Stuck on the Flypaper: Frances Stonor Saunders on MI5 and the Hobsbawm File
London Review of Books, Frances Stonor Saunders, April 9, 2015.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n07/frances-stonorsaunders/stuck-on-the-flypaper
" . . .
[Guy] Liddell left London on 30 March [1933], and stayed for ten days. He had been invited to meet officials of the German Political Police, Abteilung 1A, which had installed itself in the KPD headquarters, now conveniently vacant. Liddell was assisted by Frank Foley, MI6’s Berlin station chief, . . . "
" . . . Liddell and Foley were introduced to Rudolf Diels, head of Abteilung 1A, who explained urbanely that it was his intention to exterminate communism in its widest sense. . . "