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	The Rise and Fall of Diamonds
		Sillitoe admittedly had no knowledge about the diamond business, but he suggested that the techniques of counterintelligence that he had employed during the war against the Germans could effectively be used against smugglers.
		Sillitoe next learned that the cartel's problem was not the trickle of diamonds being stolen from its South African mines but the flood of diamonds that were smuggled out of west and central Africa every year.
		Sillitoe realized that the illicit diamond traffic could not be ended decisively as long as the smugglers had high rewards for their goods and only minimal risks of being captured.
	www.24carat.co.uk /theriseandfallofdiamondsedwardjayepstein14.html (4325 words)

	Sir Percy Sillitoe
		Sillitoe believed that as the public could play a useful rôle in helping the security organization, it was equally important that the existence of this body should be well known to the public.
		Sillitoe took the view that the British counter-espionage service should not be given powers which would put it into the same category as the Secret Police of a totalitarian state.
		Sillitoe planned a quiet retirement, running a sweet shop in Eastbourne, and the remainder of his term proved comfortingly uneventful (in fact the retired D-G was to be lured away from Eastbourne to hunt diamond smugglers for de Beers).
	members.aol.com /FenianRam/sillitoe.html (1549 words)

	TheGlasgowStory: Chief Constable Percy Sillitoe, 1888-1962
		Sir Percy Sillitoe (1888-1962) Chief Constable of Glasgow, 1931-1943.
		Sillitoe was appointed to the post on the strength of his reputation as Chief Constable of Sheffield.
		Given a licence by Sillitoe to be harder than the hard men, the police regularly ambushed the gangs and jailed their leaders.
	www.theglasgowstory.com /image.php?inum=TGSA05304 (188 words)

	Book Review - Making A Killing: How and Why Corporations Use Armed Force to Do Business,by Madelaine Drohan
		In 1954, for instance, diamond magnate Ernest Oppenheimer hired British spymaster Percy Sillitoe to apprehend Africans who were taking diamonds from his mines in Sierra Leone.
		Sillitoe was a retired chief of British Secret Service and famous for his anti-communist stance.
		In 1957 Sillitoe was fired and ISDO offices were closed amid mutual recriminations, sabotage and threats of flmail and murder by disgruntled ex-paramilitary thugs.
	www.mltoday.com /Pages/BooksReviews/Review-Drohan.html (919 words)

	Guarding Multinationals MNM
		The situation is not dissimilar to the 1950s, after the Second World War and the dismantling of the old European colonial empires, when De Beers hired former British counter-intelligence officers like Sir Percy Sillitoe to launch a diamond war in Sierra Leone and evict rivals.
		Sillitoe's army laid booby traps, mined border crossings and ambushed traders until all diamond buyers were persuaded to sell their wares to De Beers.
		The modern equivalent of Sir Percy also goes further than just providing routine security guards to fill sentry boxes and sit behind bulletproof counter windows for the diamond merchants, oil drolleries and their ilk.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /New_World_Order/GuardingMultinationals.html (2227 words)

	Politics \| PM evokes tough respect of father's Glasgow
		In response, the police, under Sir Percy Sillitoe, fought force with force and were nicknamed Sillitoe's Cossacks.
		Sillitoe even went to Chicago in 1933 with FBI chief J Edgar Hoover, to compare lawlessness in the two cities.
		Less publicised than the gang wars was the extensive corruption among Glasgow city councillors and building contractors.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5371580-110247,00.html (446 words)

	Kent Police Museum - Past Times - Articles on Kent Police History
		Although this was applied as an emergency measure, they never regained their previous autonomy and the Kent County Constabulary covered the whole of the county from then on..
		This was largely due to the skills of the new Chief Constable who had no particular allegiance to any of the 10 forces and was seen as a 'clean pair of hands'.
		In 1946 Sir Percy Sillitoe left the force on appointment as Director of Security at the War Office and was succeeded by Major John Ferguson, another former army officer but one with considerable police experience.
	www.kent-police-museum.co.uk /core_pages/pasttimes_early_days_pt5.shtml (1254 words)

	Bryson Burke Diamond Corporation: Diamond Exploration and Mining in Canada
		According to the Dictionary of National Biography, Sillitoe was in overall charge of the police forces in Kent during the war.
		That letter, purporting to be from the Russians, called on the British Communist Party to prepare for revolution and was blamed by the Labour Party for the defeat of Britain's first Labour government in the general election of 1924.
		In 1953, not long after Sillitoe had retired, he was approached by Sir Ernest Oppenheimer for assistance in combatting illicit traffic in diamonds.
	brysonburke.com /people_ernest_oppenheimer.html (1909 words)

	Jordan Crandal - Under fire
		The earliest was in the 1950’s when De Beers hired Sir Percy Sillitoe, who had just retired as head of Britain’s MI5, to combat diamond smuggling in Africa.
		Sir Percy set up a private sector intelligence agency for De Beers, called the International Diamond Security Organization, and hired several of his former colleagues from MI5 to help run it.
		Although he was ostensibly retired, Sir Percy was kept in the intelligence loop by senior British officials in Britain and Africa.
	www.wdw.nl /underfire-archive/reply.php?topic_id=116&reply_id=280 (636 words)

	Militarization of Mining
		In the 1950s, for example, Harry Oppenheimer, the South African chair of De Beers, defeated his competitors in Sierra Leone by enlisting Sir Percy Sillitoe, one of Britain's top counterespionage agents during World War II.
		Sillitoe hired soldiers and launched an allout diamond war.
		The mercenaries laid booby traps, mined border crossings, and ambushed diamond traders until finally they were persuaded to sell their wares to the De Beers buyers.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Mining_watch/Militarization_Mining.html (2822 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| UK Election 2005 \| MI5 blocked from Cabinet papers
		At the time, MI5's existence was largely a state secret, with the service's head, Sir Percy Sillitoe, not even listed in the official annual directory of civil servants.
		While couched in diplomatic language, papers reveal Sir Percy strongly opposed a plan to abolish visas for US citizens - and was hopping mad he had not been consulted.
		On 10 December, Sir Percy got his rebuke, albeit a polite one.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/politics/3917599.stm (601 words)

	Dick White
		Sir Percy Sillitoe, the former chief constable of Sheffield and Glasgow
		During his period of office Sillitoe had to deal with the problems of Soviet spies such as
		Sillitoe eventually retired in 1953 and was replaced by White.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /SSwhite.htm (1402 words)

	Zionists plotted IRA-style terrorism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Rabbi Korff had claimed “that millions of dollars had been subscribed by private American sources” to fund the purchase of the aircraft.
		An MI5 briefing paper headed “Threatened Jewish terror in the UK” was prepared for a meeting between Sir Percy Sillitoe, its Director-General, and Clement Attlee, the Prime Minister.
		It stated that if sentences on 18 condemned terrorists were carried out, Britain could expect at least 100 outrages, including the indiscriminate shooting of British officers and soldiers and assassination of selected VIPs, in Britain and throughout the Middle East.
	www.palestine-info.co.uk /am/publish/printer_1058.shtml (206 words)

	Percy Sillitoe
		In May 1946 Sillitoe replaced David Petrie as head of MI5.
		Sillitoe eventually retired in 1953 and was replaced by Sir
		I cannot deny that during my first few weeks as head of MI5, I found it so extremely difficult to find out precisely what everyone was doing that I felt its popular reputation for excessive secrecy was in no way exaggerated.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /SSsillitoe.htm (319 words)

	MI5 \| Previous Directors General (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		He oversaw one of the busiest periods in the Service's history, during which the Service carried out many successful intelligence operations against Nazi Germany.
		Like his predecessor, Sir Percy came from a police background.
		He served as Chief Constable of a number of constabularies before becoming the Security Service's Director-General in 1946.
	www.mi5.gov.uk /print/Page417.html (933 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		According to the files Irgun's speciality was sabotage, but the group was equally capable of assassinations, and had been "responsible in the past for the liquidation of members of police and the military whose activities have been judged especially worthy of Jewish resentment in Palestine".
		The prime minister's briefing note, which was prepared by MI5 before a meeting he had with its director general, Percy Sillitoe, also included a list of precautionary measures taken against the terror threats.
		These included tightening visa restrictions and ordering passport control officers at ports to take down the details of all Jews arriving in the country so they could be checked with security service records.
	www.islammessage.com /htm/bb/2170.htm (469 words)

	South Australia Police Historical Society
		The band had firstly been introduced into Scotland in the 1930s by the newly appointed Chief Constable of Glasgow, Captain (later Sir) Percy Sillitoe for much the same reason that Mr.
		But the ‘diced band’ of the uniform of the Brigade of Guards would be unmistakable and seemed ideal, so I borrowed it for my men and it became known as Sillitoe’s Tartan.
		It is interesting to note that the South Australia Police thereby become the first police force outside of Scotland to adopt ‘Sillitoe’s Tartan’, which today is accepted almost world wide as the official, police logo.
	www.sapolicehistory.org /c_band.html (309 words)

	Right wing establshment influence in Scotland and the UK
		According to my father, Dobie appeared typical of many upper middle class Scots he met, many of which had contempt and indifference to their economically less advantaged.
		[iii] Sir Percy Sillitoe, Sunday Times (22nd November, 1953) I cannot deny that during my first few weeks as head of MI5, I found it so extremely difficult to find out precisely what everyone was doing that I felt its popular reputation for excessive secrecy was in no way exaggerated.
		[viii] Sir Percy Sillitoe retired in 1953 and was replaced by Dick White.
	www.martinfrost.ws /htmlfiles/red_book1.html (4490 words)

	Ian Fleming Publications Ltd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The million carat network...That was the name given by the men of the International Diamond Security Organisation to a fantastic smuggling racket which spirited away ten million pounds' worth of diamonds from Africa every year.
		That was the challenge which faced ex-MI5 Chief, Sir Percy Sillitoe and his private anti-smuggling squad.
		Reproduction prohibited other than in accordance with the attached full copyright notice and limited reproduction permissions.
	www.ianflemingcentre.com /index.cfm?page=diamond (190 words)

	Virtual Norwood > Elizabeth (Bannister) Cornwell Family History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Unfortunately, my Grandmother never mentioned (or I don't recall) a school; just said she went to a girls school; and she worked for the Underground Railway during WW1.
		However, a neighbour of hers was Sir Percy Sillitoe when she was a little girl.
		Is is possible to find where the Sillitoe family lived - that could narrow the search considerably....
	www.virtualnorwood.com /forum/lofiversion/index.php/t648.html (490 words)

	Endnotes
		He had extensive interviews with Percy Sillitoe's staff, who set up De Beers' intelligence system, and considerable access to De Beers itself.
		Fred Kamil, the Lebanese mercenary who hijacked a South African aircraft in order to extort money from Harry Oppenheimer, has also written a book about smuggling called The Diamond Underworld, Allen Lane, London (1979), which is of great interest since Kamil was one of De Beers' diamond soldiers.
		The section in this chapter on Percy Sillitoe and the organization of De Beers intelligence is drawn mainly from Fleming's account.
	www.edwardjayepstein.com /diamond/endnotes.htm (4356 words)

	national journal: "The state of Israel had no right to come into being"
		The other main terrorist group, Irgun, hanged two British sergeants in retaliation for the executions of Jews convicted of terrorist attacks.
		Against this background, in August 1946 the director-general of MI5, Percy Sillitoe, personally warned Attlee that Irgun and the Stern Gang could come together
		Sillitoe wrote in his note for the meeting.
	globalfire.tv /nj/03en/history/terrorstate.htm (454 words)

	Colonial Intelligence in the Bechuanaland Protectorate
		The long-serving head of the post-War MI5 was Sir Percy Sillitoe, often portrayed simnply as a former London police chief.
		Within the B.P. the need for political and security intelligence was brought to a head by the totally unexpected rejection of the widely respected Regent Tshekedi Khama by his people in June 1949, and their support for his nephew Seretse Khama's marriage to an English woman.
		But two years earlier Sir Percy Sillitoe of MI5 had been genuinely surprised to hear the suggestion of a communist conspiracy behind Seretse.
	www.thuto.org /ubh/bw/colad/colad4.htm (2757 words)

	Guardian \| Lunch confession that sealed fate of spy who gave atomic secrets to Russians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		By chance, at the same time the physicist approached the head of security at Harwell because his father had been of fered a job at the University of Leipzig in East Germany, which Fuchs believed might compromise his position at the nuclear establishment.
		"We have had Fuchs' activities under intensive investigation for more than four months," Sillitoe wrote.
		But on January 23 Fuchs asked to see him again, and the pair arranged to meet at the scientist's home in Abingdon the following day.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4674331-103690,00.html (897 words)

	Morphism, 14 May 2002
		I read Phoenix Café yesterday, and it was good enough that I'll probably look for some more Gwyneth Jones at the library, but not good enough that I'll be crushed if I don't find some.
		The book is also amusing in its very tone, pompous, early 20cen middle to upper class British policebeing.
		But in some ways you can tell that Sir Percy was a very nice old guy -- he goes out of his way to praise the competence and composure of the police "girls," for example.
	www.marissalingen.com /051402.html (1166 words)

	Correspondence - January 2006
		It is for a journal whose house style requires the inclusion of first names of authors.
		Try as I might on the internet, I can't find yours anywhere so I'm writing to ask you what it is. In return, I'd be happy to send you a copy of the finished article.
		It is entitled 'Back from the brink: Captain Percy Sillitoe, Chief Constable of Chesterfield, 1923-25', published by Birchwood Publications, 2005.
	www.achart.ca /correspondence/jan_2006.htm (5812 words)

	Independent on Sunday, The: The far from glorious history of MI5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		At the same time, Klaus Fuchs, Nunn May and Melita Norwood were feeding atomic bomb secrets to the GRU " the Red Army's intelligence service.
		Petrie was succeeded in 1946 by Sir Percy Sillitoe, who shouldered the blame when Fuchs was convicted.
		He was replaced by a professional, Sir Dick White, who had been brilliant against the Germans but failed against the Russians.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20051211/ai_n15918528 (426 words)

	UK - Biographies - A-G
		comments that Sillitoe headed MI5 from 1946 to 1950 [1953?], but this biography includes "very little" on this part of Sillitoe's career.
		The one chapter on MI5 "is composed of generalities." The author "observes that while other writers have...
		dismissed Sir Percy's work in MI5 as insignificant, he does not accept this judgment; but he does not succeed in producing evidence to refute it."
	intellit.muskingum.edu /uk_folder/ukbiogs_folder/ukbiogsa-g.html (602 words)

	Sig - Sil
		: Sillitoe headed MI5 from 1946 to 1953, but most of the book concerns his long career in the colonies and in the United Kingdom.
		Cockerill's biography, Sir Percy Sillitoe (1975), does little to rectify the situation.
		Wellesley Aron: A Rebel With a Cause -- A Memoir.
	intellit.muskingum.edu /alpha_folder/S_folder/sig-sil.html (457 words)

	Books at Random House of Canada \| Making a Killing by Madelaine Drohan
		Drohan traces the modern roots of corporate armed force, beginning with Cecil Rhodes’ British South Africa Company, which at the turn of the century built its own army.
		Also included is the stranger-than-fiction tale of ex-MI5 spymaster Sir Percy Sillitoe, who was hired by the De Beers diamond king to prevent the Soviet Union from acquiring smuggled diamonds in order to develop the hydrogen bomb.
		These accounts read like adventure stories in the tradition of Rudyard Kipling and Ian Fleming, but they are essential reading for anyone interested in the effects of unfettered multinational influence.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?0679312013 (620 words)

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