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Enemies Within

Page 84

by Richard Davenport-Hines


  Character & characteristics: anti-materialism 237, 250; appearance and dress 237, 245, 380; atheism 8–9, 181–2, 380; attraction to Marxism 8–9, 181, 248, 249–50; childhood enthusiasms 180; club memberships 251, 393; compartmentalization of life 310–311; conversationalist 312; drinking 374, 378, 379–80, 381, 458, 491, 514–15; efficiency 310, 380; enjoyment of deceit 184–5, 237; handwriting 311; industriousness 310; intellect and mental agility 310–311, 312; language skills 206, 236; masculinity 237; musical interests 180, 206; phobias 237; rejection of English nationalism 237; relations with colleagues 380; relations with women 175, 374; risk-taking 311; ruthlessness 379; stammer 178–9, 420, 493; vanity 237; wanderlust 206

  Philby, May 178

  Philby, Miranda 308, 492

  Philby, St John 177, 178, 184–5, 308, 494

  Philby: The Spy Who Betrayed a Generation (Sunday Times Insight Team; 1968) 175, 499, 501–2

  Philipps, Wogan (later 2nd Baron Milford) 251–2

  Phillimore, Godfrey Phillimore, 2nd Baron 206

  Phillimore, Claud Phillimore, 4th Baron 206

  Phillips, William 71

  Phipps, Sir Eric 74, 259–61, 427

  Picasso, Pablo 520

  Pieck, Hans 132–6, 141, 143, 144, 145–6, 250

  Pigou, Arthur 518, 535

  Pilsen, Škoda factory 125–6, 148

  Pincher, Chapman 297, 441–2, 452, 465, 499, 508, 528, 540, 541–4; Their Trade is Treachery 532; Too Secret Too Long 541; Traitors 541–2, 543

  Pitt Club (Cambridge University) 531

  Pitt-Rivers, Michael 469–70

  Platts-Mills, John 354, 360

  Plebs, The (magazine) 199, 200

  Poland 9–10, 14; munitions works 11; Nazi invasion 267, 270; Soviet invasion and communist takeover 9, 214, 267, 270, 301, 302–3, 504

  police: spending 55, 56, 84, 85; strikes (1918–19) 54, 84–6, 91; see also City of London Police; Metropolitan Police

  Police Act (1919) 85

  Police Federation 85, 205

  Police Review (magazine) 109

  Political Warfare Executive (PWE) 299, 302, 431

  Pollard, A.F. 215

  Pollard, Graham 154, 215–16, 369

  Pollitt, Harry 93, 112, 152, 156, 157, 162, 204, 294

  Pollock, Peter 326, 463

  Pompidou, Claude 452

  Ponsonby of Shulbrede, Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron 238–9

  Pontecorvo, Bruno 370, 407, 410

  Pool, Phoebe 519, 520

  Pope-Hennessy, James 320, 326, 397, 458, 463

  Popish Plot (1678–9) xxiv, 533

  Poretsky, Elizabeth 22–3, 123, 128

  Port Arthur, battle of (1904) 164

  Port Lympne, Kent 460

  Portland spy ring xxviii, 450, 477, 495

  Portsea, Bertram Falle, 1st Baron 203

  Portsmouth 189; Royal Navy yards 45–6, 160, 483

  Portugal 80, 188, 311, 490

  positive vetting (PV) 46–8, 69, 271, 356, 368, 370–71, 416, 465

  Post Office: Censor’s Office 46; Deciphering Branch 46

  Postan, Sir Michael 75, 203

  Potsdam conference (1945) 300–301

  Powell, Anthony 190, 548–9

  Poyntz, Juliet 307

  Prague 16, 148, 232, 300, 399; Soviet trade mission 125–6

  Pratt, Sir John 411–12

  Pravda (newspaper) 300, 432; forgery 90–91, 110

  Price, Mary 282–3, 284, 365

  Price, Morgan Philips 427

  Priestley, Frank 158–9

  Pritt, Denis 31–2, 204, 360, 423; defence of communist spies 157, 167, 168, 169

  Private Eye (magazine) 526

  Proctor, Sir Dennis 251, 322, 384, 538

  Profumo affair (1963) 454–5

  Pronto Agency (news agency) 241

  Protectorate of England 35, 214, 298

  Proust, Marcel 198, 254, 486

  Prussia 37, 41, 48

  Pryce-Jones, Alan 485–6

  Pujol Garcia, Juan (agent GARBO) 273, 533

  puritanism 183, 208, 214, 218, 396

  Putin, Vladimir 12, 239

  Putlitz, Wolfgang zu 431, 433

  Pyle, Dolly 161

  Quai d’Orsay (French Ministry of Foreign Affairs) 102, 428

  Quebec 340, 530

  Quelch, Thomas 158–9

  Quine, John 450–51

  Quinlan, Brian 142, 143

  racism and condescension to foreigners 24–5, 42, 79–80, 123, 203, 549; see also exceptionalism, English

  Radcliffe, Cyril Radcliffe, 1st Viscount 451–2; Report on Security Procedures in the Public Service (1962) 452–3, 477

  Radek, Karl 12

  Radio Security Service 372, 523

  Radlett, Hertfordshire 450

  Rado, Alexander 374–6

  RAE see Royal Aircraft Establishment

  Rakovsky, Khristian 94

  Ramsay, David 150

  Ramsbotham, Peter (later 3rd Viscount Soulbury) 431

  Raphael, Frederic 529

  rationing and shortages, post-war 353–4, 358, 429

  Rawdon-Smith, Patricia (later Baroness Llewelyn-Davies of Hastoe) 324, 325

  Reade, Arthur 186, 196, 197–8, 219, 275–6, 277

  Reading, Gerald Isaacs, 2nd Marquess of 467

  Reckitt, Eva 94, 163

  Red Army: 25th anniversary celebrations 298–9; wartime atrocities 303–4

  red scares 51–4, 56, 72, 288, 355–6, 361–2, 364–71, 383

  Redesdale, David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron 238

  Redl, Alfred 69

  Reed, Sir Carol 493

  Reed, John 371, 372, 380

  Reed, Ronnie 409; ‘The Disappearance of Burgess and Maclean’ discussion paper 446–7

  Rees, Goronwy: family background and early life 264, 531; character and personal life 264–5, 325–6, 412, 458–9, 462; politics and views 81, 264–5, 473; Fellow of All Souls 264–5, 412, 521; as Soviet informant 264, 265–7, 320, 393, 412; and Burgess and Maclean defections 397, 400–401, 406, 412, 416; placed on watch-list 410; interviewed by security services 412–13; accusations and denunciations made 413, 521, 523, 530; and re-emergence of Burgess and Maclean in Moscow 472–4

  Rees, Margaret 406

  Rees, Richard 264

  Reform Club 251, 291, 292, 382, 384, 397, 414, 528

  refugees: in 19th-century London 36–7; from Nazi Germany 135; Jews and socialists in 1930s Vienna 155, 233

  Reich, Wilhelm 162

  Reif, Ignaty 243

  Reilly, Sir Patrick: Fellow of All Souls 266; as FO SIS liaison 59, 118, 313–14, 357, 389; wartime life in London 325; post-war workload 358–9; vetoes Philby as potential future chief of SIS 381, 503–4; on Maclean’s declining behaviour and appearance 388, 395; and Burgess and Maclean defections 409, 410; views on Philby’s guilt 418; gives evidence to Cadogan committee 464; and Edward Crankshaw 485, 488; Ambassador to Soviet Union 488; and Andrew Boyle’s The Climate of Treason 530

  Reiss, Ignace 22–3, 137, 145, 236

  Relief Committee for Victims of German Fascism 154, 221

  Remarque, Erich Maria, All Quiet on the Western Front 220

  Rendel, Sir George xxvii

  Rendlesham Hall, Suffolk 127, 129

  Rennie, Sir John 506

  Republikanischer Schutzbund (Austrian Republican Defence Association) 232–3

  Reşiţa (armaments conglomerate) 148

  Reuters (press agency) 241

  Revai, Andrew 319

  Reventlow, Count Eduard 428

  Reynolds, John 469–70

  Reynolds, Kitty 86

  Reynolds News 483–4

  Rhineland, Nazi remilitarization (1936) 153

  Rhineland High Commission, Inter-Allied 133

  Rhodes, Peter 153, 212–13, 262, 280, 285, 365, 457

  Rhodes scholars 94, 211–14, 216, 282

  Rhodesia 361

  Ribbentrop, Joachim von 180

  Ribbentrop, Rudolf von 180–81

  Richmond, Surre
y 344

  Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, The Sun Box (Kim Philby’s temporary home) 419, 420

  Ridler, Horace 272

  Ridolfi, Roberto di 34

  Ridsdale, Sir William 313, 320–21, 428, 447, 494

  Riga, SIS station 60, 99

  Riga, treaty of (1921) 9

  Rimington, Dame Stella 65

  Ritchie, Charles 315, 460–61

  Roberts, Sir Frank 3, 332, 434

  Robertson, E.J. ‘Robbie’ 407

  Robertson, J.C. 416–17

  Robertson, Thomas ‘Tar’ 130, 141, 155, 255

  Robertson, Sir William 42

  Roger, Alan 73, 330, 422, 461–2

  Röhm, Ernst 244

  Romania 14, 81, 148; Soviet takeover 302; see also Bucharest

  Romanov dynasty 3, 8, 12; overthrow 7, 8–9, 48

  Rome, British embassy 26–7, 28, 362

  Room 22 see Foreign Office Communications Department, Room 22

  Room 40 see Admiralty, Room 40

  Roosevelt, Eleanor 366, 367–8

  Roosevelt, Franklin Delano 139, 280, 300–301, 335

  Roosevelt, Kermit 396

  Roosevelt Longworth, Alice 318

  ROP see Russian Oil Products Ltd

  Rosenbaum, Erna 392

  Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel 396

  Rossall School 174

  ROSTA (Soviet news agency) 93

  Rothermere, Esmond Harmsworth, 2nd Viscount 462, 471

  Rothschild, Dame Miriam 319, 397

  Rothschild, Teresa ‘Tess’, Baroness (née Mayor) 320, 324, 401

  Rothschild, Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron 271, 274–5, 286–7, 293, 319, 322, 324, 384, 401, 495, 532, 538

  Rothstein, Andrew 93, 98, 163, 164

  Rothstein, Theodore 50–51, 535

  Rouault, Georges 194

  Rowse, A.L. 266

  Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough (RAE) 154, 155–7, 344

  Royal Albert Hall, London: CPGB rally (1920) 52–3, 99; ‘Red Army’ demonstration (1943) 298

  Royal Army Medical Corps 155

  Royal Automobile Club 397

  Royal Commission on the Press (1947–9) 407

  Royal Commission on the Private Manufacture of Armaments (1935–6) 153, 167

  Rublatt, Vera 26

  Rugby School 179

  Ruhleben internment camp 460

  Rumbold, Sir Anthony 393

  Runciman, Sir Steven 222

  Russell, Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl 205, 537

  Russell Cooke, Margaret (later Harker) 89

  Russell Cooke, Sidney ‘Cookie’ 89–90, 105, 111

  Russia To-day (newspaper) 154

  Russia, Tsarist 3, 4–6, 7, 8, 10–11, 12, 39–40; Crimean war (1853–6) 38; see also Soviet Union

  Russian Oil Products Ltd (ROP) 158–9, 167, 288

  Russian Orthodox Church 8

  Russian War Relief (US aid agency) 282

  Rutherford, Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron 203

  Rycroft, Charles 223–4, 256, 383, 478

  Ryle, Gilbert 320

  sabotage, industrial xxvi, xxviii, 32, 143, 158–9, 167, 506; Soviet fears of xxvi, 17, 30, 32, 158

  sabotage and counter-sabotage: Second World War 274, 287, 288, 308, 309, 426, 521; Cold War 506

  Sacco, Nicola 408

  Sackville-West, Edward (later 5th Baron Sackville) 198–9

  St Albans, Osborne Beauclerk, 12th Duke of 80

  St Albans, Charles Beauclerk, 13th Duke of 493–4

  St Anne’s College, Oxford 519

  St Edmund Hall, Oxford 218, 450

  Saint Jacut de la Mer, France 226

  St James’s Club 121, 298

  Saint Malo 399

  Saint Nazaire raid (1942) 384

  St Paul’s School, London 255, 463

  Sakharov, Andrei 350

  Salazar, António de Oliveira 490

  Salisbury, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of 39, 40, 397, 548

  Salter, Sir Arthur 266

  Salzburg Music Festival 479

  Samara (Kuibishev) 401–2

  San Francisco 524

  Sandys, Duncan (later Baron Duncan-Sandys) 442

  Sanlúcar la Mayor, José María Ruiz de Arana y Bauer, Duque de 428

  Sargent, Sir Orme ‘Moley’ 261, 371, 372–3

  Sassoon, Sir Philip 460

  Saudi Arabia 184

  Savage, Percy 45–6

  Savoy Hotel, London 494

  Sax, Saville 350–51

  Sayle, Murray 502

  Schneider-Creusot (armaments company) 11

  schools, and character formation 173–4, 179, 186–7, 188–9, 189–90, 194–5, 254

  Scientific Advisory Committee 327–8

  Scott, Sir Harold 464

  Scott-Hopkins, Sir James 540

  SDECE (French intelligence agency) 399, 401

  Seale, Patrick, Philby: The Long Road to Moscow 184

  Seaman, Don 406

  Sebag Montefiore, Simon 30

  Sebestyen, Victor 5, 10

  Second World War: outbreak 139, 141, 269–70; Nazi invasion of Netherlands 145, 264, 449, 531; fall of France 308, 315; Dunkirk evacuation 288, 291, 298, 315; Italian entry 288, 315; internment of enemy aliens 71, 287, 288, 290, 340, 407; German bombing raids on England 145, 273, 290, 291–2, 294, 324, 325, 333; Nazi invasion of Soviet Union 284, 294–5; Pearl Harbor attack and United States entry 279, 284, 355, 536; Saint Nazaire raid 384; Anglo-Soviet treaty (1942) 275, 295–7, 301, 313; battle of Kursk 328; D-Day landings 324; Yalta and Potsdam conferences 170, 300–301, 302; Soviet victory 301–4, 306; US atomic bombings of Japan 335, 342–3

  Secret Intelligence Service see SIS

  Secret Service Committee 49, 54

  Secret Service Vote 55

  Security Intelligence Middle East see SIME

  Security Service see MI5

  Seditious Meetings Act (1817) 204

  Seitz, Karl 229, 232

  Selfridge’s, London (department store) 298

  Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, nuclear tests 351–2, 370

  Sempill, William Forbes-Sempill, 19th Lord xxviii

  Serbia 7, 206; see also Belgrade; Yugoslavia

  Serpell, Michael 345

  Seven Years’ war (1756–63) 37

  sex discrimination and inequality xxvi, 63–6, 116, 255, 292, 453–4, 547; see also misogyny

  Sexual Offences Act (1967) 511

  Shakespeare, William 524

  Shawcross, Sir Hartley (later Baron Shawcross) 338–9

  Sheffield 150, 298

  shell crisis (1915) 147

  Sheppard, Sir John 218

  Shergold, Bevis 450

  Shergold, Harold 450–51

  Sheridan, Clare 90, 98

  Sheridan, Leslie 308

  Sherriff, R.C., Journey’s End 220

  Shinwell, Emanuel (later Baron Shinwell) 451, 452

  Shipp, Cecil 541

  Shrewsbury School 179

  Shuckburgh, Sir Evelyn 441, 500–501

  Shuster, William, The Strangling of Persia 209

  Sidmouth, Henry Addington, 1st Viscount 36, 204

  Sillitoe, Sir Percy: Chief Constable of Kent 355; Director General of MI5 345, 355, 362, 363, 369, 380, 420, 483; inspection and assessment of security in overseas territories 359, 361; and Burgess and Maclean defections 394–5, 401, 406–8; press attacks on 407–8

  Silver Crescent, The (Trinity Hall magazine) 225

  Silvermaster, Gregory 284–5, 364–5, 457

  Silvermaster, Helen 285, 365

  SIME (Security Intelligence Middle East) 374, 450, 540, 543

  Simkins, Anthony 417

  Simon, Brian 478

  Simon, Jocelyn ‘Jack’ (later Baron Simon of Glaisdale) 219–20

  Simon, Sir John (later 1st Viscount Simon) 133, 238, 243, 265, 266, 410–411, 442

  Simpson, Wallis (later Duchess of Windsor) 169

  Sinclair, Sir Hugh ‘Quex’ 60, 61, 105, 309

  Sinclair, Sir John ‘Sinbad’ 293
, 357, 380–81, 438, 483, 504

  Singapore 361, 540, 543

  Sinn Fein 43

  SIS (Secret Intelligence Service; MI6): origins and formation 43, 44–5, 147; remit 45, 49, 70, 161; size 46; budgets and financing 55, 313; during First World War 46; cuts following Armistice 55–6; officers deployed as ‘passport control officers’ 59–60, 135, 253; formation of Section VI (economic section) 148–9; Guy Burgess works for 253–4, 263, 270, 318–19, 473–4; Second World War operations 263–4, 267, 270, 297, 308, 309, 313–14, 319, 449, 467; rivalry with MI5 287; D-notice press censorship of activities 430, 442; Kim Philby works for 270, 271, 305, 308–314, 318–19, 349, 377, 418–19, 492–3, 503–4; Graham Greene works for 349; John Cairncross works for 328; post-war reorganization 357–8; liaison with American security services 363–4, 377, 380; and VENONA decrypts 377; joint operation with CIA in Albania 378–9, 413, 522; William Marshall works for 434–5; and Burgess and Maclean defections 399, 400, 401, 412, 418; suspicions and investigation of Philby 418–19, 444, 492, 495–6; denigration of service following Burgess and Maclean defections 453–7, 501–4; George Blake works for 448–51; Ordzhonikidze mission and disappearance of ‘Buster’ Crabb 482–3; and Philby’s defection 512; joint MI5 investigation of alleged penetration 516

 

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