Horse Under Water (26 page)

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Foreign Office Intelligence Unit, part of M.I.6.

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Permanent Secretary of the Treasury: Head of the Treasury and therefore holds the title ‘Head of H.M. Civil Service’.

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Financial Secretary to the Treasury, who deals directly with the Prime Minister and directs the Treasury to implement decisions of the Government.

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‘Friends’: jargon for employees of M.I.5, which is not run by the military (in spite of the title) but by an offshoot of the Home Office.

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C-SICH: Combined Services Information Clearing House. Part of the Ministry of Defence’s Joint Intelligence Agency. It is a funnel through which all British and Commonwealth intelligence matter is sorted, filed, and distributed. The commercial organizations (which have men to steal secrets from their competitors and safeguard their own) furnish a great volume of matter to C-SICH.

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Central Register: a collection of dossiers on two million people including foreigners. Central Register is run by M.I.5.

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Director of Naval Intelligence.

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Construction of the network to ensure that one detected person doesn’t lead to another.

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Places where messages are deposited so that collector and depositor do not come face to face.

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Method of checking network.

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Seat: A Fiat produced in Spain under licence.

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See Appendix 4.

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Assessment Boards judged the claims of Allied ships and aircraft in the matter of U-boat sinkings. They were remarkably accurate.

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Patriotic songs.

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Madrid numbers commence with an ‘M’.

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All jobs requested have R.I. codes and are then given D of C (Difficulty of Completion) code. A low R.I. (i.e. not very important job) will be attended to if it gets a low D of C (i.e. if it’s easy to do). Similarly a high D of C job requires a high R.I. to get it approved for action.

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Rue Valéry: Interpol.

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Code translation: Black: third of most urgent priority signals; Student: agent or employee; Flat: dead or presumed dead; Scissors: violence.

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D (Defence) notice: censorship directive to newspapers on various security matters.

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Home Office Forensic Science Laboratory, Cardiff.

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Red glasses were worn by lookouts to accustom their eyes to night vision before they went on watch.

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German version of Davis Escape Gear.

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See Appendix 1.

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See Appendix 2.

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In 1956 Ivor Butcher had been a Home Office telephone tapper. He overheard some information which he promptly sold to three different embassies. He was fired from his job, but the laugh had been on the Home Office. In a way it was this incident that revived the Strutton Plan in my mind. Now Ivor Butcher lived by hanging around and offering hospitality to foolish people with access to secret, or semi-secret, information.

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Breaking and Entering, i.e. burglar.

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Mets (slang): Metropolitan Police.

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See Appendix 6 for more detail.

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Large numbers (of years in prison).

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Treasury Department, U.S.A., controls Narcotics Bureau and Secret Service. In 1959 in Naples, where she lived with her parents (her father was R.N. attached to NATO), she had been recruited into the department. The endless round of parties she attended made her a useful ear for the Narcotics Bureau.

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See Appendix 5.

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A Portuguese political prison on the equatorial island, Santiago, 300 miles off the coast of Africa.

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These buoys were dropped into the ocean by German ships and planes during World War 2. Every twelve hours they came to the surface and transmitted a radio message. The message was a reading from the meteorological gear inside it. In this way the German met. service prepared forecasts based upon a large number of weather reports without sending ships or aircraft anywhere near.

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P.I.D.E.: Internal Police for the Defence of the State, i.e. Secret Police.

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Sc.Ad.C.: Scientific Adviser to the Cabinet.

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Air Pass: interception radar (air-to-air and air-to-ground).