Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). 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.

What only his loyal secretary knew was that Liddell kept a secret diary during the entire war - documents hailed as the single most significant insight in to the wartime workings of the intelligence service.No intelligence buff can be without this volume and anyone interested in British twentieth century history needs it too. In those days, it would have been civil service policy for a female employee getting married to have to resign for the sake of childbearing and home, but maybe the exigences of war encouraged a more tolerant approach. Kennedy agreed to waive Kent's diplomatic immunity and on 20th May, 1940, the Special Branch raided his flat. He was thereafter briefly known for portraits of those involved in the Second World War – including many who were casualties of it – often working from photographs.

The rumour probably first appeared in David Mure’s extraordinary Last Temptation, a faux memoir in which he uses the Guy/Alice Liddell connection to concoct a veiled dramatization of Liddell’s life and career. Liddell had also been seen drinking with other suspects Philby and Anthony Blunt in a pub in Chelsea. Incidentally, a scan of various memoranda and reports written by Harker, scattered around MI5 files, shows a rather shrewd and pragmatic intelligence officer: I suspect that he may have received a poor press. Nigel West has argued: "Before Rees died in 1979 he denounced Liddell as a spy, and the disclosure that Liddell had failed to act against Anthony Blunt when Rees had first named him in 1951 created a furore that, together with his unwise friendships and his preference for homosexual company, posthumously wrecked his reputation as a shrewd intelligence professional. From many years of personal experience I know that they would have prospered because they were seen as a safe pair of hands especially if Liddell was seen as more intuitive and instinctive.Burgess, he claimed, had tried to recruit him before the war, but Rees, disillusioned after the Molotov-von Rippentrop pact, refused to continue any clandestine relationship. Washington was not keen, distinguishing between the activities of the Comintern, with which the Soviet government had consistently denied any link, and those of German Nazi and Italian Fascist political organisations which were "admittedly connected with the political parties controlling the governments of Germany and Italy respectively". Soon afterwards Wolkoff asked Joan Miller if she would use her contacts at the Italian Embassy to pass a coded letter to William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) in Germany.

He was Assistant Director of Works to the British Adriatic Commission for the relief of the Serbian Army. When war broke out, he was Assistant-Director, under Jasper Harker, of B Division, responsible for counter-intelligence and counter-espionage. The Editors at the ODNB should have shown much more caution in allowing such a book to be listed as an authoritative source without qualification. Even in 2002, fifty years later, when they were declassified, multiple passages were redacted because some events were still considered too sensitive. Indeed, in The Greatest Treason, Deacon outlined Wilkinson’s machinations behind the scenes, attributing her reservations about Liddell to what Münzenberg had personally told her about his ‘enemy in British counter-espionage’ before he was killed.Thus (for example), Churchill’s opinions on the Soviet Union’s ‘rights’ to control the Baltic States have become distorted. He joined in 1927, from the Special Branch, where he almost single handedly ran a Soviet counterespionage program. Miller also believed that Anna Wolkoff, who ran the Russian Tea Room in South Kensington, the main meeting place for members of the Right Club, was also involved in espionage.

Of course the massive job they had to do at a time when recruitment was increasing exponentially meant that mistakes were made which cost Britain dear in the post war world. Regarded by historians as the most important military intelligence documents from the whole of the Second World War.But, as Vivian explained to his colleagues in London, Liddell's own contacts had been "based on the assumption that Great Britain has clean hands, so far as the U. He was unquestionably one of the most reclusive and remarkable men of his generation, and a legend within his own organisation. But for the general or casual reader of history, there are titillating details of Liddell's relations with Anthony Blunt (later outed as a Soviet spy by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher) and J. There is not a shred of evidence behind my hypothesis that Liddell might have wooed Sissmore in the first part of 1939, but then there is not a shred of evidence that he maintained a contact in Soviet intelligence to whom he passed secrets, as has been the implication by such as Costello.