TRIPLEX: Secrets from the Cambridge Spies
Nigel West
Language: English
Pages: 384
ISBN: 0300123477
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
TRIPLEX reveals more clearly than ever before the precise nature and extent of the damage done to the much-vaunted British intelligence establishment during World War II by the notorious “Cambridge Five” spy ring—Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross. The code word TRIPLEX refers to an exceptionally sensitive intelligence source, one of the most closely guarded secrets of the war, which appears nowhere in any of the British government’s official histories. TRIPLEX was material extracted illicitly from the diplomatic pouches of neutral missions in wartime London. MI5, the British Security Service, entrusted the job of overseeing the highly secret assignment to Anthony Blunt, who was already working for the NKVD, Stalin’s intelligence service. The rest is history, documented here for the first time in rich detail.
avoid a scandal. Switzerland orange has agreed to stay in the diplomatic service as we proposed and will, of course, be mostly in England, although he may have to go back to Switzerland for a couple of years during the next five years. His connections to other diplomats in London and his political intelligence should supply us with extremely valuable information in regard to international intrigues in England after the war. If, for example, a peace conference were to be held in London, he would be
intelligence on the massive scale of Germany’s rearmament. In March 1936, against the advice of his generals, Hitler ordered the reoccupation of the Rhineland. Information received by MI5—in particular, intercepted correspondence of the Nazi Party in the UK—showed that he had been influenced by communications from the AO in London, including messages from leaders of the German Chamber of Commerce, who forecast that if Germany were to take such a step, the British government would not resort to
reported that Moscow was in no position to come to Czechoslovakia’s assistance. His message reinforced Hitler’s opinion. There were grounds for supposing that in the opinion of the Reichswehr, and especially the Intelligence Department of the German General Sta√, war was inevitable and that in this respect Hitler sided with Ribbentrop, Himmler and π≠ Anthony Blunt’s MI∑ Documents [ Joseph] Goebbels. There was a serious di√erence of view between Ribbentrop and Goering. The Reichswehr thought
idea of the factors that may be encountered during or after the cessation of hostilities. DD/SP 13 November 1944 ∞≥ Section IX Personnel Letter no. 4 of 16 July 1945 Herewith CVs from stanley on the o≈cers of SIS’s Section IX: 1. Assistant head of section Lieutenant Colonel Rodney O. Dennys. Dennys joined SIS in 1938. He was Section V’s head of station in The Hague and worked in Section V after the evacuation from Holland. At the end of 1941 he was posted as Section V’s head of station to Cairo,
suggest that the USSR intends to turn London into the clearinghouse for its international trade. Comment by XS/F: Agreed. But judging from past experience, the Soviet government will be able to conduct its business in London only by using several organisations in parallel. These organisations sometimes show signs of being jealous of one another, which can create openings for us. Comment by V1/C: XS/F is quite right to point this out. I shall revert to it later. ∞≤∂ Kim Philby’s SIS Documents