Section V of MI6 was housed in St.Albans: "Kim" Philby worked in the Iberian Section and his deputy Graham Greene in the Portuguese desk.
José António BarreirosSeptember 14, 2019
British Embassy in Lisbon, Rua São Francisco de Borja, 63 , phone number 4 4151, very near the German Legation. It has been the Residence of the Ambassador and Chancery since 1833, when Charles Ellis,…
José António BarreirosSeptember 2, 2019
In his book of memoirs, first published in 1972 and now translated from German to English by his daughter Katharine Wallace, Nikolaus Ritter , Abwehr officer for Luft Intelligence, reports on his travels to Lisbon…
José António BarreirosAugust 28, 2019
On 28 August 1940, the Duke of Windsor and Mrs Wallis Simpson embarked from Lisbon to New York and from there to their destination: Bermuda. Following instructions received from the British Government through a letter…
José António BarreirosAugust 26, 2019
Michael Stewart, Press Attaché at the British Embassy in Lisbon, photographed at the party given when he left Portugal According to an Australian newspaper , he was involved in a frontier incident with Portuguese authorities…
José António BarreirosAugust 19, 2019
I met him some years ago in his house in the South of England. He was a kind man. He gave me all the instructions I needed to arrive there from Victoria Station, London. After…
José António BarreirosAugust 19, 2019
Ian Lancaster Fleming, the creator of 007, worked as a Naval Intelligence Officer at the NID, the Naval Department directed by Admiral John Henry Godfrey. In 1941, both were in Lisbon, travelling to America. Ian Fleming was…
José António BarreirosAugust 19, 2019
Journalist Fernando Pessa was the voice at the BBC's Portuguese Service during WW2. Invited in 1938 to work there, while he was serving our national broadcast station , he obtained the full agreement of the…
José António BarreirosAugust 19, 2019
I wrote here about the biography of Peter Ustinov's father, Ivan , written by Peter Day. Compared with what I knew from other sources, the author goes further in claiming that "Klop" was sent to Lisbon…
José António BarreirosAugust 19, 2019