British Secret Service

Richard Deacon, A History of the British Secret Service (New York Taplinger Publishing Company, 1970), p. 296. 

Against this background it is therefore not surprising that the British Secret Service should have turned to Fildes for help when, in October 1941, they began to plan Operation Anthropoid. Its object the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. 

James Bond, the epic spy, is trapped in jail with little hope of escape. However, the scientific expertise within the British Secret Service has once again foreseen his unfortunate predicament. Bond pulls out his pen—gold, of course—filled with nitric acid. He squirts the iiquid on the bars that imprison him, which quickly... 

Andrew, Christopher, Secret Service The Making of the British Intelligence Community, London Heinemann, 1985. 

And as Deacon remarks, "There may even be some unofficial contacts on an intelligence level between the British and Chinese secret services." (5)... 

This combination of Pharaonic cult capabilities was taken as a model for further refinement in this century by the British Secret Intelligence Service s Tavistock Institute in London — an institution which launched the "counterculture" in the United States and Europe, based on the very... 

Kennedy s film ventures were also noteworthy for another reason. Lord Inverforth later showed up during World War II working closely with British Secret Intelligence Services chief William Stephenson ("Intrepid"). (8) The Robertson-Cole deal was Kennedy s first contact with Britain s aristocratic high command. 

Unfortunately, very little of the publicly accessible information about the SOE is reliable. It is known that the SOE was created at the personal initiative of Sir Winston Churchill as an expansion of Section D (for "Destruction") of the British Secret Intelligence Service, the branch responsible for "aggressive espionage and sabotage" against enemies of the British Empire. (19) Evidently, after World War II, the United States, in Churchill s eyes, fit the definition of "enemy. "... 

The Free Clinic paralleled a project at the Tavistock Institute, the psychological warfare agency for British Secret Intelligence Service. Tavistock, founded as a clinic in London in the 1920s, had become the Psychiatric Division of the British Army during World War II under its director, Dr. John Rawlings Rees. (16)... 

West, Nigel. 1983. MI6 British Secret Intelligence Service Operation 1909-1945. New York Random House. 

Secret Service dossiers in the Bond series are rife with instances of other types of sexual boundary crossing. Scaramanga is described as possibly having homosexual tendencies (Gun 33). Wint and Kidd, minor crooks in Diamonds Are Forever, are also described as homos and pansies [Diamonds 116, 151]). This anxiety about homosexuality may well reflect British anxiety about contemporary sexual boundary crossers Guy Burgess and Don MacLean, double agents who also crossed the boundaries between capitalism and cotmnunism and between their home nation of Britain and their then-enemy the Soviet Union. 

Lazenby was offered a seven picture deal, which remained open to him after the release of On Her Majesty s Secret Service in December 1969. With the coming of the end of the decade Lazenby took rather poor advice when he did not reprise the role, even when the money offer had been improved. He told a British national newspaper in 2002 that The advice fi om people I trusted wasn t good James Bond is over, hippies are here, plus its Sean Coimery s gig. Harry Saltzman offered me one million dollars to do another. He was embarrassed that United Artists didn t know I had signed (Metro, 2002 13). 

TNA, WO32/21200, Air Ministry, Special Signals Office (AMSSO) to the British Joint Services Mission in Washington (BJSM Washington), Top Secret Cipher Telegram, Dispatched by OTP (one-time pad, an uncrackable encryption technique), 19 June 1945. 

Garvan also regularly reprinted letters of Schweitzer s that British and American intelligence agencies had intercepted. The correspondence, assessments of the American chemical industry and market, proved Schweitzer understood his business well but hardly justified a secret service number. Schweitzer s death from pneumonia in December 1917, however, spared him from any consequences of the APC s accusations. 

History The secret was released some time after World War II when it became apparent that British forces provided a grenade specially concocted with botulinal toxins to kill Reinhard Heydrich, the much feared head of the Nazi Security Service, better known as the SD. After the successful killing in the Prague, Czechoslovakia, the stunned Germans shot and burned the town of Lidice (where free-Czechs from Britain had been parachuted in kill Heydrich), and arrested an estimated 10,000 Czechs. 

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