My feeling, after reading the journal, is that at some point his habit of recording the routine of meetings and events served as a release from the crushing pressures that he faced every day. At another level, l suspect that Liddell believed that a first-hand account produced from the heart of the British intelligence establishment would one day offer future generations of counterintelligence officers and the public useful lessons gleaned from past successes and mistakes. There seems to be no other conclusion. Liddell never benefited financially from the diary. Winston had put this forward at Yalta but Roosevelt felt that the Americans would want a trial. Joe supported Roosevelt on the perfectly frank grounds that Russians liked public trials for propaganda purposes. It seems to me that we are just being dragged down to the level of the travesties of justice that have been taking place in the USSR for the past 20 yrs." In Spycatcher, Wright says that Martin interviewed Archer and that later when Wright spoke to her she said she considered both men unreliable but suggested Hollis was more likely to be a spy. [54] However, Christopher Andrew comments on an anecdote about Anthony Blunt [note 12] Liddell's diaries betray an increasingly febrile atmosphere in Whitehall as the disappearance of Burgess and Maclean hit the headlines. Liddell noted that they had slipped their "Watchers", but neither MI5 nor MI6 knew where they had fled. On 12 June 1951, Liddell wrote that Lascelles asked to see him "as the King was asking for information". The diary entry continues: "I told him that there was really no more news than he had seen in the papers". Liddell assured the palace that "no mention was made of Anthony and his association with Burgess, which had been referred to by at least one paper". The New Year Honours". Aberdeen Journal. 1 January 1926. p.8. Archived from the original on 17 December 2019 . Retrieved 29 October 2014– via British Newspaper Archive.

Chapman Pincher's account of the history of MI5 and SIS differs from those written with official involvement, including Christopher Andrew's. Pincher (an investigative journalist specialising in intelligence) claims the book written by Andrew (a Cambridge University professor of history, also specialising in intelligence) deliberately omits important material. [19] On the other hand, Andrew has reviewed documents unavailable to Pincher. [20] Generally, this article follows Andrew's account and cites him. Where the claims are irreconcilable this article gives an inline citation to Pincher alone. A major difference is Pincher's claim that Hollis was a " mole" and that official information about him has been obfuscated to support denial. Informed commentators differ in how much to believe of Pincher's claims. [21] He was married to a society heiress, the Hon. Calypso Baring, but the pressures of his job led to separation in 1943. Suggestions that he was a homosexual, like his close friend and Soviet mole Guy Burgess, have never been proved.

Guy Liddell Diaries

Twenty-four defendants were charged under four counts: crime against peace, planning and waging wars of aggression, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. They did not include Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, and Joseph Goebbels, head of propaganda, who had all killed themselves. Martin Bormann, the Nazi party secretary, was tried in absentia – his remains were found many years later in Berlin. The Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS) is a branch of the Ministry of Defence (MOD). As such, its records are identified by the department reference DEFE, the reference for all MOD records held at The National Archives. The two others are Graham Mitchell and Sir Roger Hollis. In 1951 Mitchell was in charge of counterespionage; he became deputy director general of MI5 (under Hollis) in 1956 and retired in 1963. He drafted the patently mendacious, demonstrably erroneous 1955 white paper on the Burgess-Maclean defection. On the strength of that document the Foreign Secretary, Harold Macmillan, gave Philby what the latter would call the happiest day of his life by publicly affirming Philby's innocence in the House of Commons - declaring, in a statement that Mitchell helped draft, that Philby was not the third man ("if indeed, there was one"). Hollis became deputy in 1953 and moved up in 1956 to be director general until his retirement, in 1965. Mitchell and Hollis were the subject of a series of investigations during the 1960s. Both were eventually declared innocent of any wrongdoing. (7) Christopher Andrew, The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5 (2009)

Later during the war, in 1944, Archer transferred to Section IX which was concerned with Soviet and communist counter-intelligence with Kim Philby as head of section. It was unfortunate for both Archer and SIS that Philby, later to be unmasked as a Soviet " mole", recognised her considerable abilities. [32] In his memoirs My Silent War Philby wrote: In 1919 Liddell joined Scotland Yard as a subordinate to Basil Thompson in the directorate of intelligence. Later Liddell became the liaison man between the police, the Special Branch and the Foreign Office. In this role he was involved in exposing the spying activities of the All Russian Cooperative Society, a spy ring based in London. According to Nigel West: "He (Liddell) was responsible for co-ordinating the police raid on the Arcos building in Moorgate in May 1927 (which also housed the Soviet trade delegation), in pursuit of a missing classified RAF document. Although the document was not recovered, more than enough evidence was found of Soviet espionage, which was enhanced by the unexpected defection of a terrified code clerk, Anton Miller, who had been detained while attempting to burn incriminating files."Guy and Bertha Liddell made their home at Fonab (or Fonab Cottage), Pitlochry. (Electoral Registers and below.) Signals intelligence –that is intelligence gathered by the interception of electronic signals as well as other means of communication –is, today, handled by the Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ). The London Gazette, 18 June, 1940" (PDF). The London Gazette. 18 June 1940. p.3706. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 May 2017 . Retrieved 29 October 2014. Philby, Kim (2010). "Chapter VII. From War to Peace". My Silent War: The Autobiography of a Spy. London: Random House. ISBN 9781407060231. Archived from the original on 10 August 2017 . Retrieved 31 October 2014. Use the advanced searchoption to restrict your search results to the HW department and search by keywords, such as: