The Defence of the Realm (222 page)

vetting:

introduction of
380
–
2
;

Purge Procedure
381
–
3
,
393
,
395
,
400
,
402
,
858
;

‘Industrial Purge'
383
,
389
;

negative vetting
383
,
389
,
390
,
681
;

positive vetting
387
–
8
,
391
–
7
,
493
;

of homosexuals
398
–
9
;

numbers of inquiries
607
,
681
,
752
;

review of procedures
751
–
2
;

decline in proportion of subversives detected
780

VIPER investigation (1942)
275

Vivian, Valentine
135
,
174
,
182
,
254
,
263
–
5
,
267
–
8
,
281

Volkov, Konstantin Dmitrievich
341
,
342
–
3
,
517

Voronin, Yuri Nikolayevich
571
,
574

VOSTOK, Operation
605

W Board (Wireless Board)
255
,
283

Waddell, J. H.
547
,
552

Walden, George
551
,
566
,
572

Walker, Sir Patrick:

appointment as DG (1987)
56
,
561
,
563
,
682
;

on Howard Smith
555
;

background
560
;

early Security Service career
560
,
561
;

and Northern Irish counterterrorist operations
699
,
700
,
734
,
739
,
751
,
772
;

and interational terrorism
702
,
734
,
736
,
745
,
773
;

selection of Stella Rimington as successor
774
;

retirement
774
;

appearance on
Desert Island Discs
vetoed
778
;

strategic review
779
–
80

Wallace, Colin
641

War Book, Government
194
,
404
,
406
,
859

War Office:

and establishment of Secret Service Bureau
4
–
6
,
21
,
23
,
25
–
6
,
28
;

Intelligence Department (ID)
5
,
11
,
56
,
82
;

MO2
5
,
6
;

MO
35
,
6
;

MO5
6
–
8
,
11
–
12
;

and pre-First World War German espionage
10
–
12
,
13
,
15
,
19
–
20
,
23
,
30
–
31
,
41
;

MO
964
;

and Double-Cross System
73
;

MI(B)
125
;

Security Service ceases to be section of
130
;

economy measures
217
–
18
;

see also
MO5(g)

Ward, Stephen
495
–
7
,
498
–
9

Warner, Sir Gerry
773
,
785

Washington DC
93
,
105
,
376
–
7
,
422
–
4
;

see also
September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks

Weimar Republic
186
–
90
,
198
,
852
–
3

Weisband, William
375
–
6
,
377

Weldsmith, Catherine
see
Morgan-Smith, Catherine

West Germany (German Federal Republic)
490
,
575
,
608
,
612
,
747
;

PIRA attacks on British army bases
650
,
651
,
696
,
748

White, Sir Dick:

on Liddell
131
;

background and character
135
,
136
,
320
,
324
,
483
,
547
,
789
;

recruited by MI5 (1934)
135
–
6
,
508
;

and Ustinov
196
;

and Italian invasion of Albania
208
;

wartime recruitment
219
–
20
,
238
,
255
;

on Petrie
237
;

and The Hague SIS mission
242
,
243
,
244
;

on penetration of Abwehr
249
;

on screening of refugees
251
;

on Blunt
269
–
70
;

and Churchill
289
,
293
;

on Sillitoe
321
,
323
;

appointed DG
323
–
4
,
325
,
447
,
779
;

moved to SIS
325
–
6
,
483
,
763
–
4
;

and Cuban Missile Crisis
327
;

on ASIO
370
;

and VENONA project
378
,
433
–
4
;

and atom spies
384
;

and Burgess and Maclean's defection
426
–
7
;

and Philby case
430
,
433
–
4
,
436
;

disbanding of Overseas Service
447
;

refuses post in Malaya
449
;

relations with Macmillan and Heath
483
,
493
,
500
,
547
;

and Blake case
489
,
491
;

and Profumo affair
500
;

Hollis and Mitchell
505
,
509
,
511
;

and Sino-Soviet split deception theory
513
;

and Wilson government
523

Whitelaw, William ‘Willie':

and appointment of Jones as DG
555
;

Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
620
,
621
,
623
;

Home Secretary
670
,
677
,
709
;

and industrial unrest
598
670
,
671
,
672
;

and Iranian embassy siege
685
,
686
,
687

Whitmore, Sir Clive
773
,
774

Whytock, Roslyn
74
–
5
,
106

Wigg, George
522
–
5
,
526
,
528
–
31
,
532
,
534
,
536
,
633

Wilhelm II, Kaiser
5
,
6
,
32
,
51
–
2
,
162
,
861

Williams, Marcia
528
,
531
,
533
,
534
,
632
–
3
,
634
,
636
,
637
,
639
,
642

Wilson, Harold:

early political career
412
,
416
;

Security Service file on
416
,
526
,
632
;

contacts with Soviet Union
416
–
19
;

and KGB
417
,
418
–
19
;

becomes PM
419
,
522
–
3
;

and Aden Emergency
475
;

policy in British Guiana
480
;

and Hollis and Mitchell
518
,
519
,
634
;

and Wigg
522
–
4
,
536
,
633
;

paranoia about plots and bugging
524
,
526
,
532
,
552
,
632
–
3
,
635
–
6
,
637
–
8
,
642
,
754
;

and tapping of MPs' telephones
526
–
7
,
542
;

and intelligence on industrial subversion
527
,
534
,
535
,
854
;

and seamen's strike
527
–
31
,
588
,
598
,
854
;

D-Notice affair
531
–
2
;

and Thorpe affair
533
,
534
,
535
–
7
,
539
,
541
–
2
;

and Blake escape and defection
538
;

and Floud case
539
;

and Owen case
542
–
3
;

and Northern Ireland
625
,
626
,
644
,
654
;

returned to power in 1974
625
,
627
;

disreputable business friends
627
–
32
,
638
–
9
;

growing suspicions of Security Service
632
–
5
;

alleged conspiracy to overthrow
635
–
43
,
765
;

mental and physical decline
637
;

resignation
638
–
9
,
640
;

Governance of Britain
754

Wilson, Sir Horace
202
,
206
,
227

Wilson, Sir Richard
608
,
778
,
789
,
790
,
792
,
793
,
809
,
810
,
815

Wilson, Woodrow
75
,
139

WINDSOR, Operation
460
–
61

Windsor, Roger
677
–
8

Winn, Sir Rodger
410
,
500

Winnick, David
758
,
765

Winnifrith, Sir John
387
,
391
,
393

Winterborn, Hugh
486
,
508
–
9

Wireless Board (W Board)
255
,
283

Wiseman, Sir William
105
,
106

Wolfenden Committee (1957)
398
,
399

Wolkoff, Anna
224
–
6
,
230

women:

recruitment of
59
–
60
,
122
,
127
,
133
,
220
–
21
,
336
–
7
,
774
;

Registry staff
60
–
62
,
336
–
7
;

secretaries
61
–
3
;

clothing regulations
218
;

promotion of
220
–
21
,
325
,
332
,
549
–
51
;

advice to women on overseas postings
331
;

surveillance roles
337
–
8
;

guidelines on interrogation of
451
;

as agent-runners
550
–
51
,
708
;

women peace protesters
673
–
4
;

Stella Rimington as first woman branch director and DG
746
,
774

Woollcombe, Malcolm ‘Woolly'
151
,
203

Woolwich Arsenal spy-ring
167
,
181
–
2
,
183
,
854

World in Action
(television programme)
663
,
761
;

‘Death on the Rock' documentary
743
,
744
–
5

World Disarmament Campaign
674

Wright, Peter:

allegations against Hollis
282
,
348
,
349
,
434
–
5
,
510
–
12
,
518
,
519
,
760
,
761
,
763
;

damage caused by his conspiracy theories
282
,
348
,
439
,
507
,
511
,
519
;

interrogation of Blunt
282
,
439
,
520
;

on Denman
334
;

background, recruitment and Security Service career
335
–
6
,
507
,
760
,
789
;

on Philby case
432
;

imagined view of KGB sophistication
434
–
5
,
860
–
51
;

and Portland spy-ring
486
;

collaboration with Martin
504
,
507
,
510
;

and Golitsyn
504
,
507
,
511
;

and investigation of Mitchell
507
,
508
–
9
,
519
;

chair of FLUENCY working party
510
–
12
,
513
;