Open Secret

INDEX

Aden, 48

Caledonia, RMS, 47-8

Afghanistan, 66-8

Cambridge University: spy ring, 83, 99-90, 110

Agra, 49

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND):

Allen, Alex, 174

communists attempt to influence, 101,

Alwyne Place, Islington, 104

113; counter-subversion against, 112; SR

Alwyne Villas, Islington, 117, 142

accused of investigating and undermining,

Ames, Aldrich, 101

113

Amin, Idi, 171-2

Canada, 143

Amis, (Sir) Kingsley: Lucky Jim, 33

Canonbury Grove, Islington, 83. 104

Amritsar massacre (1919), 50

Carew Hunt, R.: The Theory and Practice of

Angleton, James, 80, 143-4

Communism, 79

Ann (London flatmate), 41-2

CAZAB link, 143-4

Apprentice Boys (Northern Ireland), 82

Cecilia, Sister, 25

Archer, Mildred, 43

Christie, Linford, 166

Archer, William George, 43

Churchill, Sir Winston, 73, 143-4

Armstrong, Robert ( later Baron), 116, 126

City of London see London Civil Rights Movement

Asquith, Herbert Henry ( later 1st Earl), 71

(Northern Ireland), 82

Attlee, Clement ( later 1st Earl), 74, 76

Civil Service Selection Board (CSSB), 124

Australia, 143-4

Clarke, Kenneth, 151, 171

Clarke, Margaret, 37

Bakatin, Vadim V., 157, 158-9

Cold War, 57, 73, 80, 93, 101, 102-3, 143; ends,

Barrow-in-Furness, 20-1, 23-4

155-7, 160

BBC World Service, 184

Comac (company), 70, 84

Beeching, Richard ( later Baron), 41

Committee of Imperial Defence, 71

Belfast: disorder in, 82

Commonwealth Security Conferences, 172

Berlin: intelligence activities in, 102

Communism: MI5 intelligence on, 73-4, 76;

Bettaney, Michael, 119-20, 152,

subversive activities, 112-3; and end of

BG plc: SR serves on Board of, 159

Cold War, 155-6

Blair, Cherie, 164

Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), 73-4,

Blunt, Anthony, 79, 89

76-7, 79, 94, 113

Bombay, 48

Cook, Peter, 42

Borromeo, Sister, 24

Costanzo, Sam, 70

Braithwaite, Sir Rodric, 157

Crosslands Convent, Furness Abbey, 24

Brenda (archivist), 37

Cuban missile crisis (1962), 45

Brewster, Ernie, 42

Cumming, Captain Mansfield, RN (‘C’), 71

Bridge, Nigel Cyprian, Baron Bridge of Harwich,

Curzon Street House, London, 111, 141

115

Brighton: IRA bomb in (1984), 150

D-Day: misinformation on, 73

Brussels, 94-8, 153

De La Rue Company, 177

Bulganin, Nikolai, 34

Dench, Dame Judi, 163

Bulgarian Secret Service, 142

Denning Report (on Profumo Affair), 43, 54, 128

Burke, Edmund, 171

Desai, Moraji, 53

Butler, Sir Robin ( later Baron), 170

Devlin, Bernadette ( later McAliskey), 82

Dimbleby Lecture (1994), 170

Cabinet Office: SR’s dealings with, 115-6;

Directorate of Military Intelligence, 72

Intelligence Coordinator, 154; vets SR’s

Dobson, Frank, 114

book, 183

Docklands (London): IRA bomb, 173, 177

Cadbury Committee on Financial Aspects of

Dominic, Sister, 24

Corporate Government (1992), 180

‘Double Cross’ Operation, 73

Cairncross, John, 89-90

Downing Street (No.10): mortar bomb attack on,

Hattersley, Roy ( later Baron), 260

150

Heads of Commonwealth Security Services, 171

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan: His Last Bow, 72

Heath, (Sir) Edward, 94

Duff, Sir Antony, 120, 121-2, 126, 129, 131, 141,

Henderson, Miss (Worcestershire archivist), 37

154

Hollis, Sir Roger, 80, 89, 165

Dunkirk evacuation (1940), 19, 20

Holstein (of Peacock Hotel, Leith), 72

Dyer, Brigadier-General Reginald Edward Harry,

Home Affairs Select Committee (parliamentary),

50

170-1

Dzerzhinsky, Felix, 158

Home Office: security responsibilities, 54;

recommends MI5 take responsibility for

eavesdropping, 129; see also telephone-tapping

counter-terrorist intelligence, 150; and

Edinburgh University, 30, 32-3, 34-5

MI5’s openness policy, 169; and business

Elizabeth II. H.M. The Queen: SR attends lunch

planning, 179

with, 166

Home Secretaries: relations with MI5, 114-5, 127,

Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 176-7

170, 181

Establishment Club, London, 42

Howard, Michael, 127, 169, 173, 174

European Convention, 129-30

Hurd, Douglas ( later Baron), 112, 127, 157, 174

European Heads of Services, 171

Hussey, Marmaduke ( later Baron), 114, 174

European Union ( formerly EEC): British

referendum on membership, 95; see also

Ilkeston, 25, 32; Grammar School, 26

Brussels

‘illegals’, 124

Independent (newspaper), 165

Falklands War (1982), 109

India: SR and John move to (1965), 45, 46-9; war

Farrell, Terence, 155

with Pakistan, 47, 49-50; border conflicts,

Faux, Julian, 152

49; hippies in, 51; diplomatic protocol in,

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 173

52-3; international struggle for influence

Fergusson, Sir Ewen, 95

in, 56; SR and John leave (1969), 68-9

Feydeau, Georges: Hotel Paradiso, 55

India Office Library, 40, 42-3, 47

‘Fifth Man, the’, 90

Information Research Department (IRD), India, 66

Foot, Operation, 100

Ingatestone, Essex, 19

Foreign Office: attitude to wives, 96-7; and

Institute of Cancer Research, 114

exclusion policy, 101

Intelligence and Security Committee

France: SR studies language in, 152

(parliamentary), 171

FSB (Russian intelligence service), 160

Intelligence Services Act (1994), 171

Interception of Communications Act (IOCA, 1985),

Gandhi, Indira, 49, 56

115, 129

GCHQ (Government Communication

IRA (Irish Republican Army): mainland bombing

Headquarters): role and responsibilities,

campaign, 95, 172, 173, 177; see also

73; intelligence leakage, 102; legislation

Provisional IRA

on, 130

Iran, 146

General Election (1992), 171

Iraq, 146

General Election exercise, 115

Islington Gazette, 164

Germany: pre-1914 spying in Britain, 71-2; in

ITN (Independent Television News), 169

World War II, 73; Provisional IRA

terrorism in, 131, 148

James, Elizabeth Margaret, Lady, 53

Ghosh, Dr (Bengali poet), 42

James, Sir Morrice ( later Baron St Brides of

Gibraltar: operation in, 144-5

Hasguard), 53

Gigou, Elizabeth, 164

Jenkins, Roy, Baron, 127

Gillmore, Sir David ( later Baron), 170

Jenkins, Simon, 168

Goa, 52

Johnson, Lyndon B., 67

Gorbachev, Mikhail, 101, 157

Joint Intelligence Committee, 120, 149

Gordievsky, Oleg, 90, 102, 119

Jones, Sir John, 115

Government Communication Headquarters see

Justice, James Robertson, 32

GCHQ

Gower Street, London, 111, 141, 153

Kabul, 66, 68

Griffith, Kenneth, 104

Kampala, Uganda, 171

Grosvenor Street, London, 83

Kashmir, 47, 52

Kazakhstan, 159

Hanley, Sir Michael, 88, 153

Keeler, Christine, 43, 128

Hardy, Jean, 28, 34

Kell, Captain Vernon (‘K’), 71-3, 124, 163

Kennedy, John F., 45

training and early duties in, 77-9; use of

Kerala (India), 56

‘agents’, 77, 81; fear of infiltration, 79-80;

KGB: recruits agents in Britain, 83, 90, 93, 102;

personnel and management, 80-1, 121-2,

Peter Wright lectures on, 89; activities

154, 178; counter-terrorist activities, 83,

abroad, 101; SR visits in Moscow after

111, 130-1, 144-5, 148-50, 168, 172-3;

end of Cold War, 157-60; revives after

recruitment changes, 90, 123-4, 132; SR

Bakatin’s retirement, 159

resumes career with after Brussels

Khrushchev, Nikita S., 34

absence, 100; co-operation with MI6 in

Khyber Pass, 66-8

agent-running, 102, 106; SR attends agent-

Kipling, Rudyard: Kim, 66

running course, 105; runs long-term

double agent operations, 108-14; women

Labour Party: and subversive activities, 112

used for agent-running, 110; moves into

Lake District, 25

Thames House, 113, 141, 154-5; denies

Lander, Sir Stephen, 184

being subject to political direction, 114;

Langdon, J. and Sons, Liverpool, 27

Home Secretaries’ relations with, 114-5,

le Carré, John, 101; Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, 71

127, 170, 181; relations with Whitehall,

Leconfield House, Curzon Street, 76-7, 82-3

116-7, 131; crises in, 118-9, 125; Staff

Libya, 146

Counsellor appointed, 119-20;

Lille, 152-3

surveillance officers in, 123;

Lipton, (Sir) Stuart, 155

‘whistleblowers’ in, 125; Director-

Liverpool: SR studies archive administration in,

General’s direct access to Prime Minister,

35-6

128; subject to Tribunal examination and

Lockerbie: air disaster (1988), 148-9

oversight, 132; co-operation with US and

London: SR moves to (1961), 40-1; IRA bombs in,

Commonwealth services, 143-4; relations

150, 173, 177

with Metropolitan Police Special Branch,

Londonderry, 82

149-50, 172; resource management, 153-4,

Lonsdale, Gordon, 89

167-8; and end of Cold War, 155; SR

Lucknow, 56

appointed Director-General, 162-3, 167;

institutional changes and openness, 167,

‘M’ (intelligence officer), 71-2

168-9; public and media perceptions of,

Macdonald, Ian, 109

168; booklet published, 168-9; SR retires

Maclean, Donald, 35, 79, 83

from, 175, 176

Macmillan, Harold ( later 1st Earl of Stockton), 165

MI6 (Secret Intelligence Service): in Delhi, 55, 56;

Macmurray, John, 32

origins, 71; role, 73; jointly runs agents

mail interception, 115, 129

with MI5, 102,106; occupies Century

Maitland, Sir Donald, 53

House, 155; and end of Cold War, 155-6

Maitland, Jean Marie, Lady, 97

Middlesbrough, 23

Major, John, 128, 150, 154, 173-4; Autobiography,

Militant Tendency, 112

172

Milner-Barry, (Sir) Stuart, 53

Manchester: bombed (1996), 173

Miners’ Strike (1984), 94, 112, 113-4

Margaretting, Essex, 19-21

Morning Star (newspaper), 77

Markov, Georgi, 142

Moscow: SR visits (1991), 157-60

Massiter, Cathy, 119

Mull of Kintyre: helicopter crash (1994), 121, 174-

Melville, William (‘M’), 71-2

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Members of Parliament: security information on,

Mullin, Chris, 171

115

Munich Olympics (1972), 146

Metropolitan Police Special Branch (MPSB), 149-

Murrell, Hilda, 113

50, 172

MI5 (The Security Service): SR recruited to in

NACODS (union of mining deputies), 113

India, 54-6, 57; duties in India, 56;

Nancy (child-minder), 85-6

interviews and appoints SR in London, 70-

Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 34

1, 75-6; origins and history, 71-3; in

National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), 113-4

Second World War, 73; and communist

Nepal, 51

subversion, 73-4, 112, 113-4; legislation

New Delhi, 45, 48-53, 157

governing, 73, 112, 115, 129-31, 132, 170;

New Statesman (journal), 118, 142, 164

staff and strength, 73; vetting function, 74,

New Zealand: Intelligence Oversight Committee,

76; status of women in, 75, 77, 78, 80-1,

131; cooperation with MI5, 143-4; SR in,

90-1, 92, 94, 106, 110, 124, 131-2, 167;

173

jargon and code words, 77; organisation

Non-Executive Directors: function, 180-1

and working practices, 77-80; SR’s

Northern Ireland: and Chinook helicopter crash

Rimington, John: SR first meets, 29-30; SR re-

(1994), 120, 175; and terrorism, 149-50,

encounters in Edinburgh, 34; courtship

172; see also IRA; Provisional IRA

and engagement, 39-41; marriage to SR,

Norway: forbids eavesdropping, 131

42, 43-4; career, 44-5, 84, 85, 100, 105,

Nottingham Evening Post, 27

168; posted to New Delhi, 45; life and

Nottingham Girls’ High School, 26, 27-9

work in India, 52, 53-4, 57; on SR’s

Nunkhu Ram, 50

recruitment into MI5, 54; on trip to

Afghanistan, 67-8; returns from India, 68-

Observer (newspaper), 127

70; invited to join Comac company, 70;

Official Secrets Act, 183, 120, 130

posted to EEC in Brussels (1974), 94, 95-

Osborne, John: Look Back in Anger, 33

6, 98; marriage relations, 98, 104, 108,

114; returns from Brussels, 104; works on

Pakistan: war with India, 47, 49-50

mining safety during 1984 miners’ strike,

PanAm 103 aircraft, 148

113-4; and Frank Dobson, 114; SR

Paris: SR works as au pair in, 31-2; SR visits to

separates from, 117; reveals home address,

interview, 92

118; on SR’s appointment as Director-

Parrott, Elizabeth Jane (SR’s maternal

General of MI5, 163

grandmother), 21

Rimington, Rosamund (John’s sister), 47

Parrott, Lilian (SR’s aunt), 26-7

Rimington, Sophie (SR’s daughter): birth and

Parsons (US businessman), 70, 84

childhood, 84-7, 95; attends Flemish

Peshawar, 66

school, 97-8; interrupts burglar, 100;

Philby, Kim, 79, 89, 92, 101

involvement in mother’s activities, 142;

Pipavit (village, India), 51

education, 142-3, 152, 163; and

Poland, 161

announcement of SR’s appointment as

police: role in counter-terrorism, 149; see also

Director-General of MI5, 162-3; friends

Metropolitan Police Special Branch;

questioned by police, 165-6; harassed by

Royal Ulster Constabulary

press, 166

Port Said, 47-8

Rimington, Dame Stella: childhood wartime

Portland spy ring, 89

memories, 19-23; early schooling, 21, 24-

Potsdam, 161

5; loses pet dog, 23; at Nottingham Girls’

Pretty, Winifred, 27-8, 30

High School, 26, 27-9; attends Edinburgh

Primakov, Yevgeni, 160

University, 30, 32-5; glandular fever, 34;

Prime, Geoffrey, 102

graduates and studies archive

Private Eye (magazine), 171

administration, 35-6; post with

Profumo, John, 43, 54, 128

Worcestershire County Record Office, 36-

Provisional IRA (PIRA): counter-intelligence on,

9; acquires first car, 39; engagement to

110, 150; killing campaign against British

John, 40; works at India Office Library,

servicemen in Germany, 131, 148;

40, 42-3, 47; marriage to John, 42, 43-4;

bombing campaign, 142, 173, 177; in

claustrophobia and migraines, 44, 46;

Gibraltar operation, 144-5; and SR’s

moves to New Delhi, 45, 47; domestic and

appointment to Director-General of MI5,

social life in Delhi, 50, 51-3, 55-6, 66;

162, 164-5; intelligence on, 172-3; see

teaches English in India, 50-1; recruited

also IRA

into MI5 in Delhi, 54-6, 57; amateur

dramatics, 55-6, 181; returns from India

Ranson, David, 115, 152

(1969), 68-70; claustrophobia disappears,

Ravenshead, Nottinghamshire, 43

70; MI5 interviews and appoints in

Red Army Faction (Germany), 146

London, 70-1, 75-6; early training and

Red Brigades (Italy), 146

duties in MI5, 77-9, 80-1; buys houses in

Rees, Merlyn ( later Baron Merlyn-Rees), 127

Islington, 83, 104, 117-8; pregnancies and

‘residencies’, 100-1

children, 83, 85-7, 92, 94, 95-7; views on

Rimington, Harriet (SR’s daughter): birth, 96;

women’s rights, 85; promoted to officer

suffers convulsions, 107-8; involvement in

status in MI5, 91-2; marriage relations, 98,

mother’s activities, 142; education, 142-3;

104, 108, 114; employs nannies and au

and SR’s absence in France, 152, and

pairs, 99-100, 108; house burgled, 99-100;

announcement of SR’s appointment as

fractures skull and suffers haematoma,

Director-General of MI5, 162-3; life

104; attends MI5 agent-running course,

disrupted by SR’s press harassment, 165-

105; makes first contact with foreign

6; moves house with SR after retirement,

intelligence source, 105-6; operates in

176

agent recruitment, 106-8, 110; promoted

Assistant Director of counter-subversion

section, 111-2; on Marsden Trust, 114;

intelligence on, 83, 102, 143; recruits

management methods, 115-6; as Director

British agents, 93; residencies and

of Counter-terrorism, 116, 145-6, 148-9;

intelligence activities in UK, 100-2;

applies for Headship of Roedean school,

British exclusion policy on intelligence

117; separates from John, 117; press

agents, 101; dissolved, 155, 157; see also

interest in, 118; social life restrictions,

KGB; Moscow

120; made acting Director for counter-

Special Branch see Metropolitan Police Special

subversion sections, 122; promoted

Branch

Director of Counterespionage (‘K’), 124;

Spectator (journal), 165, 169

testifies in court cases, 124-5; discussions

Stanhope Properties, 155

with Prime Minister, 128, 173-4; as

Stanton Ironworks, Ilkeston, 26, 32

Director of Counterespionage, 141-2, 143;

Steinhauer, Gustav: The Kaiser’s Master Spy , 72

appointed Deputy Director-General of

Stewart, Michael ( later Baron), 53

MI5, 152, 153, 155; studies French in

Stone (of Bank of England), 53

Lille, 152-3; contacts with ex-enemies

Stoppard, Sir Tom: Fifteen-Minute Hamlet, 181

after end of Cold War, 156; travels to

Straw, Jack, 127

Russia and Eastern Europe, 157-61; post-

subversion: defined, 112

retirement jobs in corporate/business

Suez Canal, 47-8

world, 159, 177-8; appointed Director-

Sun newspaper: announces SR’s marriage

General of MI5, 162-3, 167; media

breakdown, 163; SR’s manuscript leaked

reactions to appointment and work, 163-7,

to, 184

169-70; forced to move house after press

Sunday Times, 164-5

harassment, 164-6; delivers BBC’s

Susan (London flatmate), 41-2

Dimbleby Lecture (1994), 170; retires

Sussex, University of, 77

from MI5 (1996), 175, 176; applies for

Sutherland, Fergus, 34

Mastership of Emmanuel College,

SVR (Russian intelligence service), 160

Cambridge, 176-7; on differences between

public and private sector management,

Taj Mahal, 49

177-80

Taylor, Graham, 166

Roche, Barbara, 170

telephone-tapping, 114-5, 129

Roedean school, 117

terrorism: actions against, 83, 111, 130-1, 144-5,

Roland Gardens, South Kensington, 41, 44, 47

148-9, 152, 168, 172-3

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 144

Thames House, London: MI5 occupies and

Royal Marsden Hospital, 114

converts, 113, 141, 154-5

Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), 82, 150; Special

Thatcher, Margaret, Baroness: at Curzon Street

Branch head killed in Chinook helicopter

House, 111; and miners’ strike (1984),

disaster, 175

113-4; appoints Duff to Director-

Russia see Soviet Union Russian Intelligence

Generalship of MI5, 120; on telephone-

Residency, London, 81

tapping, 129; SR meets, 131; and Brighton

bomb (1984), 150; and control of public

St John of Fawsley, Norman St John-Stevas, Baron,

expenditure, 153; and cost of Thames

176-7

House, 155

Sandiacre, Derbyshire, 32

Thompson, Averil F., 43

Sargeant, E.H., 37-8, 39, 78, 116

Thouvenal, Dr and Madame, 31-2

Secret Service Bureau: created, 71, 72

Times, The, 170

Security Commission: enquiry into Bettaney, 120

Todd, Miss (Nottingham schoolteacher), 28, 29

Security Service Act (1989), 73, 112, 129, 130-1,

Tomlinson, Richard, 120

162, 170, 171

trade unions: Communist influence in, 94

Security Service, The see MI5

Treasury: scrutinises MI5 resource management,

Shayler, David, 120

153-4

Sheffield, HMS, 109

Turnbull, Malcolm, 126

Shipp, Cecil, 110-1

Sieff, Rebecca ( later Lady), 20

Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), 82

Sillitoe, Sir Percy: Cloak without Dagger, 184

United States of America: advisers in India, 56; co-

Snow, Jon, 169

operation with Britain over

Socialist Workers’ Party, 112

counterespionage, 143-4; and Northern

South Norwood, 19-20

Ireland, 173

Soviet Union: advisers in India, 56-7; Western

intelligence on, 73; and communist

subversion, 74, 112, 113; counter-

Venice, 68-9

Victoria (ship), 68

and SR as working mother, 85, 86.; visits

SR in Brussels, 97

Waldegrave, William, 154

Whitmore, Sir Clive, 162

Walker family (USA), 101

Wilson, Harold ( later Baron), 50, 53; Peter

Walker, Sir Patrick, 131, 144, 145

Wright’s allegations of plot against, 126-7

Wallasey, 21

Wilson, Sir Richard, 183

Walney Island, 25

Woking, 69-70

Walsingham, Sir Francis, 71

women: and unequal pay, 39; status in MI5, 75, 77,

Ward, Stephen, 43

80-1, 90-1, 92, 94, 106, 110, 124, 131-2,

Warsaw Pact countries: intelligence activities in

152, 167; as working mothers, 85-7, 99-

UK, 100-1

100; qualities as intelligence officers, 91-

Washington, DC, 104

2; as Foreign Office wives, 96-7; police

Waugh, Auberon, 165

service treatment of, 172; status on

whistleblowing, 125

corporate Boards, 179

Whitehouse, Brian (SR’s brother): childhood, 19,

Woodall-Duckhams (company), 26

21-3, 24, 26; illnesses, 20; schooling, 26;

Worcestershire County Record Office, 36-9

National Service, 34, 35; career, 35

Wright, Peter: believes Security Service penetrated,

Whitehouse, David (SR’s father): in wartime, 19;

80; Hanley removes from service, 88;

background and career, 19, 20-1, 23, 25,

interviews Cairncross, 89; and Spycatcher

32; calm during bombing, 22; character

case, 116, 125-6; disgruntlement over

and values, 23; concern over world affairs,

treatment, 120; on eavesdropping and

34; retirement, 43; sees SR off to India, 47

search operations, 129; on CAZAB link,

Whitehouse, Muriel Clare (SR’s mother; née

144

Parrott): in war, 19-20, 21; midwifery

Wroe, Donald, 49

career, 20; beliefs and values, 23; death

(1997), 23; Ilkeston home, 26; at

Yates, Dornford, 78

Ravenshead, 43; sees SR off to India, 47;