officer based in the colony, attributed the return, untouched, of the documents to an honourable, ‘old school’ Spanish admiral in Cadiz (p. 56). 9 Memo, ‘To the British Mission’, 12 October 1942, FO 1093/227. 10 Nigel West (ed), The Guy Liddell Diaries, Volume II 1942-1945 (Routledge, Abingdon, 2005), entry for 26 October 1942, p. 20. 11 David Dilks (ed), The Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan O.M., 1938-1945 (Cassell, London, 1971), p. 479. 12 Memo ‘To the British Mission’, 12 October 1942, FO1093/227. 13 Ibid 14 Letter, Peake to Loxley, 14 October 1942, FO 1093/227. Loxley was to be yet another air casualty when the Liberator in which he was travelling to the Yalta Conference crashed into the sea near Malta on 1 February 1945. See Cadogan Diaries, p. 701. 15 Letter, Codrington to Loxley, 19 October 1942, FO 1093/227. 16 Howard, p. 22 and, Codrington to Loxley, 19 October 1942, FO 1093/227. 17 Memo, Morton to Churchill, 22 October 1942, FO 1093/227. See also Gill Bennett, Churchill’s Man of Mystery: Desmond Morton and the World of Intelligence (Routledge, London, 2006), p. 272. 18 Letter, Cadogan to Menzies, 14 October 1942 and letter, Cadogan to Hambro, 14 November 1942, FO 1093/227. 19 Memo, Loxley to Cadogan, 13 November 1942, FO 1093/227. 20 Letter, Cadogan to Hambro, 26 November 1942 FO 1093/227. 21 Smyth, p. 19. 22 Telegram from Madrid to Foreign Office, 28 October 1942, FO 1093/227.
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