burma Patriotic Front, 311 Bombay–Burmah Trading Corporation Burma Road, 54, 268 Ltd, 320 Burmese National Army (BNA), 201, ‘Bombes’, 77, 241 336–7 Borneo, 53 Burnett, Lt Commander Malcolm, Bose, Resh Behari, 160 238–40, 245 Bose, Subhas Chandra, 162–3, 338, Butler, Neville, 127 350, 371, 458 Butler, R. A., appeaser, 10, 106–7 Bowden-Smith, Brigadier P. G., 222, Butterfield and Swire Ltd, 130 225–9, 366 Buxton, Colonel, 305 Boxer, Major, 280 Byrnes, Jimmy, 318 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-06619-8 - Intelligence and the War against Japan: Britain, America and the Politics of Secret Service Richard J. Aldrich Index More information 486 Index Cabinet Defence Committee, 54 Chang Hung, 190 Cabinet Far Eastern Committee, 130, Chapman, John, 46 194 Chapman, Spencer, 190 Cadogan, Alexander Chappell, Group Captain, air Barbarossa,84 intelligence FECB 36 R. A. Butler, 106–7 Chatterjee, Major General A.C., 350 colonial co-operation, 177 chemical warfare, 217 Cadogan, Alexander (cont.) Cheng Kai-min, General, 349, 351, 366 Japanese, 54 Chennault, General Clare, 204, 208, secret service politics, 10, 144, 281 244, 263, 272 sigint circulation, 79 Cheston, Charles, 306 SIS problems, 11, 93–4 Chettle, Brigadier, 337 V-J Day, xiv Chiang Kai-shek, 105, 367 Calcutta police, 154 anti-Western nationalism, 124 Cal-Texaco Co., 7, 292 with Donovan, 268 Calvert, Major Michael, 281 on Hong Kong, 360 Cambodia, 44, 328 on India, 136, 159 Camp X, 101 with Mountbatten, 171–2, 181 Campbell, Sir Ronald, 148–9 proposes cross-theatre co-ordinating Camranh Bay, 53, 108 committee, 180 Canadian Broadcasting Company, 100 security, 248 Canton, 280 and Stilwell, 204 Captain Ingersoll, US Navy mission to traffic systems, 318 UK, 32 Chiang Mai, 383 carrier operations, 73 Chief Censor, India, 151 carrier pigeons, 182 Chiefs of Staff (British), Indochina, 8 Cartwright, Lt Colonel, 367 Chiefs of Staff, British Casablanca Conference, 124 Malayan resistance, 331 Casey, Richard, 89 hopes in Thailand, 321, 327 Casey, William, 87 on SSU, 327 Cass, Colonel Bill, 347, 351 Chiki training centre, 284–6 Catroux, General George, 108 Chin Peng, 168, 334 Caucasus, 137 China British re-organisation in, 367–9 Cavendish-Bentinck, Victor insecurity of communications, 232, colonial co-operation, 177 248–50 Pearl Harbor, 68, 78, 87–8 operations in, 261–78, 358–74 infiltration of Thailand, 109 China–Burma–India Theater, 5, 171, SIS–SOE relations, 230 183, 198 Cawthorn, Brigadier Walter ‘China hands’, 61 DMI India, 144 China, secret service, 2, 297, in India, counter-subversion, 151–2, 159 155, and Tibet, 290–1 on OSS, 153, 181 China Theater, 1 in Russia, 218 Chinese Army, 61 Cecil, Robert, 315 Chinese Commission, in India 154 Ce´dile, Jean, 345, 347 British espionage against, 155 censorship, 382 Chinese Communists, 261–2, 281–2, Central Bureau, Brisbane, 238, 241, 288, 329–30, 371–4 248 Chinese Intelligence Wing, 152, 279, central government, 9 414 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Chisolm, Don, 369 formation, 95, 309–19, 372–4 Chou En-lai, 263, 289 Thailand, 328 Christison, General, 356 treaty with SIS, 14 Churchill, Winston wish to control intelligence, 72, 81 atomic bomb, 307 Central Intelligence Group, 313, 373 attitude to Menzies, 11 Chang Fa-kwei, 293 on the Balkans, 187 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-06619-8 - Intelligence and the War against Japan: Britain, America and the Politics of Secret Service Richard J. Aldrich Index More information Index 487 Churchill, Winston (cont.) Comilla, 253 on Burma strategy, 202 Comintern archive, capture, 21 creation of SEAC, 171 Comintern, British penetration of, 21 delegation, 4 Anglo-Japanese co-operation against, on Donovan, 1 106–7 dubious circle, 47 commodities, 123 French Indochina, 4, 207, 212–13, communications, OSS–SIS–SOE, 182 301–2 Conferences imperial restoration, 4 Cairo, 181, 169, 301 on India, 4, 134–9, 148–50, 158 Quebec, 8, 171 intelligence and Empire, 2 Potsdam, 257, 307, 345 shaping historical interpretation, 303 San Francisco, 304–5, 310, 344–5 objectives, xiv, xv Teheran, 301 obsession with Middle East, 59 Congress Party of India, 134, 158–9 on Pearl Harbor, 69–91 conspiracy theory, as explanation, 19, secret service control, 315 69–91 on Thailand, 4, 196 Control documents, 141 underestimation of Japan, 59, 63–4, control of secret service, 145 83 Coolidge, Captain Joseph, 348, 372 civil affairs, 6 Coon, Carleton S., 307 Civil Affairs Staff (Burma), confront Cooper, Duff, 61 SOE, 334–7 Cooper, Gary, 164 civil airlines, 308 corporatism, 103, 378–9 Civil Air Transport Co., 315 Corps Le´ger d’Intervention (CLI), 207, civil intelligence, 177 211 Clarke, Ashley, 121 Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 186 Clarke, William F., 28 Coudrais, Commander, 206 clerical staff, security problem, 32 Coughlin, Colonel John G., 140–1, 146, Cliff, Group Captain, 354–5 188, 199, 272, 278, 319, 325, 335 Clive, Nigel, 11 counter-factual history, 78 Clodagh, 174 Counter-Intelligence Combined Board closed documents, xvi (CICB), 370 Cochin China, 345 Counter-Intelligence Corps, 309, 311 Cold War, onset, 303–18 coup of 9 March, 340 Colombo, 236 Cox, Melville, death in Japan, 30 colonial mentality, 2, 20–1 Craigie, Sir Robert, 90, 106 Colonial Office Crane, Robert, 149 ambitions in Thailand, 120–1, 328 Criminal Investigation Department issue of internment for Japanese, 40 (CID), India, 151 on OSS, 363 Cripps Mission, 135, 159 recovery of Hong Kong, 358–62 Cripps, Stafford, 165 on security in Malaya, 32 Crosby, Sir Josiah, 31, 39, 75, 108 working with SOE, 9, 190–2 Crossman, R.