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34
 Security Service Archives.

35
 Security Service Archives.

36
 Security Service Archives.

37
 See above,
pp. 436
–
7
.

38
 Security Service Archives.

39
 Security Service Archives.

40
 Wright,
Spycatcher
,
p. 233
.

41
 Security Service Archives. Though Martin's suspension was not officially an
nounc
ed within the Service, he gave his account of how it came about to a number of colleagues.

42
 Security Service Archives.

43
 Security Service Archives.

44
 Security Service Archives.

45
 Wright,
Spycatcher
,
pp. 213
,
233
–
4
.

46
 Recollections of a former Security Service officer.

47
 Security Service Archives.

48
 Security Service Archives.

49
 Security Service Archives.

50
 Security Service Archives.

51
 Security Service Archives.

52
 Security Service Archives.

53
 Security Service Archives.

54
 Wright,
Spycatcher
,
pp. 295
–
7
,
301
–
2
.

55
 See above,
p. 510
.

56
 Wright,
Spycatcher
,
pp. 320
–
23
.

57
 Recollections of a former Security Service officer.

58
 Recollections of a former Security Service officer.

59
 Recollections of a former Security Service officer.

60
 Wright,
Spycatcher
,
p. 324
.

61
 Security Service Archives.

62
 Security Service Archives.

63
 Security Service Archives.

64
 Security Service Archives.

65
 Security Service Archives.

66
 Mangold,
Cold Warrior
,
p. 155
.

67
 Personal recollection by the programme presenter, Christopher Andrew.

68
 Security Service Archives.

69
 Security Service Archives.

70
 Wright,
Spycatcher
,
p. 316
.

71
 Security Service Archives.

72
 Security Service Archives.

73
 Wright,
Spycatcher
,
p. 331
.

74
 Security Service Archives.

75
 Security Service Archives.

76
 Rimington,
Open Secret
,
p. 100
.

77
 Security Service Archives.

78
 FJ wrote to Golitsyn:

You are invited by the Heads of both Services to visit the UK in order to assist them with problems of penetration of British Intelligence.

. . . On the basis of their past research the Security Service intend to provide you with briefs covering the individuals who have fallen within their field of scrutiny in the context of penetration. These briefs will cover a wider area than the limited proposals discussed between yourself and Mr Wright in November last year. Each case will be identified by a serial number but the full names of the individual concerned will be supplied on request . . . The briefs which will be supplied initially will be prepared in summary form . . .

Memorandum of Understanding [with Golitsyn], May 1970, Security Service Archives. There is no indication that Golitsyn was ever allowed to see the original Records of Service.

79
 Recollections of a former Security Service officer. Wright's account of this episode is inaccurate and, characteristically, puts Wright himself at centre-stage. Wright,
Spycatcher
,
pp. 316
–
17
.

80
 Security Service Archives.

81
 Security Service Archives.

82
 Security Service Archives.

83
 Recollections of a former Security Service officer.

84
 Security Service Archives. The worst that emerged from the prolonged investigation of Hollis was some evidence that he had been less than frank about his life immediately before the Second World War.

85
 Security Service Archives.

86
 Security Service Archives. See above,
pp. 280
–
82
.

87
 Security Service Archives.

88
 Security Service Archives.

89
 Security Service Archives.

90
 Security Service Archives.

91
 Security Service Archives.

92
 Security Service Archives.

93
 Wright,
Spycatcher
,
p. 341
.

94
 Ibid.,
p. 243
.

95
 Rimington,
Open Secret
,
p. 118
.

96
 Security Service Archives.

97
 Security Service Archives.

98
 Security Service Archives.

99
 Elsa Bernaut was the widow of the Soviet illegal Ignace Poretsky (also known as Reiss), who had been assassinated after defecting in 1937. In a bizarre and bullying interview with Bernaut in 1970, Wright perversely suggested that, though she had ‘muddled up' the dates, there was a reference in her memoirs to Ignace Reiss using Philby as a penetration agent. ‘This', noted Wright with evident self-satisfaction, ‘was entirely the right tactic. She blew up and was angry with me.' Security Services Archives.

100
 Security Service Archives.

101
 Security Service Archives.

Chapter 11: The Wilson Government 1964–1970:

Security, Subversion and ‘Wiggery-Pokery'

1
 Benn,
Out of the Wilderness
,
p. 37
.

2
 Ian Aitken, ‘Sinister backbench MP played key role in downfall',
Guardian
, 11 March 2006.

3
 Ziegler,
Wilson
,
p. 178
.

4
 See below,
p. 524
.

5
 See above,
p. 930 n. 82
.

6
 Cunningham and Hollis agreed that ‘The proposal would also mean that the Director General would be deprived of the advice which he was able to get from the PUS Home Office, which had been so strongly advocated by Sir Norman Brook, for Colonel Wigg who would be located in No. 10 would have no staff who could give such advice.' Security Service Archives.

7
 Wilson considered Trend the best civil servant he had ever known. Castle,
Castle Diaries
,
p. 115
.

8
 Security Service Archives.

9
 Ziegler,
Wilson
,
p. 178
.

10
 Security Service Archives.

11
 Jenkins,
Life at the Centre
,
p. 383
.

12
 Ziegler,
Wilson
,
p. 178
.

13
 Castle,
Castle Diaries
,
p. 172
.

14
 See below,
pp. 532
–
3
.

15
 Christopher Andrew, interview with the Rev. Anne Kiggell, July 2006.

16
 See below,
p. 633
.

17
 After a kerb-crawling episode in 1976, Wigg (then seventy-six years old) was found not guilty by the magistrate of using insulting behaviour likely to cause a breach of the peace on the grounds that kerb- crawling at that period was not in itself an offence. The police officer who gave evidence against Wigg referred to a previous occasion on which he had found him kerb-crawling and given him a warning. The officer also said that Wigg was known to officers of the Vice Squad covering the Hilton Hotel. ‘Kerb-Crawling Lord Wigg Stopped Six Women, Says PC',
Daily Telegraph
, 5 Nov. 1976. ‘Lord Wigg is cleared of insulting behaviour',
The Times
, 4 Dec. 1976.

18
 Security Service Archives.

19
 Security Service Archives.

20
 Benn,
Out of the Wilderness
,
p. 328
.

21
 Jenkins,
Life at the Centre
,
p. 175
.

22
 Benn,
Out of the Wilderness
,
p. 328
.

23
 Andrew,
Secret Service
,
p. 699
.

24
 Benn,
Out of the Wilderness
,
p. 329
.

25
 See above,
pp. 415
–
18
.

26
 Security Service Archives.

27
 See above,
pp. 412
–
14
.

28
 In the Bax case (see above,
p. 415
), however, Wilson told Hollis that ‘he thought it entirely right that we should have warned the Party that one of their employees was receiving money from Communist intelligence services.' Security Service Archives.

29
 When Gordon Walker made the proposal late in 1961, he was unaware that Clarke had attracted D2's attention in 1959 as a result of his contacts with officials at the Czechoslovak embassy, one of whom was believed to be an StB officer. When interviewed by D2 in February 1962, however, Clarke ‘gave a full account of his contacts with SovBloc officials in London. He was cooperative and made a good impression.' Security Service Archives.

30
 Security Service Archives.

31
 Security Service Archives.

32
 See below,
pp. 637
–
8
.

33
 Ziegler,
Wilson
,
p. 169
.

34
 Security Service Archives.

35
 Security Service Archives. See below,
pp. 711
–
12
.

36
 Ziegler,
Wilson
,
pp. 250
–
51
.

37
 Recollections of a former Security Service officer.

38
 Security Service Archives.

39
 Recollections of a former Security Service officer.

40
 Recollections of a former Security Service officer.

41
 Security Service Archives.

42
 Security Service Archives.

43
 Ziegler,
Wilson
,
p. 251
.

44
 Security Service Archives.

45
 Security Service Archives.

46
 The initial membership consisted of Ramelson, Jack Coward, Jack Dash, Gordon Norris and Harry Watson (President of the Lightermen's Union). All were Communists. Security Service Archives.

47
 Security Service Archives.

48
 Security Service Archives.

49
 Security Service Archives.

50
 Security Service Archives.

51
 Security Service Archives.

52
 Jenkins made no mention of the seamen's strike in his memoirs,
A Life at the Centre
.

53
 See above,
p. 410
.

54
 Security Service Archives.

55
 Security Service Archives.

56
 Recollections of a former Security Service officer.

57
 
Parl. Deb. (Commons)
, 28 June 1966, cols 1613–14.

58
 Castle,
Castle Diaries
,
pp. 135
–
6
.

59
 Crossman,
Diaries of a Cabinet Minister
, vol. 1,
p. 534
. Castle,
Castle Diaries
,
p. 136
.

60
 Ziegler,
Wilson
,
p. 252
.

61
 Chapman Pincher, ‘Labour Made Loyalty Probe',
Daily Express
, 15 Feb. 1967.

62
 Pincher,
Inside Story
,
p. 228
.

63
 Security Service Archives.

64
 Williams,
Inside Number Ten
,
pp. 184
,
185
,
195
–
6
.

65
 Pincher,
Inside Story
,
p. 233
.

66
 Palmer, ‘History of the D-Notice Committee',
pp. 244
–
5
.

67
 Wilkinson,
Secrecy and the Media
, section 7.

68
 Pincher,
Inside Story
,
pp. 22
,
232
.

69
 Security Service Archives.

70
 ‘Obituary: Roy Jenkins', BBC News, 5 Jan. 2003. There is no evidence that Jenkins was abusing his position by trying to find out if his affair with Radziwill had been revealed by phone tapping.

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