Reference List of Officials in this Briefing Book
Note that these are not comprehensive biographies, but titles and details that may help researchers to contextualize/interpret this collection of documents from August-December 1945.
Canadians (Department of External Affairs):
Senior Officials:
Norman Robertson: Undersecretary of State for External Affairs (senior official in the Department)
Hume Wrong: Acting Undersecretary of State for External Affairs in the autumn of 1945
External Affairs Personnel with Intelligence Duties:
Herbert Norman: Head of Canada’s Special Intelligence Section 1942-1945; attached to US counterintelligence staff in Tokyo in the autumn of 1945
George Glazebrook: University of Toronto historian who joined the DEA during the Second World War and shouldered intelligence duties (i.e. the recruitment of codebreakers and linguists for the Examination Unit; censorship intelligence)
Thomas A. “Tommy Stone: Senior External Affairs officer responsible for intelligence and “psychological warfare” matters during the Second World War; posted to the Canadian Embassy in Washington in the autumn of 1945
Other Foreign Service Officers:
Ronald MacAlister (R.M.) Macdonnell
British Intelligence Officers:
Peter Cecil Wilson: MI6 officer posted to New York and Washington (with British Security Coordination) during the war. One of his specialties was the Japanese intelligence service
Group Captain Eric Malcolm Jones: Headed Bletchley Park’s ‘Hut 3’ during the Second World War (which intercepted and interpreted Luftwaffe and Wehrmacht communications). Jones served in Washington as a representative of the British signals intelligence community in 1945-46
US Military Intelligence Officers (G2):
Brigadier General Carter W. Clarke: Deputy Chief of US military intelligence during the Second World War
Brigadier General Elliott R. Thorpe: General Douglas MacArthur's chief of counterintelligence in Tokyo
The “Rigby” referenced in Wilson’s correspondence was most likely Henry W. Rigby: Cravath attorney who joined US military intelligence’s Far Eastern Section during the Second World War
The “Gibson” referenced in Wilson’s correspondence was most likely Lieutenant Colonel Ernest W. Gibson Jr., a former Senator from Vermont who served with US military intelligence in the South Pacific and in Washington