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The Spies of Winter

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by Sinclair McKay


  Chapter Eleven

  1. Walter Eytan, writing in Codebreakers

  2. As above

  3. Martin Sugarman, ‘Jewish Personnel at Bletchley Park’ which can be found at www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org

  4. An interview with Dr Solomon Kullback – and interviews with his notable peers and contemporaries in American codebreaking – can be read at https://www.nsa.gov/news-features/declassified-documents/oral-history-interviews/

  5. As above

  6. Arthur Levenson interview, available at https://www.nsa.gov/news-features/declassified-documents/oral-history-interviews/

  7. From the Financial Times, 10 July 2015

  Chapter Twelve

  1. National Archives HW50/50

  2. As above

  3. National Archives HW14/1

  4. National Archives HW50/50

  5. As above

  6. As above

  7. As above

  8. As above

  9. As above

  Chapter Thirteen

  1. Life Without Armour by Alan Sillitoe

  2. As quoted in The Cambridge History of the Cold War Volume 1

  3. Chris Barnes, writing for The Woygian, Beaumanor in-house magazine, Winter 1948

  Chapter Fourteen

  1. Hugh Foss, as quoted in The Emperor’s Codes: The Breaking of Japan’s Secret Ciphers by Michael Smith (Biteback, 2010)

  2. As above

  3. Joan Clarke, writing in Codebreakers

  4. As above

  5. As above

  6. Jack Good, writing in Codebreakers

  7. As quoted in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

  8. Chess by C H O’D Alexander (Pitman and Sons, 1937)

  9. As above

  10. As above

  11. Alexander on Chess by C H O’D Alexander (Pitman, 1974)

  12. As above

  13. As above

  14. As above

  15. As above

  16. This tribute can be found on the NSA’s website at www.nsa.gov/news-features/declassified-documents/cryptologic-spectrum/assets/files/in_memoriam.pdf

  Chapter Fifteen

  1. Melita Norwood quoted in The Guardian, September 1999

  2. As quoted in GCHQ – The Uncensored History by Richard J Aldrich

  3. Alexander Kendrick, writing in New Republic, 26 July 1948

  4. As quoted in Intercept: The Secret History of Spies and Computers by Gordon Corera (Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2015)

  Chapter Sixteen

  1. As quoted in The Cambridge History of the Cold War

  2. As above

  3. As above

  4. Michael L Peterson, National Security Agency online archives, at www.nsa.gov/news-features/declassified-documents/cryptologic-quarterly/assets/files/maybe_you_had_to_be_there.pdf

  5. As above

  6. National Archives FO 1093/485

  7. As above

  8. As above

  9. As above

  10. As above

  Chapter Seventeen

  1. ‘The Beginning of Intelligence Analysis in CIA’, which can be found at https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol51no2/the-beginning-of-intelligence-analysis-in-cia.html

  2. Know Your Enemy – How the Joint Intelligence Committee Saw the World by Percy Cradock (John Murray, 2002)

  3. As quoted in The Korean War by Max Hastings (Michael Joseph, 1987)

  4. Brian Hough, quoted in The Guardian, 25 June 2010

  5. What’s It All About? by Michael Caine (Arrow, 1993)

  6. British Intelligence, Strategy and the Cold War 1945–41 edited by Richard J Aldrich (Routledge, 1992)

  7. Espionage, Security and Intelligence in Britain 1945–70 by Richard J Aldrich (Manchester University Press, 1998)

  8. As above

  Chapter Eighteen

  1. From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

  2. As above

  3. As quoted by Andrew Hodges in Alan Turing: The Enigma

  4. As above

  5. As above

  6. As above

  7. As above

  8. As above

  Chapter Nineteen

  1. Edward Said writing in the London Review of Books, 7 May 1998

  2. Tom Nairn, quoted by Perry Anderson in the London Review of Books, 24 April 2008

  Chapter Twenty

  1. GCHQ memo in the National Archives FO 1093/485

  2. Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges

  Chapter Twenty-Two

  1. ‘The Battle of Hastings’, article by Edward Crankshaw, Observer, 10 January 1954

  2. As above

  3. As above

  4. Conel Hugh O’Donel Alexander: A Personal Memoir by Stuart Milner-Barry, which can be found online at www.nsa.gov/news-features/declassified-documents/cryptologic-spectrum/assets/files/cono_hugh.pdf

  5. Alatortsev’s newspaper report, picked up by Sir John Rennie’s department in 1954, can now be found in the National Archives FO 371/111787

  6. As above

  7. Barbara Greenbaum interviewed on Turing by the BBC, 6 June 2014

  8. The Manchester Guardian, 11 June 1954

  9. The Times, 11 June 1954

  Index

  A

  Abbottabad 33–6

  ACE (Automatic Computing Engine) 67–8, 265

  Acheson, Dean 76, 254, 255, 257

  Ackermann, Eric 136

  Adenauer, Konrad 248, 305

  Afghanistan 35, 83, 150

  Aid, Matthew M 308

  Alatortsev, Vladimir 2, 320

  Albania 133, 134, 143, 144

  Aldford House 52

  Aldrich, Richard 37, 53, 77, 122, 201, 202, 208, 228, 244–5, 306, 307

  Alexander, Hugh 1–3, 5, 7, 20, 21, 23, 57, 98, 106, 117, 198, 209, 217, 219–23, 265, 269, 273, 297–8, 301, 314–21, 322, 329

  Allred, Fred 44

  al-Qaeda 33

  Amery, Julian 144

  Anderson, HMS 37, 70, 81, 154–7

  Andrew, Christopher 126

  Anglo-Egyptian Treaty 77

  Anglo-Persian Agreement 277

  Anglo-Persian (-Iranian) Oil Company 277–9

  Arctic 240, 242, 244

  Arlington Hall 26, 30, 93–6, 125, 250

  Ascherson, Neal 90, 92, 203, 204

  atomic bomb 4, 10–11, 23, 78, 178–9, 193

  B-29 aircraft 137–8

  Cold War 75, 94, 95–6

  Cuban Missile Crisis 300

  Hiroshima and Nagasaki 4, 23, 63

  India and Pakistan 153

  Manhattan Project 95–6, 99, 127, 129

  Soviet Union 94, 95–6, 99, 101, 127, 129–30, 145, 225–6, 228, 240, 289

  thorium 150

  Tube Alloys project 128–9, 227

  United Kingdom 138, 246

  United States 138

  Attlee, Clement 28, 45, 55, 72, 78, 81, 146, 147, 151, 165–6, 208, 236, 278, 287

  Malayan Emergency 204

  Aung San 159

  Australia 37, 76–7, 122, 196, 208, 251

  UKUSA alliance 209

  Austria 76, 230–6

  Azerbaijan 32–6

  B

  Balcon, Michael 287

  Balfour Declaration 27, 80, 164

  Balkans 29, 77, 90, 100, 234

  Soviet bloc 134, 143–4, 203

  Baltics 73, 90, 114, 241, 252

  Soviet domination 101

  Warsaw Pact 252

  Banburismus 21, 217

  Baring, Sarah 190

  Barnes, Christopher 109–10, 113, 119, 206–7

  Barnes, Russell 106–7

  Batey, Keith 20, 181

  Batey, Mavis 20, 52, 181, 215

  Battle of the Atlantic 3, 21, 167, 216

  Battle of Cape Matapan 20, 181

  Batty’s Belvedere 87–8, 253

  Bayesian Probability Theory 21

  Bayley, Don 60

  BBC Caversham 145

  Beaum
anor Hall 42–3, 45, 105, 108, 109–13, 119, 183

  Belgium 247

  Bell Laboratories 14

  Beneš, Edouard 92

  Ben-Gurion, David 166

  Benhall 327

  Bennett, Alexander 107

  Bennett, Ralph 121

  Benning, Osla 180, 190

  Bentley, Elizabeth 130

  Berkeley Street 52, 169

  Berlin

  1953 uprising 309–10

  air lift 137–9

  black market 137

  Blockade 134–42, 203, 248, 252

  Congress For Cultural Freedom 256–7

  Marshall Plan 134

  post-war division 30, 132–45, 248, 305

  tunnel 236, 305–6, 308

  Wall 30, 248, 305

  Beurton, Ursula 131

  Bevin, Ernest 28, 51, 78, 137–8, 140, 146, 165, 166, 245–6, 254, 293

  Bin Laden, Osama 33

  biological weapons 240

  Birch, Frank 32, 57, 69–71, 329

  Bismarck battleship 39

  Blake, George 226, 307

  Bletchley Park 3, 4, 5–7, 9–22, 37, 42–3, 120–1, 123, 162, 178

  Alexander 219

  American codebreakers 21–3

  the Baby 216

  Banburismus 21, 217

  Bletchley Park players 12, 17–18, 27, 69

  bombe machines 13, 18, 19, 21, 23–5, 48, 69, 186, 216

  Clarke 215–19

  closure 20, 23–4, 27, 47, 52

  Colossus 14, 56, 60, 64–5, 186, 264

  compartmentalisation 49

  computer technology 19

  The Cottage 216

  database 167, 189, 259

  Denniston 14, 16, 18, 69–70, 116, 214

  Enigma codes 20, 21, 30, 49, 69, 181

  female codebreakers 20–2

  Foss 211–19

  funding 191–2

  Hut 6 22, 24, 197, 212

  Hut 8 21, 22–3, 69, 216–17, 219

  legacy 8, 10–11

  listening stations 26, 31–7

  mental breakdowns 183

  out-stations 37–8, 39, 48

  photography and copying equipment 188

  post-war secrecy 30

  proto-computers 13, 24, 48

  recruitment 179–84, 215

  Sixta 22

  time-and-motion techniques 193

  Travis 7, 11, 17–19, 22, 24–5, 26, 45–6, 64, 70, 75, 121

  Typex 118, 182, 192, 193, 195, 200–1

  US collaboration 19, 22–3, 70, 116

  VE Day 9, 11–13, 18, 21

  working conditions 49–50, 194

  Y-Service 26, 37–8, 75–6, 183–4, 185–6

  Blunt, Anthony 4, 128

  Bodsworth, William 53–4, 119, 120

  bombe machines 13, 18, 19, 21, 23–5, 38, 48–9, 55–6, 69, 186, 216, 267

  Bonsall, Arthur 39, 57, 288

  Born, Max 128

  Bosnia 143

  Botvinnik, Mikhail 220, 222

  Boulting Brothers

  I’m All Right Jack 304

  Bourbon 116, 162–3

  brainwashing 258

  Braithwaite, Rodric 234

  Brecht, Bertolt 304–5

  British Tabulating Machine Co 186

  Bronstein, David 2, 314–20

  BRUSA (Britain–United States of America) agreement 70

  Budd, Peter 149

  Bulgaria 134, 143

  Bundy, Captain William 22, 170, 198

  Burgess, Guy 4, 96, 99, 128, 316

  Burma 158–60, 239

  C

  Cabell, General Charles 123–4

  Caccia, Harold 233

  Caine, Sir Michael 261

  Cairncross, John 4, 128, 129

  Cambridge Spies 96, 128, 236, 251, 279

  Campaigne, Howard H 117–18

  Campbell, Duncan 105

  Canada 36, 37, 77, 122, 196, 208–9

  NATO 247

  UKUSA alliance 209

  Cane, John 57

  Carling, Kenneth 110–11, 112, 113

  Caviar 116

  Ceylon 12, 23, 28, 76, 86, 123, 154–8, 196–7

  Far East Combined Bureau 185, 208

  HMS Anderson cypher base 37, 70, 81–2, 154–7

  independence 156–7

  Chalfont St Giles 57

  Chambers, Whittaker 127

  Cheadle, RAF 39, 113–14

  chemical weapons 240

  Chiang Kai-shek 253

  Chicksands Priory 38–40, 42–3, 105

  European Signals Centre 40

  China 86–7, 126, 240, 253–4

  civil war 253

  communist revolution 253–6

  North Korea 254–61

  Churchhouse, RF 106, 107

  Churchill, Winston 3, 10, 16–17, 19, 28, 72, 153, 159, 172, 274, 278, 287, 308, 311–12

  Anglo-American alliance 74

  ‘iron curtain’ speech 73

  CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) 202, 256, 275, 312

  Egypt 282–3

  Iran 279–80

  Tito 143

  civil matters 10

  Clarke, Joan 20–2, 52–3, 57, 180–1, 209–10, 215–19, 223, 269, 288, 298–300, 329

  Clayton, Aileen 79

  Cochino submarine 245

  Cohen, Michael 169–70

  Cold War 5, 7–8, 73–7

  atomic bomb 75, 94, 95–6, 99, 225–6, 228, 246

  Berlin Blockade 134–42, 248, 252

  computer technology 266

  double agents 4, 31, 88, 89, 90, 92–9, 127–31, 144, 190, 226–8

  economic roots 140

  European Signals Centre 40

  iron curtain 73, 303

  ‘Long Telegram’ 74, 234

  NATO 140, 245–7, 252

  north tier countries 161

  oil supply 279–80

  US objective in Eastern Europe 143–4

  Venona Project 93–8, 126–7, 130–1, 144, 190, 208, 225–6, 229, 273

  Coleridge 117

  Colossus 14, 56, 60, 64–5, 186, 264

  Comber, Leon 206

  Cominform 142

  Comintern 190

  communism

  Aegean 283

  China 253–6

  Cold War 73–5, 208, 234–5

  Cominform 142

  Comintern 190

  Cyprus 285

  domino theory 256, 279

  Greek civil war 74, 80, 144, 206, 235

  iron curtain 73–4, 303

  McCarthyism 246–7

  Malayan Emergency 204–6

  North Korea 254–60

  post-war Europe 100–3

  Soviet bloc 73, 77, 99

  Soviet sympathisers 42

  Truman Doctrine 235

  United Kingdom 304

  Compton Bassett 110

  computer technology 19, 57, 60, 64–70, 103, 124, 183, 264–73, 321–2

  Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) 67–8, 265

  Bletchley Park 13, 14, 24, 48

  centralisation 177–8

  Cold War 266

  Colossus 14, 56, 60, 64–5, 186, 264

  cost 186–7

  ERNIE 65

  GCHQ 177, 262–3

  Manchester Mark One 66, 265–73, 322

  Nazi advances 61

  United States 14, 187

  US intelligence partnership 187

  Congress For Cultural Freedom 256–7

  Cooper, Joshua 75, 94, 100, 313

  Coral cypher 23

  Corera, Gordon 118, 233, 234

  Cradock, Sir Percy 255

  Crankshaw, Edward 10, 315–19

  Cripps, Sir Stafford 149

  Croatia 143

  cryptology 3, 6–7

  economical nature 31

  Cuban Missile Crisis 300, 329

  Cunningham, Lord 78

  Curzon, Lord 277

  cybernetics 271

  Cyprus 28, 78–9, 100, 123, 142, 145, 207–8, 282, 283–6

  AKEL 285
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  Ayios Nikolaos 145

  Enosis 285

  Jewish refugees 145, 165

  Czechoslovakia 29, 42, 90, 230, 248–9

  ethnic Germans 91–2

  Soviet domination 101, 134, 140, 142, 203, 252, 302–3, 310

  D

  Darwin, Sir Charles 67, 265

  Daubney, Claude 290, 311–12

  Davies, Peter 172

  Davis, Wilma Zimmerman 125–6

  de Bellaigue, Christopher 276, 279

  de Carteret, Eric 12

  de Grey, Nigel 15–17, 19, 49, 56–7, 76, 94, 98, 103, 160–1, 173, 175, 218–19, 329

  memo on recruitment and equipment 175–98

  Deery, Philip 205

  Delilah 60

  Denham, Hugh 81, 223

  Denmark 247

  Denniston, Alastair 14, 16, 18, 69–70, 116, 169, 214

  Deutschmark 134, 137, 141

  Diplomatic Wireless Service 105, 154

  direction finding 84, 123

  displaced persons 29, 40–1, 55, 90–2

  ethnic German 92

  Jewish 145, 172, 202

  Dollis Hill GPO research team 56, 60, 67, 186–7, 191, 232–3, 238, 301, 306, 308, 309, 310–11

  Dolphin codes 21

  domino theory 256

  Doniach, Nakdimon Shabetai 167

  Dönitz, Admiral Karl 216–17

  double agents 4, 31, 88, 89, 90, 92–9, 127–31, 144, 190, 208, 226–8

  Venona Project 93–8, 126–7, 130–1, 144, 190, 208, 225–6, 229, 273

  double-banking 111

  E

  Eastcote 25, 27, 36, 38, 48–58, 75, 83, 88, 91, 100, 104–8, 111, 119–20, 124, 125, 131, 140, 160–1, 175, 178, 194, 260, 287–8, 289, 326, 327

  Alexander 219–23

  bombe machines 48–9, 55–6, 267

  budgetary limits 249

  Coleridge 117

  Colossus 56, 64–5, 264

  ferrets 243–4

  funding 195, 202–3

  London Signals Intelligence Centre 51

  nearby footpaths 118–19

  photography and copying equipment 188

  security 250–1

  Sigaba codes 201

  Soviet signals traffic 76

  squatter’s movement 54–5

  Travis 52, 56–7, 76, 124, 176, 208, 238, 239

  Tunny 56, 62

  Venona Project 93–8, 126–7, 208, 225–6, 229

  Y-Service 135

  Eastern Europe 29, 30, 140–1

  Berlin Blockade 134–42, 203, 248, 252

  Berlin uprising 309–10

  ferrets 239–44

  Germany 132–45

  Information Research Department 303–4

  iron curtain 73, 303

  Jews 89, 90

  Marshall Aid 133–4, 140

  post-war economy 248–9

  Soviet domination 40–1, 73, 99–101, 131, 132–3, 142–4, 203, 248–9, 302–3

  US objective in 143–4

  Warsaw Pact 252

  economic warfare 248–9

  Eden, Anthony 283

  Egypt 12, 28, 164–5, 281–2

  Anglo-Egyptian Treaty 77

  Combined Bureau Middle East 77–9

 

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