The Bedbug (42 page)

Bazley, Sir Thomas: Gloucestershire landowner and MI5 officer who provided property for Special Operations training and homes for Klop and family members.

Best, Sigismund Payne: Long-serving MI6 officer in Holland, captured at Venlo.

Beurton, Len: Husband of Soviet agent Ursula Kuczynski (Red Sonja).

Blunt, Anthony: Wartime MI5 officer publicly unmasked in 1979 as a member of the ‘Cambridge Five’ Soviet spy ring.

Bristow, Desmond: MI6 officer working with Klop in Lisbon.

Bruce, Henry: First Secretary at the British embassy in St Petersburg at the time of the Revolution. Married Nadia’s friend, the ballerina Tamara Karsavina.

Buchanan, Sir George: British ambassador to St Petersburg during First World War.

Buchanan, Meriel: Daughter of Sir George and friend of Moura Budberg.

Burgess, Guy: Member of ‘Cambridge Five’ Soviet spy ring, defected 1951.

Burt, Commander Len: Metropolitan Police Special Branch officer responsible for liaison with MI5.

Cadogan, Sir Alec: Appointed permanent under-secretary at the Foreign Office in 1938, in place of Vansittart whose vehement opposition to appeasement had become unacceptable.

Chamberlain, Neville: Prime Minister 1937-May 1940, architect of appeasement.

Chenhalls: Family friends of Klop and Nadia. Joan worked with Klop at MI5, her brother Alfred was a show-business accountant and agent, sister Hope also had film star connections.

Christie, Group Captain Malcolm: Vansittart’s foremost intelligence agent and peace-broker.

Churchill, Winston: Conservative, vociferous opponent of appeasement. Prime Minister, May 1940-1945, 1951-55.

Cooper, Duff: Secretary of State for War 1937-38, wartime Chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster, friend of Moura Budberg.

Dansey, Claude: MI6 assistant chief, controller of the Z organisation of agents.

Dalton, Hugh: Labour minister initially in charge of the Special Operations Executive.

Delmer, Sefton: Journalist, head of black propaganda unit during WWII, friend of Otto John.

Dukes, Sir Paul: MI6 officer in Russia at the time of the Revolution, closely linked to the Mariinsky Theatre.

Eden, Anthony: Foreign Secretary 1935-1938, 1940-1945, 1951-55, Prime Minister 1955-1957.

Edward VIII: King, 1936, thereafter Duke of Windsor. Abdicated to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson. Suspected of Fascist sympathies.

Elliott, Nicholas: Fellow MI6 officer and friend of Klop and Nadia.

Foote, Alexander: Radio operator for the Soviet
Rote Drei
network in Switzerland.

Fuchs, Klaus: German refugee, naturalised British, convicted of betraying atom bomb secrets to the Russians.

Gledhill, Cecil: MI6 station chief in Lisbon.

Halifax, Lord: Foreign Secretary, 1938-1940, ambassador to US 1940-1946.

Hampshire, Stuart: Philosopher, MI6 analyst and interrogator working alongside Klop.

Hoare, Sir Samuel: Former MI6 officer and Cabinet minister, WWII ambassador to Spain.

Intelligence services:

GC&CS (Government Code and Cipher School): Signals intelligence including Bletchley Park, Enigma, Ultra and ISOS decrypts.

MI5 (aka the security service): Domestic counter-espionage, including the Colonies.

MI6 (aka SIS - Secret Intelligence Service): Foreign intelligence.

SOE (aka Special Operations Executive): Responsible for sabotage behind enemy lines and Resistance operations.

Kell, Sir Vernon: Founder and director general of MI5, 1909-1940.

Kerby: Captain Henry ‘Bob’: Russian-born member of MI5 and MI6, friend of Klop and of Russian Royal family. Latterly a Conservative MP.

Korda, Sir Alexander: Hungarian-born film director with links to MI6.

Kuczynski: German Jewish refugee family, most of whom were committed Communists and Soviet agents. Jurgen recruited atom spy Klaus Fuchs and his sister Ursula (codename Sonja) ran Fuchs and other agents worldwide.

Liddell, Guy: Head of counter intelligence, later deputy director of MI5. Recruited Klop.

Lockhart, Robert Bruce: British diplomat involved in plot to assassinate Lenin. Lover of Moura Budberg. Later friend and supporter of Klop in London.

Loxley, Peter: Senior Foreign Office liaison officer with MI6.

MacDonald, Ramsay: Labour, Prime Minister 1924, 1929-31 then as leader of National Government 1931-1935.

Maclean, Donald: Member of ‘Cambridge Five’ Soviet spy ring, defected 1951.

May, Alan Nunn: British atom bomb scientist convicted of spying for Russian.

Menzies, Sir Stewart: Chief of MI6, 1939-1952.

MI5/MI6: See Intelligence.

Milne, Major I I (Tim): Philby’s deputy in the Iberian section of MI6.

Morton, Desmond: Churchill’s security adviser and liaison with MI5 and MI6.

Mosley, Oswald: Leader of British Union of Fascists.

Mounsey, Sir George: Vansittart’s Assistant Secretary at the Foreign Office.

Napier, Sir Robert: Leader of British expeditionary force against Emperor Theodore.

Nicolson, Sir Harold: Diplomat and diarist, friend and supporter of Albrecht Bernstorff.

Norton, Sir Clifford: Foreign Office official who befriended Klop and later recruited him to Lord Vansittart’s private intelligence network.

Norton, ‘Peter.’: Wife of Sir Clifford, painter and arts patron, friend of Nadia.

Petrie, Sir David: Director-general of MI5 1941-1946.

Philby, Kim: One of the ‘Cambridge Five’ Soviet spy ring. Klop’s boss at MI6.

Reid, Sir Edward: Director of Barings Bank and financial adviser to MI5.

Robertson, Major T.A.R. (Tar): MI5 controller of the Double Cross system.

Ryle, Gilbert: Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at Oxford University, analyst and interrogator with Klop for MI6.

Salis, Count Charles de: MI6 head of counter-espionage in Lisbon.

Sinclair, Admiral Sir Hugh ‘Quex’ Sinclair: Chief of MI6, 1923-1939.

Sissmore, Jane: see Archer.

Stevens, Captain Richard: MI6 head of station in Holland, captured by the Germans at Venlo.

Trevor Roper, Hugh (later Lord Dacre): Historian and analyst for MI6.

Vansittart, Lord (Robert): Permanent under-secretary at the Foreign Office and vociferous opponent of Hitler’s Germany. Obtained British nationality for Klop.

Venlo: Place on the Dutch-German border where MI6 officers Best and Stevens were captured in a Gestapo sting operation.

Vivian, Valentine: Head of the anti-Comintern Section V of MI6, and later deputy director.

White, Sir Dick: Klop’s case officer in MI5, later director of MI5 and then MI6.

Willert, Sir Arthur: Head of News Department at the Foreign Office.

Windsor, Duke of: See Edward VIII.

Winsor, Rita: MI6 colleague of Klop’s in Lisbon.

GERMANY

Abwehr: See Intelligence.

Adenauer, Konrad: Leader of Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and first post-war Chancellor in 1949.

Banse, Felix: Klop’s Wolff Bureau colleague in Amsterdam and London.

Bene, Otto: Leader of German Nazi party in Britain prior to WWII.

Bernstorff, County Albrecht: Respected anti-Nazi diplomat who formed a social double act with Klop.

Brüning, Heinrich: Leader of the Centre Party and Reichs Chancellor, 1930-32, later exiled to Britain and US.

Bussche, Baron Axel von dem: Volunteered for suicide mission to kill Hitler. Related to Klop’s godmother.

Canaris, Admiral Wilhelm: Head of the Abwehr, aloof from but not unsympathetic to anti-Nazi conspiracies.

Cramer, Fritz: Head of SS in Lisbon and one of Klop’s main adversaries.

Fidrmuc, Paul (codename Ostro): Successful Abwehr agent in Portugal.

Gehlen, Major General Reinhard: Hitler’s head of military intelligence on the Eastern Front, Cold War head of West German intelligence.

Gestapo: See Intelligence.

Geyr von Schweppenburg, General Leo: Military attaché in London 1933-37, informant of Klop’s and organiser of secret pre-war peace talks.

Goebbels, Joseph: Hitler’s propaganda minister

Hess, Rudolf: Hitler’s deputy who flew to Britain in May 1941 on an apparently unauthorised peace mission.

Hesse, Fritz: Klop’s pro-Nazi replacement as press officer in the London embassy.

Heydrich, Reinhard: Director of RHSA Reich security service, assassinated in Czechoslovakia in 1942 provoking terrible reprisals.

Hilger, Gustav: German diplomat in Moscow, helped Klop and Nadia escape in 1920; instrumental in Treaty of Rapallo; interrogated by Klop at the end of the WWII; became a Cold War adviser to the US government.

Hitler, Adolf: Founder of Nazi party, Chancellor 1933-1945.

Himmler, Heinrich: Interior Minister and head of the RSHA.

Intelligence services:

Abwehr: Military intelligence responsible for foreign espionage until supplanted by the RSHA.

RSHA: Reich Main Security Office
Reichssicherheitshauptamt
incorporating the Gestapo (security police) SS (political police) and SD (Security service) under the command of Heinrich Himmler.

Jahnke, Kurt: Hugely experienced intelligence officer now believed to have been Klop’s secret source within the
Sicherheitsdienst
.

John, Otto: Lufthansa lawyer involved in the resistance movement and the July 10 plot against Hitler. Defected to Britain 1944. Cold War head of German intelligence section, defected behind the Iron Curtain and back again.

Jung, Edgar: Anti-Hitler propagandist murdered during Night of the Long Knives, close friend of Klop’s contact Franz Mariaux.

Jünger, Ernst: Writer and philosopher, served with Hans Speidel in Paris during WWII.

Kaltenbrunner, Ernst: Director of RSHA under Himmler.

Kauder, Richard: Austrian behind the Max Klatt spy ring.

Klatt, Max: WWII spy network based in Bulgaria, later discovered to be a Russian double cross operation.

Kuczynski: See under Britain.

Louis Ferdinand, Prince: Grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II and supporter of German resistance to Hitler.

Malzan, Ago von: Head of eastern department of the German Foreign Office. Sponsored Klop’s 1920 visit to Russian.

Mariaux, Franz: Journalist contact of Klop’s in Lisbon, linked to conservative political opposition to Hitler.

Max von Hohenlohe, Prince: Peripatetic German agent and peace-broker.

Oster, General Hans: Nazi-hating deputy head of the Abwehr executed for his part in the 20 July 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler.

Putlitz, Wolfgang zu: Aristocrat and diplomat, Klop’s best pre-war source.

Rathenau, Walther: German Foreign Minister in 1922, assassinated in right-wing plot soon after signing the Treaty of Rapallo.

Ribbentrop, Joachim von: Ambassador in London 1936-1938, Foreign Minister 1938-1945.

Roessler, Rudolf: German exile in Switzerland, principal source of intelligence for the Soviet
Rote Drei
network.