Britannia and the Bear by Victor Madeira

Author:Victor Madeira [Madeira, Victor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Group Ltd
Published: 2014-05-23T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 1

The Committee

1. Major Ernest Walter Brudenell Gill, Royal Signals, ‘Policy on Organisation for Detection of Illicit Wireless Transmissions in Time of War 1939–45, November 1940’, vol. 2, serial 37A, TNA KV 4/62. See also Brian Austin, ‘EWB Gill–Taking Wireless to War’, The Journal of the Royal Signals Institution 29:2 (2010), 48–56.

2. Graham Goodlad, ‘Ditching the Goat: The Fall of Lloyd George’, Modern History Review 10:4 (1999), 5–8: p. 6.

3. Robert Littell, The Company: A Novel of the CIA (London, 2003), p. 823.

4. Dobb introduced Harold “Kim” Philby to Communism. Andrew and Gordievsky, KGB, p. 151. See also Eric Hobsbawm, ‘Dobb, Maurice Herbert’, ODNB.

5. ‘The Russian Revolution’, 1920, p. 2, DD [lectures] 4, Maurice Dobb (DOBB) manuscripts (MSS), Trinity College Library, Cambridge. This end-of-days view of Bolshevism was the basis of a book by Sir Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood. He wrote of his interest in Russia, his experiences there in 1916–17 as a member (and eventual Head) of the Military Intelligence Liaison Mission in Petrograd (as St Petersburg was renamed in 1914), and his impressions of the Bolsheviks. The Fourth Seal: The End of a Russian Chapter (London, 1930). See also Templewood MSS, Part II (Russia, 1915–24), Cambridge University Library. On the Bolshevik “Red Terror”, see Arno Mayer, The Furies: Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolutions (Princeton, NJ, 2000), ch. 8.

6. A. J. P. Taylor, English History, 1914–45, The Oxford History of England, ed. Sir George Clark (Oxford, 2001), p. 94.

7. The best work is Gerald Reynolds and Anthony Judge, The Night the Police Went on Strike (London, 1968), but see also Arthur Sellwood, Police Strike, 1919 (London, 1978) and Joseph King, The Development of Modern Police History in the United Kingdom and the United States, Criminology Studies (Lewiston, NY, 2004).

8. See Andrew, Her Majesty, ch. 7; Victor Madeira, ‘“No Wishful Thinking Allowed”: Secret Service Committee and Intelligence Reform in Great Britain, 1919–23’, Intelligence and National Security (INS) 18:1 (2003), 1–20; Jeffery, MI6, chs 5–7; Smith, Six, ch. 16.

9. See Nicholas Hiley, ‘Counter-Espionage and Security in Great Britain during the First World War’, English Historical Review 101:400 (1986), 635–70; Bernard Porter, Plots and Paranoia: A History of Political Espionage in Britain, 1780–1988 (London, 1989); idem, The Origins. The designation “MI5” first appeared in January 1916. Hiley, ‘Counter’, p. 664. On MI5’s origins, see Andrew, Her Majesty, ch. 2; idem, The Defence, pp. 113–38; Andrew Cook, M: MI5’s First Spymaster (Stroud, 2004), chs 9–10; John Curry, The Security Service, 1908–45: The Official History (Kew, 1999), pp. 63–9; Hinsley and Simkins, Security, pp. 4–17; Smith, The Spying, ch. 5.

10. The designation “SIS” first appeared in February 1920 and became official in 1921. Despite the division of labour between the Home and Foreign Sections of the Secret Service Bureau set up in 1909, MI1(c) operated domestically. Jeffery, MI6, p. 162, ch. 7; Bennett, Churchill, chs 3–6; Judd, The Quest, chs 3–5.

11. Thurlow, The Secret, p. 49; Hinsley and Simkins, Security, p. 9; Hiley, ‘Counter’, p. 667.

12. Cabinet cut MI5

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