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Index
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1st Parachute Battalion 44
1st Special Air Service Brigade/Battalion 44, 57, 306
2nd Indian Division 171
3rd Indian Motor Brigade 52
4th Indian Division 37
5th Airborne Division 305
6th Division Headquarters, Cairo 58
7th Armoured Division (Desert Rats) 164
7th Division, Cyprus 88–9
9th Armoured Brigade 234, 235
9th Australian Division 95
10th Armoured Division 57, 218, 219, 220, 235
10th Royal Tank Regiment 51
11th Infantry Brigade 37, 38
11th Special Air Service Battalion 44
12th Army 267, 268, 289
18th Division 171
23rd Infantry Division 178
24th Armoured Brigade 235
38th Royal Tank Regiment 91, 110, 142
50th Division 92, 182
51st Highland Division 240
621 Radio Intercept Company 217–18, 219
X Corps 218, 219, 227, 231, 233–4, 235
XIII Corps 218, 219, 226
XXX Corps 218, 226
‘A Force’ 87–92, 103–8, 109–15, 141–2, 147–50, 191–3 Barkas and 94
beginnings 52–4, 56–7
Clarke and 81, 124–5, 131
daily messages 203
deception successes 199–200
‘A Force Strategic Addendum’ 172–3
forgery team 192
Levi and 138
MI9 and 61
Operation Cascade 170–3
‘private army’ 97, 118
sections 260–1
‘Technical Unit’ 149
work with Bletchley 290
Abwehr (German foreign intelligence service) 196–201 agents and 112, 169, 178, 196–7, 199, 253, 301
Cairo and 239
Clarke and 69, 71, 107, 132, 160
Madrid embassy 119
Middle East 67
Nicosoff and 205–7
Operation Mincemeat 281–2, 285
poor quality of 306
recruiting staff 198
sources 143, 145
Travaglio 73–4
Aden 27, 33, 36, 37–8
Africa 17, 55, 120, 268
Afrika Corps 60, 187, 195–6, 207, 216
Alam Halfa, Battle of (1942) 216, 218–21, 227, 273
Alciphron 229
Alexander, Gen Harold xvii, 213, 239, 240, 244, 279
Alexandria 38, 189, 192, 204, 205, 240
Algeria 252, 267
Algiers 269, 275, 276, 297
Alhama de Granada 24
Allenby, Edmund 25–6, 27
Almasy, Count Laszlo 200, 315–17
Aly Khan, Prince 38
‘angles’, deception and 59
Arabs 12, 43
Ariosto (steamer) 129
Armadillo, HMS (training base) 172
Army Rangers, US 48–9
Auchinleck, Gen Claude 96–8, 101–2, 139–40, 195–6 Bagnold and 160
Churchill and 137
Clarke and 103, 118, 124, 130
El Alamein 207, 217
Libya and 148
North Africa 147, 151–2
Tobruk and 187
Wavell and 143
Australia 55, 60, 110, 147, 232
Ayrton, Tony 228, 229, 232
Baden-Powell, Robert 24
Bagnold, Ralph 141–2, 149–50, 160, 306, 315
Balkans, the 61, 67, 189, 262, 282, 283, 292, 295, 296
Barkas, Maj Geoffrey 93–5, 164, 208–9, 228–9, 231, 233–5, 244, 314 Wings Over Everest 276
Basra Base Area Headquarters 171
‘Beach Jumpers’ (US deception unit) 258–9, 289
Behrendt, Hans-Otto 217–20, 234, 254
Beirut 82
Belgium 11, 156
Bell, J. Bowyer 27
Ben-Gurion, David 313
Benghazi 55
Berlin 133
‘Betty-to-You’ (Alice Sims) see Crichton, Betty
Bevan, Aneurin 188
Bevan, Lt-Col Johnny 250–2, 275–8, 290–2 Axis and 261, 270
A Force and 307
later life 313
Operation Mincemeat 282
Operation Torch 259
Bingham, Lady Barbara 251
Blenheim, Battle of (1704) 24
Bletchley Park 183–5, 206–7 Abwehr’s signals 254
Behrendt and 218
Clarke and 229
Enigma and 120
issue reports 265
Rommel message 139, 195
work with A Force 271, 290
Blitz, the 101, 111
Boer War, Second (1899–1902) 7, 12, 19, 24, 25
‘Box 563’, letters from 106, 107, 108, 119, 133
Brian false dumps (El Alamein) 233, 235
British Expeditionary Force 8
Brooke, Alan 144–5
bubonic plague 87
Buchan, John, Greenmantle 66, 83
Bulgaria 271
Burma 170, 188, 273
Burris-Meyer, Harold 258
Butcher, Harry 292
Cadogan, Sir Alexander 123, 124, 125, 126, 134
Cairo xv–xix, 87–8, 109–15, 137–9, 163–7, 190–3 Abwehr and 74, 239
city of 3, 59–60
Clarke in 6, 20, 118, 142–4
Fellers in 181–5
Maunsell in 34–5
Rommel and 65
camera deception 29, 35, 96
camouflage 93–5, 231–5 artists 138, 143
Bagnold and 150
double-bluffs 267–8
Experimental Unit 164
A Force and 208–9
Tobruk 155
Canada 102
Canaris, Adm Wilhelm 197, 198, 199
Caucasus, the 101, 119, 137, 143, 170, 227
Chamberlain, Neville 18
channels, misinformation 65–71, 103–8
Charterhouse 5
‘Cheese’ network 109–11, 137–8, 143–4, 203–5, 253–4, 289 Barkas and 229
credibility of 79, 175, 176
‘Gauleiter of Mannheim’ 322
reviving 197, 207–8
Simpson and 239
total messages 316
viewed as suspect 200
Chiefs of Staff Committee 117–18
China 23
Cholmondeley, Charles 273–5, 279, 282
Churchill, Winston 244–5, 307–8 Auchinleck and 96, 97, 215
Bevan and 251
Boer War and 12
chiefs of staff and 310
Clarke’s arrest 126, 133
de Guingand and 215
on defeat at Tobruk 188
Dill and 130, 133, 144–5
Libyan troops 55, 61
Operation Mincemeat and 280
‘pinprick’ raids 14
Sicily 275
Soviets and 101, 102
swimming naked 226
Wavell and 55, 89, 96, 250
writes to Menzies 182–4
ciphers 37, 70, 78, 88, 184, 254
Clark, Gen Mark 273
Clarke, Dudley Wrangel 4–9, 81–3 aide to Dill 11–12
Alexander on xvii
in Algiers 297
arrested in Madrid 120, 121–7
Auchinleck and 118
back to Cairo 139, 142
becomes a colonel 160
Bevan and 254–5, 290
Bletchley and 290
Chiefs of Staff Committee 117–18
Constantinople adventure 65–6
creates guerilla force 191–2, 196
cross-dressing 120, 122–3, 130–1, 132, 134
Cyprus and 87–92, 144
deception machine 244–5
diarist 133–4
Fairbanks and 259
filmmaker 29, 304
‘German spy’ 106–7
in Gibraltar 124, 125, 129–30
hit by torpedo on Ariosto 129
illness 52
Imperial Defence College lecture (1946) 303, 307
‘journalist’ 4, 7, 65, 68, 104, 122, 132
later life 317–19
Liddell and 111–12, 125–6, 132, 133
Lisbon channels 103–8
magician 28
MI9 53–4
Montgomery and 214, 225–7
North Africa 152–6
Operation Barclay 265–71
Operation Camilla 33–9
Operation Cascade 170–3
Operation Mincemeat 276–7, 284–5
photographic memory 83
Plan Abeam 41–7
‘Plan Anti-Rommel’ 56–62, 65
press and 268–9
recruits 163–5
remains in Egypt 191–3
setting up misinformation channels 65–71
Shearer and 110
Strangeways and 260
US Legion of Merit xviii
War Cabinet and 113–15
in Washington 257
Wavell and 18–22, 26–7, 33–9
writing limericks 206
Golden Arrow 317–18
Secret Weapon 304
Clarke, Ernest (father) 4–5, 6, 13
Clarke, Sidney W. (uncle) 28, 59, 231, 268
Clarke, Thomas (brother) 29, 304
Clifford, Alexander 269
Clifford, Miles 300, 301
Combined Operations 14
Commandos, the 12–15, 41–7, 57, 111, 175, 258
communications, modern-day 309
Constantinople 65–6
Cooper, Duff 284
Corsica 266, 267, 276, 282
Cossack, HMS 129
Coventry Cathedral 314
Crete 57, 87 used in deception 148, 154, 228, 240, 244, 253, 276, 289
Crichton, Betty 164–5, 191–2, 193, 196, 257, 302, 313
Crichton, Michael 164–5, 191–2, 196, 242–3, 257, 260, 302, 313
Cyprus 52, 65, 87–92, 144, 310
Cyrenaica 57, 60, 92, 143, 147, 151, 227, 268
D-Day 270, 290–1
‘dazzle paint’, ships’ 25
de Guingand, Brig Freddie 215, 228–9, 241, 273
Demosthenes 151
Deuxieme Bureau (French intelligence agency) 74
Dietrich, Marlene 259
Dill, Sir John Chief of the Imperial General Staff 117, 126, 127, 129–30, 132
Churchill and 130, 133, 144–5
Clarke aide to 11–12
Wavell and 20
diplomatic corps 104
Donovan, William 48
double agents 92, 112, 119–20, 138, 169, 203, 252–3, 270–1, 277
Double-Cross network 112, 114, 119, 120, 203, 251–3, 306, 318
Dublin 8
dummy battalions 88–91
glider battalions 42, 61, 192
planes 267–8
props 231–3
tanks 91, 94, 110, 142–3, 157, 158, 169, 268, 295
Dunkirk 11
East Africa 17, 33–4
Eastwood, Sir Ralph 301
Eden, Anthony 126
Egypt 17–18, 34–5, 70, 188–91, 192–3 Clarke in 6, 37, 52
Greek soldiers 295
Levi and 138
life in 3
Maunsell and 159
Operation Condor 200–1, 315
Rommel and 98
selling information 171
troop build-ups in 228
Eighth Army 155, 187, 207, 213–16, 227, 232, 239 Headquarters 152, 227
Eisenhower, Gen Dwight 252, 271, 291, 308
El Alamein, First Battle of (July 1942) 189, 190, 195–6, 213
El Alamein, Second Battle of (Oct–Nov 1942) 217–21, 228, 243, 285
Eleventh Hussars 53, 163, 317
Ellis, Warrant Officer 77, 79, 203
Enigma machine 120, 139
Eritrea 39
Ethiopia 38, 43
Fairbanks, Douglas 258
Fairbanks, Douglas Jr 258–9
Far East 147, 182, 187–8, 256
Farouk, King 17
Fellers, Col Bonner 181–5, 190, 195, 196, 217, 241
First United States Army Group (FUSAG) 293–4, 306
First World War see Great War (1914–18)
Five Graves to Cairo (1943 film) 297
Fleming, Ian 256, 313–14, 317
Fleming, Peter 256, 273
foreign/war correspondents 68–9, 82, 90, 97, 269
France 3, 6, 18, 56, 74, 130, 252, 261–2, 270
Franco, Francisco 121
Freemasons 193
Garcia, Juan Pujol ‘Garbo’ 253, 294
Genoa 73–4
George V 27
German intelligence 58–9, 87, 104, 107–8, 113, 134 See also Abwehr
Gestapo 123, 189
Gibraltar 124, 125, 129–30, 254, 298, 300, 301
glider battalions (dummy) 42, 57, 61, 192
Godfrey, RAdm John 253, 256, 273–4
Goebbels, Joseph 282
Goldbranson, Lt-Col Carl 257, 260, 313
‘Good Source’ (Fellers) 183–5, 195, 217
Gort, Lord 130, 132, 133, 134
Gott, William 213
Great War (1914–18) 5, 19, 25, 48, 97, 130, 220
Greece Allied troops in 55, 282, 289
escape lines in 120, 189
Germans in 61, 65, 87, 151
Greek soldiers 295–6
rumours about 22, 54, 266, 279
Greenmantle (Buchan) 66, 83
Grey Pillars, Cairo 20–21, 47, 52, 141, 152, 163, 183, 190–2
Guadalcanal, Battle of (1942–43) 260
Gummer, Harry 298, 300–2
Gurmin, Trooper Michael 44–5, 47
Halfaya Pass 148–9
Hamilton Stokes, Leonard 122, 123
Hannay, Richard (Buchan character) 66, 83, 191
Harar 43
Haselden, Francis 280, 281
Hastings, Battle of (1066) 24
helicopters 42
Hess, Rudolf 70
Hitler, Adolf Balkans and 262, 296
Norway and 261
Patton and 293–4
plots against 197
rise to power 6, 17
Rommel and 55, 98, 220–1, 294
Schwerin and 107
Soviet Union and 9
strategist 54, 101, 306
Hoare, Sir Samuel 121–2, 134
homosexuality 126
Hong Kong 147
Horn of Africa 33
Houdini, Harry 171
Howard, Michael 309
Hungary 74
Hutton, John 94, 314
India 96
Information, Ministry of 58–9
innovation, war 25
Iran 188, 228, 239
Iraq 96, 137, 188
Ireland 8
Israelites 23
Istanbul 65, 67–71, 75, 155, 239
Italian intelligence 36, 45, 138, 181–2, 199–200, 271
Italy 17–18 attacks on 253
Cyprus and 144, 145
military 3, 51
Mussolini deposed 289
Operation Camilla 33–9, 43
Operation Colossus 41, 43, 44
Operation Compass 22
Tobruk 96
Wavell and 121
James, Lt M. E. Clifton 299, 300, 301, 302
Japan 59, 145, 188 agents 43, 45
in Burma 170, 273
enters war 147, 187
Port Said consul 22, 35, 37
Jewish Agency 42
Jodl, Gen Alfred 254, 305
Joint Intelligence Bureau 122
Joint Intelligence Staff 115
Jones, Capt Kenyon 75–9
Joppa, Siege of 23
K Detachment, SAS Brigade 192
Kasr-El-Nil (A Force HQ) 53, 193, 244, 318
Kenya 17, 33, 37
Lambert see ‘Cheese’
Lamerton, HMS 129
Lampson, Sir Miles 189
Lawrence of Arabia 175
Lebanon 82, 101
Lennox, Gilbert 298–9
Levi, Renato 73–9, 138–9, 176–7 double agent 109, 111, 198
imprisoned 200, 290
later life 316
Libya 17–18, 137 Auchinleck and 148
Churchill and 55, 61
LRDG in 141
Monty in 260
ports in 33
Rommel and 143, 170, 182
SAS in 57
Liddell, Guy agents and 114, 119
Clarke and 111–12, 125–6, 132, 133
deception and 137–8, 252
MI5 double agents and 144
on Monty 299
Life magazine 55
Lisbon 103–8, 155
Liss, Ulrich 218, 254
Llewellyn, Daphne 297
Lofoten Islands 111, 175
London Controlling Section (LCS) 160, 249–52, 254, 256, 262, 267, 275, 290–2, 307
Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) 141–2, 151, 165, 315
Luftwaffe 88, 91, 101, 154, 220, 255, 292
Macadam-Sherwen, Maj Dominic 157–8, 315
Madrid 119, 121–5, 131–4, 281
Mafeking, Siege of (1899–1900) 24
magicians 27–8 audiences 60, 170
deception and 157, 167
Maskelyne 95
spoon-bender 103
Teller 309
tricks 52, 170, 231, 283–4
Malta 148, 265, 267
