18
The Soviet spy apparatus: ‘Committee on State Security’.
19
See Appendix: Grenade, p. 333.
20
Combined Services Information Clearing House.
21
See Appendix: Julius Caesar, p. 336.
22
See Appendix: Neutron Bomb, p. 336.
23
This method of opening a lock with a pencil has been withdrawn from the MS.
24
See Appendix: Reg Cavendish, page 337.
25
United States Medical Department.
26
It was a difficult problem which before the Castro regime had always been handled by a small private bank in Havana, which we more or less owned. Castro, however, had nationalized it, luckily not before the local police had tipped them off, so the documentation was at present intact at Saratoga Springs. Dalby asked me to submit a report about it. This was the sort of situation that I was always called in to help with. Not that I’m any sort of accountant, goodness knows; I can make two and two into something different every time I put those particularly unreliable digits together, but I had done a lot of work with the Swiss bank for Ross. By the time I came to Dalby’s department, I had enough good solid contacts there to trace any secret account, given enough time. As well as this I had learned every legal and illegal way of moving money about the globe. Money is to espionage what petrol is to a motor-car, and it was because I had kept the wraps on my contacts there that I had been so insubordinate to so many for so long.
27
Communist Party.
28
Her Majesty’s Government.
29
See Appendix: Detention Centres, p. 341.
30
See Appendix: TAP, p. 341.
31
United States Medical Department.
32
(It’s my theory that Dalby had it going at high speed towards the water to take it as far as possible, but Jean