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British Intelligence and the Breach with Russia in 1927*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Christopher Andrew
Christopher Andrew
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Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
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The Historical Journal , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , December 1982 , pp. 957 - 964
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1982

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References

1 Andrew, ‘The British Secret Service and Anglo-Soviet relations’.

2 Sir Wyndham, Childs, Episodes and reflections (London, 1930), pp. 224–5Google Scholar. Sir David, Petrie, Communism in India 1924–1927, 2nd edn, ed. Saha, M. (Calcutta, 1972), pp. 77–82.Google Scholar

3 A. G. Denniston, secret untitled memorandum, 2 Dec. 1944, p. 8. I am very grateful to Mr Robin Denniston for allowing me to use what remains of his father's papers (now in the Churchill College Archive Centre, Cambridge). See also: Andrew, ‘The British Secret Service and Anglo-Soviet relations’.

4 Churchill to Austen Chamberlain, 21 and 22 Nov. 1924, Birmingham University Library, Chamberlain MSS, AC 51/58 and 51/61.

5 Austen Chamberlain, memo for Baldwin (copy), 24 July 1925 (with addendum by Chamberlain of 30 July), Chamberlain MSS, AC 52/81. I am grateful to Birmingham University Library for permission to quote from his correspondence.

6 Carr, E. H.,Foundations of a planned economy,111 (London, 1976-8), part 1, p. 21. J. D. Gregory, ‘Russia’, 10 Dec. 1926, Cambridge University Library, Baldwin MSS 113.Google Scholar

7 C.P. 250 (26), 16 June 1926, Public Record Office, CAB 24/180.

8 Austen Camberlain to Tyrrell (copy), 18 Oct. 1925, Chamberlain MSS, AC 52/769.

9 Chamberlain to Churchill (copy), 5 Nov. 1925, Chamberlain MSS 52/171.

10 Joynson-Hicks, two cabinet memoranda entitled ‘Russian Money’, C.P. 236 (26) & C.P. 244 (26), 11 and 15 June 1926, CAB 24/180.

11 Petrie, Communism in India.

12 Minutes of Inter-Departmental Committee on Eastern Unrest, 23 July 1926, Public Record Office, FO 371/11678.

13 2nd Earl of Birkenhead, F. E.: the life of F. E. Smith, first earl of Birkenhead (London, 1960), P. 535.Google Scholar

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15 Cab. 2 (27), CAB 23/54.

16 C.P. 24 (27), C.P. 25 (27), CAB 24/184. Cab. 12 (27), CAB 23/54.

17 Cab. 14 (27) 1A, CAB 23/90B.

18 Cab. 17 (27) 4, CAB 23/90B.

19 Prologue by Compton Mackenzie to Wilfred Macartney, Walls have mouths (London, 1936)Google Scholar. Wilfred, Macartney, ZigZag (London, 1937), chs. 15–17 (quotation from pp. 344–5).Google Scholar

20 Reports of Macartney's trial in The Times, 5, 6 Dec. 1927; 17, 18, 19 Jan. 1928.

21 Cab. 17 (27) 4, CAB 23/90B.

22 Parl[iamentary] Deb[ates, H[ouse] of C[ommons], 5th series, vol. 206, 26 May 1927, cols. 2302–3.

23 Intercepted telegrams from Yakoklev to Moscow, 13 April and 18 May 1927, published in Cmd. 2874 (1927), Documents illustrating the hostile activities of the Soviet government and Third International against Great Britain, p. 31. Yakoklev doubtless used ‘friends, “neighbours” and so forth’ as euphemisms for agents of various kinds.

24 The Times, 5 Dec. 1927.

25 Cab. 23 (27), CAB 23/55.

26 Andrew, ‘The British Secret Service and Anglo-Soviet relations’, p. 693. Cab. 23 (27), CAB 23/55.

27 Parl. Deb., H. of C., 5th series, vol. 206, 24 May 1927, cols. 1842–54.

28 Ibid., 26 May 1927, cols. 2207–22, 2299–2306.

29 Chamberlain to Rosengolz, 26 May 1927, Documents on British foreign policy, series IA, vol. 111, no. 215.Google Scholar

30 Cmd. 2874.

31 A. G. Denniston, secret untitled memorandum, 2 Dec. 1944, p. 8.

32 Andrew, ‘The British Secret Service and Anglo-Soviet relations’, p. 686.