Chapter 12: The M Organisation

1  ‘should never be’: Vernon Kell, Vernon Kell Papers, PP/MCR/120 Reel 1.

2  ‘A showpiece for’: ‘Now You See It, Now You Don’t’, The Times Magazine, 7 August, 1993.

3  ‘the amount of information’: KV 4/227/1a.

4  ‘a little leg-pulling’: KV 2/1869/163a.

5  ‘she might stand’: KV 4/227/1a.

6  ‘Women do not make’: Vernon Kell, ‘Security Intelligence in War. Lecture Notes’, 1934, PP/MCR/120 Reel 1.

7  ‘It is frequently alleged’: KV 4/227/1a.