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by Henry Hemming


  CIA 291, 326

  Citrine, Walter 175–6

  Clark, R. T. 205–6

  Co-Operative Movement 414

  ‘Cockade’ plan, 1943 251

  Cockburn, Claud 161, 259, 294

  Cohen, Israel 51

  Cohen, John 394, 395–6, 400, 401, 426, 429

  Cold War 291

  Colonial Office 392

  Columbus, Christopher 385

  Combined Operations 3, 6, 235–6, 242, 243; Department of Wild Talents within 270–2, 354; Director of Programmes, GP appointed 3, 6, 255, 280; as dream job for GP 262–3; GP’s ability to solve problems recognised at 263–9; GP’s greatest achievements in 382, 383–4; GP attempts to awaken minds at 268–9; GP’s colleagues at 262, 269–71, 287; GP’s improvements to 279; GP’s role comes to an end 390; Habbakuk and 335–40, 342–71, 372–3, 385, 387, 388, 393–4, 429, 431; insider’s account of a secret meeting of found in Burgess’s flat 272; King George and 271; Marshall visits 276; MI5 attempts to curtail GP’s role at 6, 255, 272–2, 280, 293–4, 324–5, 326–7, 342, 387; MI5 suspicions over members of 271–2, 280, 293–4; Mountbatten as head of 248–9, 250, 252, 260, 263, 269, 270, 273; Mountbatten leaves 372, 376, 380, 381; Mountbatten takes over 248–9; Mulberry harbours and see Mulberry harbours; Plough plan, GP attempts to sell to 235–6, 242, 243–55; Plough project implementation and see Plough; PLUTO and see PLUTO; Richmond Terrace headquarters 235–6, 252, 262, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 276, 279, 290, 306, 320, 322, 325, 339, 342, 363, 370, 376, 381, 383, 384, 409, 410; GP’s salary at 255, 262, 381; United States involvement in 276

  Comintern 6, 210, 225, 226, 230, 256–7, 258–9, 260, 281, 293, 294, 325, 406, 413, 414, 422, 425

  Communist Party 141, 175, 183, 209, 210, 233, 257, 270, 286, 426 see also under individual Communist Party name

  Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 141, 175, 183, 233, 257, 271, 281, 283, 286, 324, 325, 342, 408, 414, 423, 424, 425

  Conan Doyle, Arthur 70

  Conradi, Peter 419

  Conservative Party 172, 222

  Copper Exporters Incorporated (CEI) 143–4, 148–9

  Corera, Gordon 411–12

  Country Life 108

  Courtauld Institute 408

  Coward, Noël 343, 420

  Cox, Oscar 5, 316–17, 318, 319, 320, 426

  Criminal Investigation Department (CID) 103, 107, 109

  Cripps, Sir Stafford 225, 287, 364

  Crowther, Miss 188–9

  Cumming, Colonel Malcolm 218–19, 220–1

  Cunningham, Amy 188, 191, 192, 194, 195, 196, 206, 207

  ‘Cyclo-Tractors’ 391–2, 429

  Czech Refugee Trust Fund (CRTF) 227–8, 230

  Czechoslovakia 184–5, 227–8, 281

  D-Day, 6th June, 1944 248, 251, 269, 309, 346, 370, 376, 381–5

  Daalhuis, Olde 91

  Dahlerus, Birger 194

  Daily Chronicle 11, 20–6, 29, 34, 42, 92, 93–4, 97, 104, 112, 206, 393

  Daily Express 144, 343, 393, 402

  Daily Graphic 402

  Daily Mail 96, 286, 392

  Daily Mirror 169, 393

  Daily Sketch 111

  Daily Telegraph, The 20, 24, 96

  Daily Worker 2, 181, 283, 386, 424

  de Casa Maury, Marquis 262

  del Vayo, Julio Álvarez 181

  Democratic Movement 283

  Denison, Admiral 102–3, 105

  Denman, Lady 158

  Denmark 15, 16, 17–19, 21, 30, 67, 68, 218, 219, 236

  Department EH 420, 421

  Department of Prisoners of War 99

  depression/recession, 1929 157–8

  Der Stürmer 215

  Deutsch, Arnold 229

  Deuxième Bureau 211

  Dicker, Miss 218

  Dieppe, Allied raid on, 1942 309, 339, 343

  Dill, Field Marshal Sir John 244, 309, 319, 321

  Discovery 402

  Dobb, Maurice 141, 174

  Dobb, Phyllis 141

  Donald, Robert 97

  Dönitz, Admiral Karl 367

  Doschenko, Aleksei 210

  Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 48

  Double Cross 53

  Dragon School, Oxford 158

  Drake, Reginald ‘Duck’ 103, 104, 106, 108

  Dudeney, Squadron Leader 410

  Duff Cooper, Alfred 167–8

  Duncan, Brigadier Nigel 296, 301, 302, 303, 304, 305, 306, 307–8, 310, 312, 313, 322, 333, 396

  Economist 223, 391–2

  Edward VIII, King 167–8, 169, 294

  Edward, Margaret 388

  Edwards, Marjorie 158

  Eichmann, Adolf 227

  Einstein, Albert 3, 34, 403, 417

  Eisenhower, General 298, 299, 304, 306–7, 308, 310, 382

  El Alamein, battle of, 1942 346

  Eliasson motorised toboggan 300

  Eliot, T. S. 413

  Elizabeth, Princess 181

  Elliott, Sydney 206, 284, 285, 422

  Ellison, Wallace 57, 69

  Emsdetten, Germany 80, 81

  Engelbart, Douglas 385

  Ettinghausen, Maurice 50

  Evening Standard 238, 286, 363, 402

  Faber & Faber 413

  Fabian Society 225, 392, 393

  Fabianism 141, 225, 286, 392, 393, 414

  Fairbanks Jr, Douglas 262

  Falk, Teddy 44–6, 45, 47, 50, 51, 54–6, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 67, 68–9, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85–9, 90, 91, 92, 94, 97, 109, 426

  Falmouth Harbour 102

  Falster Island, Denmark 29, 68

  Faringdon, Lord 175, 227

  FBI 326

  Ferdinand, Archduke Franz 12

  Ferrier, Arthur 217

  Fifth Destroyer Flotilla 245

  First Special Service Force (FSSF), American-Canadian (‘Devil’s Brigade’) 4, 322–3, 382–3, 385, 430 see also Pyke, Geoffrey: Plough project

  First World War, 1914–18 6, 16–43, 44–98, 99–113, 124, 129, 158, 162, 181, 247, 259

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott 118

  Foot, Michael 284

  For Intellectual Liberty 172

  Foreign Office 106, 194, 204, 205, 211, 213, 407, 416

  Forschungsabteilung Judenfrage (Nazi ‘Research Department for the Jewish Question’) 164

  Forster, E. M. 140

  Fortitude North, Operation 251

  Fox, Edward Lyell 18–19, 23, 34, 50

  France 16, 30, 31, 35, 106, 185, 190, 193, 203, 204, 211, 214, 219, 227, 241, 251, 275, 282, 309, 365, 370, 382, 407

  Franco, General Francisco 171, 172, 181

  Frankfurt, Germany 69, 195, 197, 198, 199, 201, 203, 206–7

  Frederick, Lieutenant-Colonel Robert T. 307, 308, 310–11, 312, 323

  Free French 282

  Free German Movement 282

  ‘Free Movements’ 282

  French High Command (GQG) 106

  Freud, Sigmund 4, 114, 121, 124, 130, 134, 135, 137, 140, 428, 434

  Fuchs, Klaus 291, 349

  Fulford, Roger 342

  Fuller, Fred 189, 203, 206, 215, 259, 416

  Futurism 13–15, 29, 48, 154

  Fyfe, Hamilton 20

  Gallup, Dr/Gallup technique 168, 192, 199–200, 214, 416, 428

  Gardiner, Margaret 174, 176, 387, 390

  Gellhorn, Martha 171

  General Election, UK, 1945 394

  General Strike, May, 1926 141

  George VI, King 1, 4, 169, 271

  Gerard, James W. 50, 51

  German Army 35, 36, 37, 159, 184–5, 219, 233, 383 see also under individual conflict and operation name

  German Communist Party (KPD) 225, 226–7, 229, 230, 282, 284, 291, 292, 324, 416, 417, 423, 425

  German Navy 19, 367

  Germany: anti-Semitism and 157–67 see also anti-Semitism; Communism in 225, 226–7, 229, 230, 282, 284, 291, 292, 324, 416, 417, 423, 425; First World War and 18–19, 23–43, 44–98, 100, 103, 104, 105, 108, 109, 113; rise of f
ascism in 157–61, 173, 180; survey of attitudes towards war within, GP’s 184–216; Second World War and 214–385, 387, 388–90, 391, 392, 393, 394, 397, 407, 411, 412, 417, 418, 419, 420, 421, 422, 423, 426, 429, 435, 439

  Gestapo 189, 192, 195, 199, 208, 226, 227, 267

  Gibbs, Philip 21

  Gilbertson, John 188

  Glading, Percy 208–9, 210, 221, 257, 259

  Glasgow Police 106

  Glover, Dr James 114, 129, 396

  Glover, Edward 396, 397

  Goebbels, Joseph 159, 201

  Gog and Magog (landing stages and breakwaters constructed from Pykrete) 370

  Golders Green, London 208–9, 211, 221, 290, 416

  Gollancz, Victor 151, 284

  Goodeve, Sir Charles 344

  Gordievsky, Oleg 410

  Gorsky, Anatoli 412

  Goslar, Germany 75–6, 78

  Grant, Lieutenant Commander Douglas 350

  Granta 24

  Grey, Sir Edward 41

  GRU (Soviet military intelligence) 226, 233, 257, 284, 291

  Guernica, bombing of, 1937 175

  Guilty Men (Foot/Owen/Howard) 284

  Habbakuk 431, 435, 436; Admiralty press release on, 1946 393–4; berg-ship 336–7, 341–2, 344, 345, 347, 348, 351, 352, 355, 359, 360, 361, 362, 363–4, 365, 370, 373, 429; Bernal and 345, 346, 352, 353–4, 355, 356, 357–8, 359, 360, 362–3, 364, 373–4, 375, 376, 396; Canadian trials 344, 345, 347–66, 356, 357; Churchill and 338, 341–2, 344, 346, 351, 359, 360, 362, 364, 365, 366, 368–9, 376; demise of 366–7, 372–6, 377, 381, 385, 387; GP seen as security risk on 374–5; Habbakuk Directing Committee 344; Habbakuk Standing Committee 363–4; legacy of 429; Mackenzie and 346–8, 353, 354, 355, 356, 357, 358, 360, 361, 364, 373, 375; Mountbatten and 327–8, 329, 330–1, 335–6, 337, 338, 339–43, 344, 345–6, 350, 351, 352, 354, 359, 362, 363, 364, 365, 366, 367–8, 369, 370–1, 373–4, 376; name of project 338–9; plan/proposal for 327–39; ‘Pykrete’ 334–6, 349–51, 354, 356, 358–9, 360, 361–2, 367–71, 373, 377, 393–4, 429, 436; Superman comic strip and 374–5; United States role in 367–71, 372–4

  Hadley, W. S. 100–1, 102, 426

  Haldane, Charlotte 141, 228

  Haldane, J. B. S. 141, 144, 174, 284

  Hardy, Thomas 104–5

  Harriman, Averell 296, 297, 341

  Harris, ‘Bomber’ 351

  Harrison, Tom 169–70

  Hawker Hurricanes 366

  ‘Hedgehogs’ 366

  Hentschel, Cedric 188, 190, 191, 192, 196, 206

  Herzl, Herod 165

  Hewit, Jackie 408

  HF-DF masts 366

  Hitler, Adolf 157, 158–9, 164, 172, 183, 184–5, 186, 189, 192, 193, 195, 199, 200, 214, 215, 226, 233, 251, 256, 268, 273, 287, 298, 377, 391, 392, 417

  Hoag, Colonel 300–1, 322

  Hobsbawm, Eric 172, 183

  Holland 28, 67, 76, 79, 80, 83, 87, 89–90, 93, 94, 97, 98, 207, 219

  Holmes, Sherlock (fictional character) 70

  Holocaust 430

  Home Office 99, 102, 106, 222, 292

  Hopkins, Harry 275–6, 277, 295, 297, 308–9, 316, 317, 320, 321–2, 402

  Hopkins, Mrs 1, 2, 402

  Horder, Mervyn (later Lord) 217

  Hotel Adlon, Berlin 34–5

  Houghton Mifflin 108

  Howard, Peter 284

  Hughes-Hallett, Captain John 384

  Hunter, Harry 287

  Hyde, Douglas 283–4, 424

  ice, ingenious use of see Pyke, Geoffrey: Habbakuk

  Illustrious, HMS 248

  In Which We Serve (movie) 343

  India 222, 377, 380

  Inglorious Bastards (movie) 4, 323

  Inside Nazi Germany 230, 292

  Institute of Psychoneurology’s ‘Children’s Home’ 134

  Inter-States Committee of Communist Groups in Great Britain (ISC) 281, 282, 422

  International Brigades 173

  Ironside, Sir Edmund 193

  Isaacs, Nathan 129, 130, 138, 139, 144, 149, 426

  Isaacs, Susie 129–30, 134–5, 136, 137, 138, 144–5, 146, 149, 151, 154, 396

  Isle of Man 223, 226

  Ismay, General 366

  Italy 67, 126, 172, 244

  Japan 191, 351, 365, 370

  Jasper National Park, Canada 347, 354–5

  Jennings, Humphrey 169, 170

  Jews: ancient 240; English 160, 165; German 158–64, 199, 214, 242; Sephardic 28, 160; South African 165–6 see also anti-Semitism and Pyke, Geoffrey: Jewishness

  Joachim, Maud 388

  Jobs, Steve 385

  Jodel, General 268

  Johnson, Lyndon 318

  Jubilee, Operation 309

  Judy (dog) 158, 171

  Jupiter, Operation 308, 365

  Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics 34

  Kamnitzer, Heinz 223, 224, 225, 229–30, 234, 292, 387, 389, 413, 423

  Kapitza, Peter 140

  Kaptelsev, Mihel 210

  ‘Kaspar’ (MI5 listening device in CPGB headquarters) 324, 325

  Katz, Otto 414–15, 415, 424

  Keats Grove, Hampstead 230, 231, 388

  Keilin, Professor David 164–5

  Kell, Major Vernon 99, 100, 102, 109–10, 211

  Kelly, HMS 343

  Kennedy-Purvis, Admiral Sir Charles 360, 364

  Kettle, Dr Arnold 183

  Keynes, Maynard 110, 124, 125, 137–8

  KGB 410

  King, Admiral 351, 369, 372–3, 375, 383

  King’s College, Cambridge 125, 137, 183

  Kisch, Richard 259

  Klein, Melanie 139–40

  Kneschke, Karl 417

  Knox, Captain John 297, 303, 305, 321

  Koenen, Wilhelm 227, 416, 417

  Korda, Sir Alexander 363

  Kraul, Captain Sidney 223

  Kuczynski, Jürgen 291, 292, 293, 326, 349, 389, 416, 417, 419, 423, 425, 426

  Kuczynski, Marguerite 291

  Kuczynski, Sonya 291

  labour, movement, British 174–6, 186, 415–16

  Labour Party 168, 175, 180, 186, 285, 391, 394, 414, 435

  Lake Louise, Canada 330, 356, 357, 357, 358

  Lake Orta, Italy 126

  Lamb, Edith 188, 203, 206, 207

  Lambe, Sir Charles 378

  Lampe, David 403, 404

  Lane, Allen 284, 292

  Laski, Harold 174

  Laura Spelman Rockefeller Trust 151

  Lawn Road Flats, Hampstead 229

  Lawrence, T. E. 273

  le Carré, John 256, 413

  League of Nations 165–6, 200

  Leblanc, Maurice 70

  Left Book Club 284

  Left News 181

  Leigh Lights 366

  Lennox, Colonel 293

  Lessig, Herbert 227

  Let’s Find Out (film) 144–8

  Libya 21, 353

  Liddell, Guy 257, 293, 311, 408

  Liddell Hart, Basil 238, 241, 293

  Lindemann (later, Lord Cherwell), Frederick 241, 242, 243, 277, 327, 341, 342, 344, 346, 352, 364, 426

  Lipschitz, Mrs 218

  Lloyd, Geoffrey 382

  Lloyd, Margaret 388

  Lody, Carl 47

  London Metal Exchange 128, 143

  London School of Economics (LSE) 126, 174, 188, 194

  Longworth, J. R. 209

  Los Alamos 299

  Lubin, Isidor 315–16, 317, 318, 320, 426

  Lucas, F. L. 174

  Luftwaffe 218, 337

  Lupin, Arsène (fictional character) 70, 75, 78

  Lusitania Verein (the Lusitania Singing Club) 69

  Lyttelton, Oliver 352

  Lytton, Henry 22

  Lytton, Lord 165

  Macartney, Wilfred 325

  MacDonald, Ramsay 110

  Mackenzie, Jack 346–8, 353, 354, 355, 356, 357, 358, 360, 361, 364, 373, 375

  Maclean, Donald 407

  MacNarney, Lieutenant-General Joseph T. 298, 304
, 308

  Madge, Charles 169, 170

  Malmo harbour, Sweden 15–16, 23, 64

  Malting House School, Cambridge 114, 120–40, 141, 142, 144–8, 145, 150–2, 153, 165, 170, 297, 312, 326, 430–1; brightest toddlers in Cambridge, attracts 132; closure of 153; ‘co-investigators’ at 133, 146; discovery must be allied to utility/heuristics and 132–3; experience of children at 131–2; financial problems 121, 151, 152; garden at 131; idea for 114, 120–40; impact on British education of 132, 151; international institute for educational research, GP decides to turn into an 144; lack of classrooms 131; need for boundaries at 147–8; prestige of 139–40; problems with children at 134–7, 147–8; promotional film (Let’s Find Out) 144–7; punishments at 134–5, 136; questions, answering of at 132; recording of experiences at 132, 134; recruitment 128–30; scientific experiment and 131, 132; Susie Isaacs, GP’s affair with 137–9; Susan Isaacs resigns from 149

  Mammoth Unsinkable Vessel with functions of a Floating Airfield 336

  Manchester Guardian 95, 108, 122, 181, 185, 186, 192, 197, 244–5, 392, 402

  Mander, Geoffrey 292

  Mandragora 14, 14, 22

  Manhattan Project 299, 317

  Margaret, Princess 181

  Marinetti, Filippo 13–15, 21

  Mark, Professor Herman 333, 335, 353, 426, 429

  Marshall, General 275, 276, 277, 278, 295, 297, 298, 305, 308, 309, 321, 383, 438

  Martin, Kingsley 174, 175

  Marx, Karl 140

  Marxism 141, 257, 286, 294, 405, 415

  ‘MASK’ decrypts 257

  Mass Observation movement 1, 4, 167–71, 200, 430

  Massey, Vincent 351

  Masterman, John 52–3

  Max-Clemens Canal 80, 81–2, 83

  Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota 330, 339, 345, 404

  McCloy, John J. 317

  McFadyean, Sir Andrew 164

  McNaughton, General 244

  McSweeney’s 108

  MD1 273

  Melchett, Lord 165

  Merritt Miner, Steven 411

  Meusel, Professor Alfred 284, 292

  MI5 (British Security Service) 49–50, 98, 99, 100, 102, 103, 104, 105, 165, 181–2, 208, 215, 217, 219; B Branch 257; B.2.b. section 208–9; B.6 section 272, 287; Burgess and Blunt, uncovers GP’s connections to 6, 272, 407–27; C Branch 324; calculus of suspicion calibrated by class 288; Cambridge, suspicions aroused about GP in 100–2; classified documents on GP released 5–6, 408; Colonel Malcolm Cumming investigates GP 218–21; Combined Operations, attempts to curtail GP’s role at 6, 255, 272–2, 280, 293–4, 324–5, 326–7, 342, 387; CPGB action propaganda, suspects GP as man in charge of 282–94; E Branch 258; F.2b section 256; First World War, suspects GP as German spy in 6, 49–50, 98, 99–108, 110, 111, 112, 113; G Branch 103; gap in GP’s story from 1929–34 and 259; German Communists in Britain, wartime outlook on 232–3, 234; Glading trial and 208, 209–10, 257; Golders Green, investigates GP’s connection to women in who claims to be part of a foreign secret service 208–9, 221, 416; informants 6, 232–3, 257; intercept GP’s letters 6, 102, 424; Kamnitzer and Rünkel, investigate GP’s connections to 223–4, 229–30, 232–4; ‘known Communist’, GP described as 217, 221; Marjorie Watson and see Watson, Marjorie; members of public report suspicious sounds coming from GP’s flat 217, 218, 221, 284, 285, 421–2; ‘Mr Stevens’, suspects GP to be 209; no charge brought against GP 6; Personal/Special File on GP 99, 100, 111, 112, 113, 122, 234, 271, 311; surveillance of GP 6, 287–94; sailing activities in Cornwall, observes GP’s 102–6; Scandinavia, stops GP from going to 107–8; struggles to cope in early days of Second World War 221; ‘Professor P’, suspects GP of being a senior Comintern official working undercover for Soviet Union as 6, 256–60, 281–94, 387, 406, 407–27; Thomson investigates 104–6, 109–10; VIAS as ‘under Communist control’, describes 210–11

 

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