29
Large numbers (of years in prison).
30
Treasury Department, U.S.A., controls Narcotics Bureau and Secret Service. In 1959 in Naples, where she lived with her parents (her father was R.N. attached to NATO), she had been recruited into the department. The endless round of parties she attended made her a useful ear for the Narcotics Bureau.
31
See Appendix 5.
32
A Portuguese political prison on the equatorial island, Santiago, 300 miles off the coast of Africa.
33
These buoys were dropped into the ocean by German ships and planes during World War 2. Every twelve hours they came to the surface and transmitted a radio message. The message was a reading from the meteorological gear inside it. In this way the German met. service prepared forecasts based upon a large number of weather reports without sending ships or aircraft anywhere near.
34
P.I.D.E.: Internal Police for the Defence of the State, i.e. Secret Police.
35
Sc.Ad.C.: Scientific Adviser to the Cabinet.
36
Air Pass: interception radar (air-to-air and air-to-ground).
