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by Max Hastings


  Schulze-Boysen, Libertas, 191–2, 246

  Schumacher, Kurt, 121, 242

  Schütz, Sgt Gunther, 337

  Schwartze (German NCO in North Africa), 453

  Schwartze Kapelle, Die (the Black Orchestra), 193

  Schwarze, Alois, 270

  Scotland, Col. Alexander, 53

  Sculpin (US sbmarine), 507

  Seagrim, Major Hugh, 516

  Seal (British submarine), 66

  Sealion (British submarine), 198

  ‘Sealion’, Operation: postponement, 80, 151, 334

  Second Front: Soviet view of, 363

  Sedlacek, Capain Karel, 56

  Seeburg bomber-plotting table, 418

  Seekt, Gen. Hans von, 128

  Sempill, Rear-Admiral William Francis Forbes-Sempill, 19th Baron, 144

  Semyonov, Semyon (‘Twain’), 373–4, 527–9, 531, 556

  Senter, Cmdr John, 440, 441

  Sergienko, Vasily, 317

  Seth, Josephine, 435–6, 441–3, 445

  Seth, Ronald (‘Blunderhead’), xix, 431–46, 497, 536

  Seubert, Obst. Lt., 469

  Seydlitz-Kurzback, Herat von, 224

  Sezione Prelevamento (Italy), 66

  Sforza, Count Carlo, 307

  Shamli (Turkish informer), 339

  ‘Shark’ submarine key, 88–90, 101, 221

  Shelia, Rudolf, 23

  Sherman, John, 35

  Shigemitsu, Mamoru, 400

  Shijnotsuka, Rorao, 37

  Shirley, Lt. (of Royal Navy), 392

  SHON (Soviet intelligence training school), 123

  Shornyakov, Nikolai, 115

  Short, Gen. Walter, 164

  Shtemenko, Gen. Sergey, 456

  Sicherheitsdienst (SD; German counter-intelligence), 6

  Sicily: Allied invasion (1943), 206, 455, 470

  Siemens & Halske T-52 (teleprinter; ‘Sturgeon’), 411, 413

  ‘Sierra, Vincente’ see Gourevitch, Anatoli Sukolov-

  Sigaba cipher machine (US), 71

  sigint (signals intelligence): defined, xxiiin; limitations, 214; and war at sea, 216; importance to Allies, 403, 548; in Pacific and Asia, 504, 510–12, 519; in Mediterranean, 549

  Signal Corps (USA), 403–4

  Sikorski, Gen. Władysław, 363

  Silvermaster, Nathan, 379–80, 382–3

  Simexco (company), 189–90, 239–40

  Simon, Walter, 334–5

  Sinclair, Admiral Sir Hugh (‘C’), 16, 73

  Sissman, Kathleen, 207

  Skillen, Hugh, 78

  Skorzeny, Otto, 305, 481

  Slack, Alfred, 373

  Slim, Gen. William (‘Bill’), 510, 513

  Smedley, Agnes, 32; China’s Red Army Marches, 142

  SMERSh, 236, 238

  Smith, Ernest, 71n

  Smith, R. Harris, 272

  Smith, Major Truman, 4

  Smuts, Jan Christian, 346

  Snow, C.P., 86

  Snowden, Edward, xviii, 559

  Sokol, Hersch and Myra, 240

  Solborg, Col. (of OSS), 297

  Soldatenko, Aleksandr, 321–2

  Soldatenko, Elena, 322

  Solomon islands, 504

  Sorge, Richard (‘Ika’): xvi, xxiv; career and achievements, 31–9, 302, 351, 548; in Japan, 33–8; and German threat to USSR, 110; on Japanese intentions, 111–12; Nazi suspicion of, 112; and proposed closure of Burma Road, 112; on prospective German–Soviet war, 113, 130; meets Stennes, 122; and German invasion of USSR, 179; and prospective Japanese war against USSR, 179–81, 187; arrested and confesses, 181–2; tried and executed, 182–3; skeleton exhumed and reinterred, 542

  Sorlie, Rolf, 280

  Sosnowski, Col. Stanislas, 176

  South Africa: Nazi sympathisers, 346–7

  South America: OSS in, 184–5, 297

  South Shanxi, Battle of (1941), 141

  Soviet Union: sources in Germany, xxiv, 21, 32, 62; intelligence organisations, 18–19, 39; Japanese threat to border, 38; misuses pre-war intelligence, 39; exploits secret sources in occupied Europe, 54–5; Germany plans invasion, 56, 85, 103, 105, 118–19, 120, 122, 126; German invasion and advance in, 121, 133, 174, 187, 189, 203–4, 223, 483; fear of internal subversion, 123; neutrality pact with Japan, 126, 151; speculations on German strategy, 128–9; Japanese intelligence operations on, 142–3; releases political suspects for intelligence work, 174–5; prospective Japanese war on, 179, 181; limitations in technology and code-breaking, 184; transfers forces from Far East to Western Front, 184; war with Finland (1939–40), 186; German inadequate intelligence on, 224; Gehlen’s analysis of situation, 225–7; deception operations, 228–38, 455–7, 553; secrecy towards Allies, 300; prospective Western relations misjudged, 302; partisans and guerrillas, 305, 314–29, 556; fear Western Allies making secret peace with Germany, 314; German reprisals in, 322–4; information withheld from, 351; British and US informants, 352–3; suspicion of British sympathies, 360; supposed British agents in, 362; receives information from London informants, 363–4; denied access to Ultra, 364, 367; and Japanese Purple decrypts, 367; sponsors espionage in USA, 369; receives US scientific and technological data, 386; provides little information to Western Allies, 392; Japanese estimate of strength, 399; captures German interception unit, 455; Wehrmacht struggles in, 456–7; POWs recruited as informants by Abwehr, 481; plants agents for local spying, 494–5; Japanese preoccupation with, 518–19; explodes atomic bomb, 524, 535; gathers information on US atomic programme, 525–35; technological intelligence operations in USA, 533; agents shot and imprisoned after war, 538; questionable alliance with West, 543; claims to have broken Japanese and German codes, 550; benefits from loyal allies, 553; gift for conspiracy, 556; see also Stalin, Josef; Stalingrad

  ‘Spaak’ Resistance group, 249–50

  Spain: Canaris visits, 63, 65; German espionage operations in, 339; German intelligence restricted, 469

  Spanish Civil War: information on aircraft use, 11; Soviet prestige in, 353

  Special Air Service (SAS), 488–9

  Special Liaison Units (British and US), 394, 502, 508

  Special Operations Executive (SOE): created, 55, 260, 264; coup in Yugoslavia, 106; training and field service, 261, 264–8, 272–3; criticised, 268–9; inter-service rivalries, 269, 395; captured agents interrogated, 270–2; assessed, 272, 279–82, 305; betrayals, 273; in Mediterranean, 278; agents detected by German interceptors, 279; lacks strategic directive, 279; supported by air sorties, 279; empire-building, 395; agents dropped to assist Normandy invasion, 488; in Asia, 509, 514–17; differences with MI6, 509; divides globe with OSS, 516; dissolved, 537; effectiveness, 557; see also Seth, Ronald

  Speer, Albert, 401

  spies: local, line-crossers and ‘stay-behind’, 491–7

  Springhall, Douglas, 349

  Staab, Philip, 493, 527

  Stalin, Josef: on spies, xviii; diffuses power, 6; respect for British intelligence, 8; aims, 18; criticises intelligence services, 20; ruthlessness, 20–1; feared, 39–40, 237; use of intelligence, 39; controlling nature, 65; disbelieves warnings of German invasion, 103, 105–6, 110, 121, 126, 131–2, 547–8; and pact with Nazis, 103–4, 354; suspicion of Churchill, 103–4, 126–7, 206; and agreement with Yugoslavia, 106; on Sorge, 113; and Fitin, 123; believes impending Anglo-German peace, 127; early strategic preparations, 129; Merkulov and Fitin meet, 131; and assassination plan against Hitler, 176–7; and prospective Japanese threat, 179; personal control of military operations, 228; and supposed betrayal of ‘Mars’, 232; accepts loyalty of Orthodox Church, 238; political aims, 299, 349, 386; appeal to Soviet people (July 1941), 316; and Soviet guerrillas, 327; indifference to casualties, 329; demands deaths of enemies, 342; agents spy on Allies, 349; and assassination of Trotsky, 355; hostility to ‘London Poles’, 363; aware of US-British plans, 367; sees Western Allies as ultimate enemy, 368; develops interest in USA, 371; demands new deception plan, 456; creates territorial network for promoting sabotage and inte
lligence-gathering, 494; accepts assistance of Western Allies, 543; paranoia, 553

  Stalingrad, 225–8, 232–3, 399, 455, 538, 547

  Stauffenberg, Claus Schenck von, 313

  Stein, Gunther, 37

  Stein, Karl, 452, 458

  Stennes, Captain Walter Maria, 122

  Stephens, Lt. Twm, 489

  Stephenson, Sir William (‘Little Bill’): liaison function, xxv, 96–7; builds up organisation in USA, 97; relations with Donovan, 97–9; on ageing MI6, 306, 537; Belfrage works for, 379

  Steptoe, Harry, 10

  Stern, Alfred, 375–6

  Stettinius, Edward, 296

  Steveni, Lt. Col. Leo, 509

  Stevens, Major Richard, 44–5, 117

  Steventon, Flt Lt. Donald, 420

  Stewart, Second Officer Donald, 136–7

  Stewart, Group-Captain Peter, 203

  Stigler, Franz, 467

  Stimson, Henry, 4, 403

  Stöbe, Ilse, 23, 191, 248

  Stockholm: as wartime intelligence centre, 338, 341–2, 344–5, 479

  Stokes, Hamilton, 343

  Straight, Michael, 375, 381

  Strojil, Obst. Lt., 469

  Strong, Maj. Gen. George V., 283

  Strong, Kenneth: receives requests for information, 47; questions genuineness of captured intelligence, 49; on German ineptness in landing agents, 57; on new intelligence methods, 70; character, 499; heads Allied intelligence organisation, 499; and Ardennes offensive (1944), 500–1

  Stuart, Charles, 60

  Stuart, Iseult, 333–4

  Stülpnagel, Gen. Carl-Heinrich, 313

  Stumme, Gen. Georg, 409

  Submarine Tracking Room (British), 69, 216–17

  Sudoplatov, Pavel: assassinates Ukrainian in Rotterdam, 18; background and career, 20–1; on Beria, 20; endorses Korotkov order, 117; and proposed secret Russo–German peace, 127; informed of German invasion, 133; heads NKVD’s ‘Administration for Special Tasks’, 174, 177; organises Trotsky’s asassination, 174; caution, 175; on mission to Caucasus, 178–9; promoted, 178; and use of elite units, 178; on betrayal of ‘Mars’, 232; on Russian radio deception, 238; and Operation ‘Monastery’, 279–80, 455–6; recruits Demyanov, 279–80; on importance of confidential contacts, 314; organises stay-behind operators and guerrilla groups, 316, 326; on Allied summits, 376; on Hiss, 377; meets Stalin, 456; gathers information on US atomic programme, 526, 528–9, 531; on final victory, 538; imprisoned as ‘enemy of the people’, 539; and subversion, 559

  Sudoplatova, Emma, 20–1, 133, 237–8

  Sukolov-Gourevitch, Anatoli see Gourevitch, Anatoli Sukolov-

  Suss, Louis (‘Salter’), 24, 109

  Sweden: breaks off economic relations with Germany, 480; see also Stockholm

  Sweet-Escott, Bickham, 264, 266–7, 279, 292, 299, 304

  Sweezy, Paul, 299, 302

  Swinemünde, 420

  Swinton, Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of, 208

  Switzerland: Soviet agents in, 24–6, 107–10, 251; Dulles in, 306–9; wartime profiteering, 309; as intelligence centre, 340, 347–8, 476–7; fear of German occupation, 347–8; Schellenberg in, 474–5, 481; German invasion threat, 476–7; ‘Viking’ intelligence line, 476–7; see also ‘Lucy’ Ring

  Sykes, Caprain, 264

  Szilárd, Leó, 526–7

  Szrajer, F/O, 427

  Szymańska, Halina, 17, 64

  Tachibana network (California), 144

  Taconis, Thys, 269

  Tai Li, 297

  Taiwan, 521

  Tajina Maru (Japanese trawler), 508

  Takayama, Col. Shinobu, 149

  Tamura, Col. Hiroshi, 153–4

  Tanabe, Kazuo, 145

  Tangier (US seaplane tender), 170

  Taunt, Derek, 90

  Taylor, Lt. Col. Telford, 404

  Tedrekin, Arnold, 433

  ‘Teffi’ (Ankara agent), 118

  Telecommunications Research Establishment (British), 256

  teleprinters: used by German high command, 411–16

  Tennei, Helen, 377

  Teplinsky, Maj. Gen. Boris, 236–7

  Tester, Major Ralph, 413

  Tew, AC1, 87

  Thailand: Japanese intelligence-gathering in, 153–4; British and US agents arrested, 515

  Thoma, Gen. Wilhelm, Ritter von, 421

  Thomas, Edward, 86

  Thomas, Gen. Georg, xx–xxi

  Thompson, Harry, 143

  Thomsen, Henning, 336

  Thor (German merchant cruiser), 94–5

  Thummel, Paul (agent A–54), 1, 40–1, 48, 56, 109

  Tiltman, Col. John, 74, 80, 86, 408, 411–12, 545

  Times, The, 365

  Timoshenko, Marshal Semyon Konstantinovitch, 127

  Tinchebray, Captain, 270

  Tippelskirch, Gen. Kurt von, 455, 457

  Tirpitz, Admiral Alfred von, 29

  Tirpitz (German battleship), 199, 214, 312

  Tishiyuji, Rear-Admiral Yokoi, 521

  Tito, Josip Broz, 272, 278, 295, 364, 536

  Tizard, Sir Henry Thomas: mission to USA, 99

  Todt Organisation, 190

  Tojo, Gen. Hideki, 150–1, 181

  Tokko (Japanese security police), 181–2

  Tokyo: Sorge in, 33–5, 37–8

  Tolstoy, Ilya, 293

  Tolstoy, Captain Sergei, 183–4

  Tonkin, Captain John, 389

  Tooze, Adam, 13

  ‘Torch’ landings (North Africa, November 1942), 206, 411, 454–5, 479

  torpedoes: US failures, 507

  Toscanini, Countess Wally, 306

  Toynbee, Philip, 352, 357

  Tranow, Wilhelm, 218, 220

  Travis, Edward, 88–9, 91, 412, 511–12, 552

  Trepper, Leopold: background, 23; with Gourevitch in Brussels, 30–1, 239; moves to Paris (1940), 54; intelligence network, 55, 244, 541; ordered to contact Berlin agents, 189; receives profits from Simexco, 190; Berlin networks use transmitter, 193; knows identities of ‘Red Orchestra’, 239; returns to Paris with Gourevitch, 240; in Gestapo hands, 248–50; wireless operator seized, 248; imprisoned in Russia, 539

  Trevelyan, G.M., 206

  Trevor-Roper, Hugh: serves in intelligence, xxiv, 59; criticises MI6 officers, 9, 392–3; disparages Menzies, 17, 67, 208; shadows and studies Canaris, 57–8, 60, 63–4, 67, 208; reads Abwehr traffic, 58–9, 63; on Gambier-Parry, 59–60, 208; background and qualities, 60–1; heads MI6’s Radio Analysis Bureau’s intelligence section, 60; on German information bureaux, 61; stressed at Bletchley Park, 77; high-handed behaviour, 207–8; relations with MI6 colleagues, 207–8; on ‘Max’ (agent), 234–5; on German skill in countering Resistance, 271; disdain for American colleagues, 292; on value of studying public sources, 302–3; under-estimates communist threat, 353; on Philby, 361–2, 366; defines treason, 366; as chronicler of service, 394; on effect of ‘Cicero’ leaks, 463; on German intelligence disorder, 469–70, 472; interrogates Schellenberg, 544; later career and death, 544; on achievements of sigint, 548; on verifiable intelligence, 549; The Last Days of Hitler, 545

  Trevor-Roper, Richard, 58

  Tributh, Herbt, 335

  Trigger (US submarine), 507

  Trompke, Paul, 346

  Trotsky, Leon: assassination, 18, 174, 355, 381; Blumkin gives money to, 371

  Trott, Adam von, 395

  Truman, Harry S., 538

  Tsuchihashi, Major-Gen. Yuichi, 149

  ‘Tube Alloys’, 525

  Tucker, Robert, 301

  Tuckerman, Laura Wolcott, 289

  Tukhachevsky, Marshal Mikhail Nikolayevich, 2

  Tunney, Gene, 96

  Tunny decrypts, 487

  Turing, Alan: role at Bletchley Park, xxi, xxiv, 73, 547; background and character, 73–4, 77; plans ‘bombe’ machine, 75, 80, 411, 413; Knox disparages, 77; brilliance, 79; interest in German naval traffic, 82; plea to Churchill for more staff, 86; visits USA, 101; replaced as head of Hut 8, 410; studies electronic circuitry
, 414; Flowers works with, 415; and development of ‘Colossus’, 416; awarded CBE, 545; death, 546; reputation, 546–7

  Turkey: neutral status, 339–40; breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany, 464; Abwehr in, 471–2; anti-communism, 479; see also Ankara

  Turner, Cobden, 43–4

  Tutte, Bill, xxii, 412, 414, 545

  Tutte, Dorothea, 546

  Twenty Committee (British), 58, 359, 468, 484

  Type-X cipher machine (British), 71, 81, 448, 452

  U-67 (German submarine), 220

  U-110 (German submarine), 83

  U-111 (German submarine), 220

  U-559 (German submarine), 89–90

  U-boats: Ultra locates, xxii; successes, 82; signals read at Bletchley, 83, 90; campaign, 213; British lack technical knowledge of, 215; crews resist interrogation, 215; located, 217; informed of convoy movements, 218, 551; inadequate numbers, 221; sunk on passage to and from Japan, 397; types and equipment, 401; refuelling points attacked, 508

  Ukraine: partisans, 317; welcomes German liberators, 317; rebellion in, 559

  Ullmann, William, 382–3

  Ultra: as term, xxii; importance, 69–70, 207, 209; and German invasion of USSR, 85; kept secret from USA, 99–100, 351; successes, 196; distribution of information, 209–10; secrecy protected, 213–14, 394, 405–6, 488, 553; information passed to Russians, 253; USSR denied access to, 364, 367; intercepts German traffic, 407; in North Africa, 408–9; strategic value, 418; and Allied invasion plans, 485–7; in Italian campaign, 488; final intervention in north-west Europe campaign, 490; and Ardennes offensive (1944), 499–501; in Pacific campaign, 504, 506, 508–9, 512; dominance, 548–9

  Umansky, Konstantin, 384

  United Nations: founding conference (San Francisco), 386

  United States of America: lacks pre-war intelligence service, 4; Soviet-sponsored espionage in, 31, 369–83, 537; German agents sent to, 48; Rome embassy penetrated, 66; Churchill aims to draw into war, 96; intelligence liaison with Britain, 96–102, 404–5; Office of War Information, 99, 260; wartime relations with Britain, 99; attacked at Pearl Harbor, 156; intelligence achievements and weaknesses, 156–7, 551–2, 556; command weaknesses, 206; lacks supreme authority figure, 304; loose security, 368; communism in, 369, 385; value of information passed to Russia, 387; Signals Intelligence Service, 395, 403; emphasises sigint, 403–4; inter-service rivalries, 407, 551; careless signals procedures in North Africa, 409; Sigaba (encrypting machine), 448, 458; loses cipher machine in France, 458; messages broken on invasion of Normandy, 486–7; rivalry in Asia with Britain, 513, 516–18; Japanese agents in, 520; see also Arlington Hall

 

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