WALLFLOWERS is the codename given to one of the Security Service
s most treasured possessions, the daily journal dictated from
August 1939 to June 1945 by MI5 s Director of Counter-Espionage,
Guy Liddell, to his secretary, Margo Huggins. The document was
considered so highly classified that it was retained in the safe of
successive Directors-General, and special permission was required
to read it.
Liddell was one of three brothers who all won the Military Cross
during the First World War and subsequently joined MI5. He
initially first served in the Metropolitan Police Special Branch at
Scotland Yard, dealing primarily with cases of Soviet espionage,
until he was transferred to MI5 in 1931. His social connections
proved important because in 1940 he employed Anthony Blunt as his
personal assistant and became a close friend of both Guy Burgess
and Victor Rothschild, and was acquainted with Kim Philby. Despite
these links, when Liddell retired from the Security Service in 1952
he was appointed security adviser to the Atomic Energy Commission,
an extremely sensitive post following the conviction of the
physicist Klaus Fuchs two years earlier.
No other member of the Security Service is known to have
maintained a diary and the twelve volumes of this journal
represents a unique record of the events and personalities of the
period, a veritable tour d horizon of the entire subject. As
Director, B Division, Liddell supervised all the major pre-war and
wartime espionage investigations, maintained a watch on suspected
pro-Nazis and laid the foundations of the famous double cross
system of enemy double agents. He was unquestionably one of the
most reclusive and remarkable men of his generation, and a legend
within his own organisation.
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