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Public Servant, Secret Agent

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by Paul Routledge


  Miami Showband 350, 352

  Milford Haven Conservancy Bill 217

  Milice see Vichy police

  Military College of Science, Shrivenham 209

  Mill Green Park, Ingatestone 21, 37, 126, 191

  Millar, Ronnie 317

  Molotov, Vyacheslav 201

  Molyneaux, James 293

  Monday Club 272, 280

  Montessori School, Beaconsfield 23

  Montgomery of Alamein, Bernard Law, 1st Viscount 143

  Montgomery, Fergus 260

  Moran, Lord 44

  Moriarty, Denis 248

  Morrison, Charles, MP 255

  Morrison, Sarah 255

  Mountbatten, Lord 332

  Murray, Pete 263

  Murray, Father Raymond 340–41, 344

  Murray, Tricia 263

  Myrmidon Club, Oxford 31, 32, 159, 168

  Nasser, Gamal Abdel 216

  National Association for Freedom (NAFF) 16, 279, 280

  National Health Service (NHS) 202, 207

  National Insurance Bill 236–7, 243

  National Insurance (Further Provisions) Bill 233–4, 240

  National Service 196, 225

  NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) 195, 215, 272, 308, 333, 334

  Navy Army and Air Force Bill 212

  Nazism/Nazis 27, 28, 29, 35, 37, 42, 43, 48, 51, 61, 97, 106, 107, 132, 139, 140, 143, 151, 155, 160, 161, 162, 164, 170, 172, 174, 175, 176, 180, 181, 183–6, 189, 230, 232, 237, 240, 356

  Neave, Airey Middleton Sheffield birth (23 January 1916) 19

  appearance 9, 110, 167

  personality 9, 16, 317, 358

  connections with the ‘secret state’ 10, 12, 14, 17

  background 10, 19–22

  education 10, n, 23–6, 29–33, 35–7, 88, 161–2, 359

  in Germany (1933) 10, 26–9, 35

  and the Territorial Army 11, 36, 159, 196, 209–10, 212

  reads for the Bar 37, 126

  first army postings 37–8

  Calais siege (1940) 2, 12, 41–8, 126

  start of his imprisonment 49

  failed escape attempt from Thorn 58–67

  in Colditz 73–91

  escapes from Colditz (1942) 2, 12, 22, 31, 91–102, 141, 309

  and MI9 12–13, 107, 108, 119, 124–56

  reaches Spain 118

  arrives back in Britain 122

  codenames 128

  works in intelligence (TA) 13, 125, 127, 129, 130–56, 205

  called to the Bar 137,191–3

  Nuremberg 2, 37, 73, 161–89, 206, 359

  entry to politics 191–210

  maiden speech 209–10

  ministerial career 14, 216–24

  heart attack 221–4, 357

  business interests 225–6, 233

  on the back benches 225–49

  darkest days politically 236

  role in Thatcher’s victory 2, 8, 16, 257–68, 276, 318, 360

  Shadow North Ireland Secretary 1, 8–9, 10, 12, 17–18, 273–99, 326, 335, 357

  death of (March 1979) 1–2, 7–8, 18, 311–17, 319, 353–5

  obituaries 357–8

  inquest 327–8

  his grave 362

  pursuit of the killers and retribution 319–47

  and Gow’s murder 349

  The Flames of Calais 41–2

  Little Cyclone 134, 213

  Saturday at MI9 152

  They Have Their Exits 14, 21, 95, 213

  Neave, Averil (AN’s sister) 22

  Neave, Digby (AN’s brother) 22

  Neave, Dorothy Middleton (AN’s mother) 19, 22

  Neave, Gertrude Charlotte (AN’s paternal grandmother) 21

  Neave, Julius (AN’s cousin) 20, 21, 37

  Neave, Marigold Elizabeth Cassandra (AN’s daughter) 2, 18, 22, 25, 191, 221, 222, 272, 309, 352

  Neave, Patrick Richard (AN’s son) 2, 191, 221

  Neave, Richard (AN’s uncle) 21

  Neave, Richard (of Dagnam estate, Essex) 20

  Neave, Richard (soap manufacturer) 20

  Neave, Rosamund (AN’s sister) 22, 123

  Neave, Sheffield (Governor of the Bank of England) 20

  Neave, Sheffield Airey (AN’s father) 10, 19, 21, 22–3, 124–5, 134

  Neave, Sheffield Henry Morier (AN’s paternal grandfather) 20–21

  Neave, Viola (AN’s sister) 22

  Neave, William (AN’s son) 2, 191

  Neave family 10, 19–22, 362

  Neave Report 187

  Nelson, Rosemary 347

  Netherlands East Indies Army 87

  Netherlands Home Army 89

  Neurath, Baron Constantin von 176–7, 188

  New Labour 356

  New Palace Yard, Palace of Westminster, London 7

  Newman, Major, Philip 120, 123, 126

  Nicholson, Brigadier Claude 41, 42, 44, 46, 47, 52

  Nijmegen 151, 152, 154

  Nikitchenko, Major-General of Jurisprudence I.T. 183, 188

  North Berkshire constituency 204–9

  Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Bill 277, 292

  Northern Ireland Office 284, 332

  Northolt Conservative Association 200

  Nothomb, Baron Jean-François (‘Franco’) 137, 138

  Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris 147

  Nott, John 265

  Nouveau, Louis (‘Maurice’) 115, 116, 128,131, 132

  Nuremberg: AN’s work 2, 37, 73, 161–89, 197, 206, 359

  O’Clery, Conor 358

  O’Doherty, John 340

  Official IRA 275, 287, 290, 303, 304, 306, 353

  Oflag IVc see Colditz castle

  Oflag IXa, Spangenburg see

  Spangenburg camp

  Oflag Vc, Biberach 108

  O’Hara, Scarlet 79, 89

  Old Vicarage, Ashbury, Oxfordshire 221, 309

  Oldfield, Maurice 17

  Olsen, Mrs Elsie 199

  O’Neill, Eugene: In The Zone 33

  Onslow, Cranley 258

  Operation Barbarossa 64, 184

  Operation Clockwork Orange 17, 287–92

  Operation Dynamo 41, 42, 47

  Operation Gladio 13

  Operation Marathon 142

  Operation Market Garden 12, 151, 152

  Operation Muskateer 216

  Operation Pegasus 151–4

  Operation Ranc 340–41

  Operation Shelburne 141–2, 148

  Operation Sherwood 142–7

  Operation Shoeleather 206

  O’Reilly, Vincent 338

  Orme, Stan 276, 281, 282

  O’Sullivan, Brendan 330, 331

  Oxford Union 33, 35

  Oxford University 2, 10, 29–33, 35–6, 159, 359

  Oxford University Dramatic Society (OUDS) 32

  Paddon, Squadron Leader Brian 90

  Paisley, Reverend Ian 311

  Palestine Liberation Organisation 308

  Papen, Franz von 177, 188

  Parachute Regiment 304

  Paravicini, Madame 103, 107

  Paris, liberation of 145, 148–50

  Parker, Judge John J. 182–3

  Pat line 112, 115, 116, 118, 119, 124, 125, 133

  Patten, Chris 8

  Patton, General George S. 144

  People’s Liberation Army 307

  Perl, Mrs 232

  Perpignan 116

  Pétain, Marshal 149

  Peyton, John 257, 266, 267

  Philby Kim 230

  Phillimore, Colonel Harry (later Lord Justice Phillimore) 165, 166

  Picard, Philip 222

  Pierre (of Annecy) 113–14, 115

  Platt, Chaplain J. Ellison 74, 78, 81, 82, 84, 90, 93

  Playfair, Giles 32

  Plunkett, Michael (‘James McCabe’) 328–32, 340

  Polish Ministry of Education 135

  Polish Resistance 56

  Political Warfare Executive (PWE) 134–5

  Poole, Major 43

  Post Office 227


  Powell, Enoch 18, 218, 235, 313, 332, 333–4; 336, 337, 361

  Prassinos, Mario (‘Solon’) 116

  Prawitz, Oberst 71, 81, 82, 105

  Prevention of Terrorism Act 322, 351

  Price, Dolours 275

  Price, Marion 275

  Price, Norman 242

  Prices and Incomes Bill 237

  Priem, Hauptmann 79, 83, 105

  Prior, James 244, 252, 257–8, 263, 266, 267

  Profumo, John 217, 230

  Protestant Task Force 344

  Provisional IRA 275, 277, 282, 287, 289, 290, 296–7, 298, 303–4, 307, 309–10, 350, 357, 361

  Queen Victoria’s Rifles 41, 45, 46

  Raab, Rudolf 308

  Raeder, Admiral Erich 180, 188

  RAF Tangmere 139

  Raglan, Lord 21

  Rait, Colonel Cecil 137

  Rambouillet 148, 149

  Ramsay 279, 280

  Ramsen, Switzerland 102, 103, 104

  Ranelagh, John 254, 255, 360

  Ravensbrück concentration camp 140, 141, 230

  Red Army 13, 57, 123, 156

  Rees, Merlyn 275–8, 281–4, 286, 288, 294, 318

  Reich Cabinet 169, 188

  Reichsbank 174, 178

  Reid, Mrs Margaret 214

  Reid, Mary 328, 329, 331, 332

  Reid, Captain Patrick 69, 79, 85–92

  Rémy Louis 130–31

  Rennes 142, 144

  Revolutionary Cells 308

  Reynaud, Paul 38, 39

  Ribbentrop, Joachim von 172, 188

  Richards, Francis Brooks 341

  Richards, Commander Michael 327–8

  Riddell, Frederick 232

  Ridley, Nicholas, MP 272, 280

  Rippon, Geoffrey 244

  ‘Robert’ (a contact) 109, 114

  Roberts, Mr 116, 118, 119

  Roberts, Mr, père 116, 118, 119, 121

  Robilliard, Joy 226

  Rodgers, Sir John 265

  Rohrscheidt, Dr Gunther von 185

  Roijen, Herman van 152

  Rommel, Erwin 96

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. 160, 161

  Rosenberg, Alfried 173, 188

  The Myth of the Twentieth Century 173

  Ross McWhirter Foundation 280

  Roth, Andrew 213, 219

  Parliamentary Profiles 224

  Royal Air Force (RAF) 47, 70, 86, 105, 112, 121, 130, 132, 134, 136, 141, 162, 219, 220, 232

  Royal Artillery 120, 191

  Royal Navy 41

  Royal Scots 125

  Royal Tank Regiment 41, 79

  Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) 12, 276, 284, 286, 292, 294, 298, 299; 303; 333; 340; 343

  Special Branch 323, 338

  Royal Victoria Patriotic Asylum for the Orphan Daughters of Soldiers and Sailors killed in the Crimean War (RVPS) 130, 131, 136

  Rundstedt, Field Marshal Gerd von 38

  SA (Stürmabteilung) 27–8, 169, 175, 188

  Sachsenhausen concentration camp 14, 237, 240

  St Hippolyt-du-Fort prison fortress, near Nîmes 112

  St Ronan’s Preparatory School, Worthing, Sussex 23–5, 26, 55

  Saltley Gates, battle at 246, 247

  SAS (Special Air Service) 144, 145, 146, 150, 151, 156, 272, 281–4, 293, 297, 311, 315, 339–43, 345, 352

  Sauckel, Fritz 175, 181, 188

  Savile Enquiry 3, 346

  Savinos, Leoni (‘Timon’) 116, 131

  Savinos, Madame 116, 131

  Scanlon, James 323

  Scanzoni, Dr 172

  Schacht, Dr Hjalmar 178, 181, 188

  Schaffhausen, Switzerland 102, 104–5

  Schirach, Baldur von 173, 188

  Schuman, Robert 201

  Schuman Plan 201

  Science and Technology Bill 233

  Scotland Yard 319, 320, 327, 331

  Scottish National Party 301

  SD (Sicherheitsdienst) 140, 169, 187, 188

  SDLP see Social Democratic Labour Party

  Searchlight magazine 269–70, 273

  Searchlight Regiment 37, 38, 39, 44

  Second Searchlight Battery 51, 55

  Second World War

  siege of Calais 2, 12, 41–9

  AN’s first postings 37–8

  Hitler invades Low Countries and France 38–9

  US involvement 122–3

  Holland liberated 143

  liberation of Paris 145, 148–50

  Allied advance into Belgium 150

  Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) see MI6

  Seidl, Dr Alfred 185

  Self-Help 279

  Seyss-Inquart, Dr Artur 177, 188

  SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force) 150

  Shawcross, Sir Hartley 165, 166, 185, 188

  Shelley, Percy Bysshe: ‘The Mask of Anarchy’ 12

  Shelton, Sir William 258, 261, 263, 264, 266

  Shinwell, Emmanuel, Baron 227, 238

  Siddons, W.H.N. 194

  Silverman, Sydney 215–16, 227

  Simon, Louis 111

  Simon, Madame 111

  Sinclair, Lieutenant Michael 44

  Singapore 123

  Singen 98–101

  Sinn Fein 278, 282, 283, 293, 298, 306, 358

  Skybolt missiles 227, 232

  Sleeman, Colin 31, 32, 33

  Sloane, Geoffrey 332

  Smear! Wilson and the Secret State 272

  Smith, Geoffrey Stewart 273

  Smithers, Peter 230

  Smyth, Reverend Martin 285

  Soames, Christopher 253

  Social Democratic Labour Party (SDLP) 1, 278, 285, 293, 298, 343

  Solley Leslie 193–4, 198

  Somerset, Brigadier the Hon. N.F. 55, 56

  Spandau prison 185, 240, 244

  Spangenburg camp, near Kassel (Oflag IXa) 53–5, 66, 107, 120, 123

  Sparks, Marine 140

  Special Branch 327, 329, 331, 350

  Special Operations Executive (SOE) 11, 13, 112, 131, 140, 271

  Special Services Club 9, 13

  Speer, Albert 176, 188

  Inside the Third Reich 176

  SS 61, 63, 64, 65, 97, 98, 145, 169, 170, 174, 175, 179, 186, 187, 188

  Stalag Luft III 232, 237

  Stalag XXa, Thorn (Torun) 55–9, 64,66–7,71,73,74,218

  Stalin, Joseph 160, 181, 188, 201, 208, 279

  Steel of Aikwood, David, Lord 301

  Stirling, Colonel David 272

  Stonehouse, John 248–9

  Straight, Whitney 130

  Streicher, Julius 172–3, 188

  Suez crisis 216–17, 222

  Surtees, Captain John 53

  Sykes, Sir Christopher 320, 335

  Tame, Chris 279

  Tebbit of Chingford, Norman, Baron 265

  Tempsford aerodrome 140

  Tenth Panzer Division 41, 48

  Territorial Army 11, 13, 36, 37, 159, 196, 209–10, 212, 341

  Terwindt, Beatrice ‘Trix’ (‘Felix’) 140–41

  Thatcher, Denis 257, 260

  Thatcher, Margaret, Baroness 198, 324, 329

  Education Secretary 243, 257, 341

  decision to stand for leader 256–7

  AN’s role in her victory 2, 8, 16, 257–68, 269, 276, 318, 360

  Tory Action network 273

  visits the US with Neave 279

  and NAFF 280

  and Ireland 284, 285–6, 289–90, 293, 298, 333–4, 357

  and AN’s murder 316–17, 325, 345, 349–50, 357

  and Gow’s murder 349–50

  swept into power (1979) 7

  Thesiger, Gerald 191

  Third Army (US) 144–5, 47

  Thomas, Councillor FE. 200

  Thomson, George 237, 241

  Thor missile 220

  Thorn (Torun) (Stalag XXa) 55–9, 64, 66–7, 71, 73, 74, 218

  Thornborough, Company Sergeant Major 58

  Thorneycroft of Dunston, Peter, Lord 24–5, 218


  Thorpe, Jeremy 248

  Thurrock constituency, Essex 193, 194, 196–7, 198

  Tilney, Guinevere 8

  Tilney Sir John 10

  Tivetshall, Norfolk 19

  Tory Action 273

  Toulouse 116–17

  Tracey Lee 299–300

  Trethowan, Ian 326

  Trowbridge, Maurice 255

  Truman, Harry 161, 198

  TSR2 aircraft 220

  Tugendhat, Christopher 335, 337

  Turnly John 340–43

  Ulm 95, 97, 98, 99, 105

  Ulster Defence Association (UDA) 340–44

  Ulster Defence Force (UDF) 352

  Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) 345

  Ulster Special Constabulary (B Specials) 286–7, 303

  Ulster Television 314

  Ulster Unionists 1, 293–4, 297

  United Nations 15, 160, 201, 245

  Commission for the Investigation of War Crime 160

  High Commission for Refugees 14

  USAF (United States Air Force) 141, 219

  van den Heuvel, Captain ‘Vandy’ 87

  van Straubenzee, Sir William 273

  Vassall, John 230

  VE Day 155

  Versailles Treaty 163

  Vichy Armistice Commission 125

  Vichy police 108, 112, 114

  ‘Victor’ (of the British embassy, Geneva) 109

  Villa Huegel, Essen 162, 163, 164

  Volchkov, Colonel Alexander 183

  Wageningen 156

  Walker, Harold 352

  Walker, Patrick Gordon 232

  Walker, Peter 235, 257, 265

  Walker, General Walter 16, 272, 273

  Wallace, Colin 17, 286–93, 297, 350–51

  War Crimes Executive 161, 163, 165, 168

  War Office 36, 41, 42, 47, 123, 125, 128, 130, 137, 140, 141, 155

  Ward, Dame Irene 218, 236

  Wardle, ‘Hank’ 86, 88, 89

  Warsaw 174, 218

  Watkinson, Harold 217

  Watson, Andrew 345

  Wehrmacht 96, 97, 143, 144, 153, 179

  Wehrmacht Group Four 71

  Wells, H.G. 182

  Welsh Guards 138

  West, Harry 286, 301

  West, Rebecca 9–10, 182

  West German-Ireland Solidarity Committee 308

  Western Desert 123

  Westminster Gardens, Marsham Street, London 309, 312, 313, 320, 354

  Westminster Hall 317

  Westminster Hospital, London 8

  Wheeler, Grattan de Courcey 291

  Wheeler-Bennett, Sir John 167

  Whitelaw, William, lst Viscount 253, 260, 263, 266, 267, 278, 285, 304, 326–7

  Wigg, Colonel George 17, 210

  Wilberforce, Lord 246

  Wilhelm II, Kaiser 162

  Wilkinson, Peter 11

  Willey, Harold B. 166–9, 181

  Willing-Denton, E.K. 32

  Wilson, Commander John 329, 331

 

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