![]() ![]() ![]() An expurgated edition was published in 1939.Īlthough Mackenzie made it clear that he deeply resented his prosecution, MI5 continued to spy on him.Īn MI5 mole in the BBC, named Frost-Major, once told Blunt - by now a Russian agent - about a conversation with Mackenzie and a Daily Telegraph journalist in 1942. One is available at the Bodleian Library at Oxford, where it is listed under "suppressed books". He referred to "scores of under-employed generals surrounded by a dense cloud of intelligence officers sleuthing each other".Īlthough the book was withdrawn, some copies escaped the ban. Mackenzie also revealed that MI6 agents abroad disguised themselves as "passport control officers", and that MI5 had a "blacklist". The first C, he said, was the one-legged Sir Mansfield Cummings, who cut off the limb in 1914 with a penknife to extricate himself from a car crash. In the book, he disclosed that a Whitehall agency called MII(c) was in fact the Secret Intelligence Service (now MI6) and that its head was called C, which stood for Chief. It all started in 1932, when Mackenzie was fined £100 for breaching the Official Secrets Act by publishing Greek Memories, an account of his experiences as an MI6 officer in the first world war. ![]()
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