Andy Chatterton

And in that book, there are about three paragraphs unreferenced about Section 7.

Now, Section 7 is a MI6, a SIS group that was there purely as a post-occupation resistance.

So after Britain had been defeated militarily, this group would have become active.

And it's MI6, i.e.

the Foreign Secret Service, rather than MI5, because of what they were doing in mainland Europe.

They were taking what they'd learned in mainland Europe and implementing it in the UK.

And it was so secret, this group, that MI6 didn't tell MI5.

They weren't very keen on the military knowing.

And so all the members that they recruited all signed official secrets acts.

And as we'll go into, we know less than 20.

But has the potential...

Because this isn't just the coastal counties.

It is the coastal counties plus all of England, certainly Wales.

That's a huge amount of people potentially involved, possibly tens of thousands of people who signed the Official Secrets Act and almost all of them went to the grave without telling anyone anything.

Yeah, so it's really interesting.

So from the Keith Jeffery official history thing, we know that there were three guys in SIS MI6 who were kind of leading this.

There's a chap called Valentine Vivian, who was head of Section 5, which was counter-espionage.

There was a chap called Richard Gambier-Parry, who was part of Section 8, which was the communications, so the wireless part of SIS.

And also a really mysterious guy called David Boyle, who was head of or part of Section N, which was something to do with diplomatic mail.

But these guys were in charge of the recruitment and training and the establishment of this resistance group.