•MI5 never passed on
relevant intelligence to F.O.
for their enquiry, even though:
–Sir Vernon
Kell, founder and Director General of MI5, told US intelligence he knew of Wostwag’s financial tie-up with the Soviet Security Services back in
1929.
–Mueller’s 34
year dossier from 1917 was active at the time in 1935.
– If they had, then their conclusions may well have been different… As it was, the F.O armed only with Marxist Cockburn’s allegations in The Week of a Japanese-German pact, weren’t even on the ‘scent’ of any Soviet complicity…