Lightning Up: The Career of Air Vice-Marshal Alan White CB AFC FRAeS RAF by Alan White

Author:Alan White
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Bisac Code 1: HIS027140: HISTORY / Military / World War II
ISBN: eBook ISBN: 9781783036721
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2009-09-18T16:00:00+00:00

I finally got the wretched task of the disposal of Top Secret files done, bar one file, just as the remaining members of the HQ staff were bailing out of Steamer Point in a planned move to Khormaksar. I couldn’t find the missing file, which had a recorded number but no title. I had been to just about every office in the HQ that I could think might conceivably have had a Secretariat file but drew a blank – until, at the last moment, I thought of bearding the Foreign Office people in their den in the crypt-like basement of the building. There had clearly been a clean out in this previously busy little empire as the normally locked entrance was open and there was only one person in the place when I went in. He was sitting in an almost bare office looking at, of all things a holiday brochure. ‘Do come in, old chap,’ he said, ‘what can I do for you?’ I explained my problem and he shuffled to his feet, and without another word, led me into what I imagine a strong room in a major bank might look like. It was empty other than for one top-secret file – I spotted the familiar scarlet hue immediately – lying on a top shelf. ‘Help yourself,’ he said and retreated back to his chair. Unfortunately for me the file cover was empty, the contents gone. ‘Don’t fuss old chap,’ he said when I remonstrated, ‘the contents were far too sensitive to keep and we destroyed them.’ I recorded the destruction of the ‘file’ and hoped that the papers that it had contained would never turn up where they should not.

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