ESPIONAGE: NOT-SO-SECRET SERVICE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70B00338R000300220012-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 17, 2007
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: October 30, 1967
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

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ESPIONAGE:
Not-So-Secret Service
Ian Fleming, for one, simply didn't
care who knew. "M," he boldly told his
readers, was none other than Admiral Sir
Miles Messeivy. And the British intelli-
gence chief, lie added, worked out of 44
Kensington Cloisters, a mansion that once
served as the headquarters for the Em-
l pire League for Noise Abatement.
Messervy, of course, was pure fiction.
But until last week, that was the closest
the general public ever cane to learning
the identity of Britain's top spy. All that
. changed dramatically, however, when
ish tradition, published the names of the
men who really run the British intelli-
gence community-and, in one swoop,
converted England's vaunted spy organi-
zation Into a not-so-secret service.
The chief of M.I.6 (the secret serv-
ice), according to the Post article, is Sir
Dick Goldsmith White, 60, an experi-
enced intelligence officer who helped
organize the Resistance groups in Europe
during World War II. His office is at 21
Queen Anne's Gate (telephone number:
WHltehall 2730), just around the corner
from M.I.B's main building at 54 Broad-
way. The boss of M.I.5 (the counter-
espionage organization), the magazine
continued, is Edward M. Furnival-Jones,
a Cambridge graduate who appeared in
this year's honors list as "Jones, Edward
Martin Furnival, attached Ministry of
Defense." Funival-Jones, it seems, di-
rects England's equivalent of the FBI
from an unmarked building called Lecon-
field House on Curzon Street. And just
to prove that it really knew what it was
talking about, the Post added that there
was no such thing as "M." Since 1910, it
claimed, when a commander in the. Roy-
al Navy named Sir Mansfield Cumming
was appointed as the first head of M.I.6,
its boss has always been known as "C."
Philby Saga: The Post's disclosures
(which were icked up by the London
Daily Express only added to the spy
mania sweeping England. Last week,.
The Sunday Times contributed another
installment to the running saga of dou-
ble-an.-ii, H.A.R. (Kim) Philby, the sen-
ior Biiusil intelligence chief who defect-
ed t ..Iv U.S.S.R. in 1983. Philby, the
paper Planned, betrayed a British-Amer-
ican .,an to send guerrillas into Alba-
nia in 1950 to overthrow the Communist
government there. The guerrilla bands,
The Tines said, slipped into Albania
from Greece, only to find the Commu-
nists waiting. Half of the 300 guerrillas
*In a serialization of "The Espionage Establish-
ment" By David Wise and Thomas B. Ross. 309
pages. Random House. $3.93.
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Spy headquarters: Lcconfield House
and 21 Queen. Anne's Gate (right)
were killed or captured, and the anti-
Communist uprising died on the vine.
Predictably, the latest adventure of
super-spy Philby touched off another
round of criticism of England's secret
service. "These hair-raising reminiscences
have shown British intelligence in a light
which makes the Keystone Co s by cam-
i
parlson look like a deadly effic
ent force,"
sneered The London Evening News.
"These disclosures are completely irre-
sponsible, sniffed one former intelli-
gence officer. "C" (whom one CIA man
calls "the most coldly efficient intelli-
gence 'boss in the game") remained just'
as unflappable as ever; he contented
number at 21 Queen Anne's Gate.