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Contents

Acknowledgments........................................................................................................viiNote on the Translation................................................................................................viiList of Abbreviations..................................................................................................ixIntroduction...........................................................................................................1PART I. Anthony Blunt's MI5 Documents..................................................................................51. The Swedish Naval Attach...........................................................................................52. Japanese Suspects, October 1941.....................................................................................93. Neutral Attachs in London, September 1943..........................................................................114. Diplomatic Missions in London.......................................................................................145. MI5's History.......................................................................................................26PART II. Kim Philby's SIS Documents....................................................................................1046. Colonel Vivian's Briefing, 1943.....................................................................................1047. ISOS, March 1943....................................................................................................1088. Breaking Soviet Ciphers.............................................................................................1119. SIS Sources for Strategic Appreciations.............................................................................11110. C's Directive, September 1944......................................................................................11311. Report from Philby, December 1944..................................................................................11412. Philby's Memo to C, November 1944..................................................................................11513. Section IX Personnel...............................................................................................11614. Commander Dunderdale's SLC, July 1945..............................................................................11815. Memo on Penetrating Russia.........................................................................................12016. Colonel Vivian's Reply to the Memo.................................................................................12917. SIS Symbols, 23 July 1947..........................................................................................13118. SIS Internal Country Codes Used Up to the Second Half of 1946......................................................13219. Report on SIS Reorganisation, July 1945............................................................................13420. Colonel Vivian's Memo, September 1944..............................................................................13821. The XK Problem in SIS, 6 September 1944............................................................................14122. Report on the Mediterranean Inspection, August 1944................................................................14523. Report on the Western Mediterranean Inspection, August 1944........................................................15824. The Structure of SIS...............................................................................................16525. The Reorganisation of SIS..........................................................................................16926. Telegrams from SIS's Moscow Station, July 1942.....................................................................17027. SIS Plans for Anti-Soviet Operations, June 1944....................................................................17328. Blueprint for SIS's Post-War Organisation..........................................................................17529. Symbols of SIS's Senior Personnel..................................................................................18230. SIS's Internal Structure, March 1946...............................................................................183PART III. John Cairncross's Documents..................................................................................18931. Lord Hankey's Inquiry into SIS and MI5, 1940.......................................................................19032. Message from edward, 29 November 1944..............................................................................23333. Philby's Letter to Peter Loxley, September 1944, with the Curry Memorandum on Soviet Espionage.....................23334. Peter Loxley's Letter to Colonel Vivian, November 1944.............................................................248PART IV. NKVD Reports..................................................................................................25035. Confession of the SIS Agent Aleksandr S. Nelidov...................................................................25136. British Deception Schemes, May 1944................................................................................27337. MI5 Surveillance of Foreign Diplomatic Missions....................................................................29838. MI5's Targeting of Foreign Diplomatic Missions in London...........................................................31539. Elena Modrzhinskaya's Report, April 1943...........................................................................31740. Dossier on Harold Gibson, September 1949...........................................................................335Index..................................................................................................................345

Chapter One

Part 1. Introduction

The history of an organisation cannot be correctly understood without a clear picture of its functions and structures: what it does, or is supposed to do, and how it is structured and adapted to carry out the tasks with which it is charged. In the case of the Security Service, which was earlier known as MI5, experience from its establishment in 1909 to the present day demonstrates that although its principal functions were recognized from the outset and have remained unchanged, the internal structure of the organisation has changed frequently. Virtually all these changes have been a result of the need to adapt to changing circumstances. For our purposes it is expedient to begin by looking at certain general principles that define the work of the Security Service and then to examine their application to conditions as they now exist and as they existed in the period under review.

Our aim is to define for future use the experience that has been acquired, the problems that arose, the structure adopted for resolving them, and the degree of success or failure in our day-to-day operations.

Part 2. Functions, or Duties and Powers

ii. General Principles and Their Application to the Security Service

Every arm of government has its defined functions, i.e. powers and duties. If these are not clearly delineated, confusion will inevitably arise, whether internal (i.e. inside the...