THE SOMERTON MAN MYSTERY TAMAM SHUD: THE 1948 MI5 DIARIES... UPDATED FULL LIST OF DIARIES WITH DOWNLOADS

 ...CODE NAME: WALLFLOWER

THE GUY LIDDELL DIARIES...

Between late August 1939 and mid-May 1953, Guy Liddell wrote his diaries, which covered WW2 and what is referred to as the 'Early Cold War' years. In all an astonishing 22 volumes tell of the activities of British MI5.

An ex-Royal Artillery officer Guy Liddell made a humble start in intelligence in 1919 via the London, Metropolitan Police, Special Branch as a counter-intelligence officer.  Through the 1920s and 30s, he became very familiar with networks of German and Soviet spy networks in the UK.

'During the 1930s British intelligence produced increasing evidence of Russian and German spying in the British Isles. For Liddell, this came as no surprise. When British codebreakers broke Russian ciphers revealing Moscow-inspired espionage in Great Britain in the 1920s, Liddell was part of a team that raided the offices of ARCOS, the Soviet trading office in London, then at the heart of Bolshevik spying.' ......Dr. Ray Batvinis, historian.

MI5 In Australia

Our interest here is focused on the time of the Somerton Man, namely between the years 1947 to 1949. To that end, and whilst I do have copies of all 22 volumes of the Liddell Diaries, code-named WALLFLOWER, this post covers 1948  during that year, MI5 was particularly active in Australia from the time leading up to the Lapstone conference to the setting up of ASIO and onwards, senior MI5 officers were heavily engaged in Australian Intelligence operations. You will note many mentions of Roger Hollis and his role in the disclosure to Chifley of serious leaks within Doctor Evatt's, the Minister for External Affairs,  Department. There is also the matter of the Lapstone conference and the MI5 run surveillance exercise that appeared to have been deliberately derailed.

For those versed in Intelligence matters, and if you have not read it before, the 1948 Diaries may shock you, an intriguing read.

1948 Diaries, parts 1 and 2

Part 1.

Part 2:

You may be wondering why these documents are appearing here at this time. Simply put, it's because, in the not-too-distant future, there may well be a good reason to consider this Intelligence background of the Somerton Man case. The question of whether the exhumed remains are those of the Somerton Man has yet to be resolved.
I will add to this post in the coming days.

Update 1. Full List of Liddell Diaries with links:

• VOL 1A__KV-4-185__28 AUG 39 – 26 NOV 39
• VOL 1B__KV-4-185__27 NOV 39 – 29 FEB 40
• VOL 2A__KV-4-186__1 MAR 40 – 7 AUG 40
• VOL 2B__KV-4-186__9 AUG 40 – 2 OCT 40
• VOL 3A__KV-4-187__3 OCT 40 – 3 APR 41
• VOL 3B__KV-4-187__4 APR 41 – 31 MAY 41
• VOL 4A__KV-4-188__2 JUN 41 – 25 OCT 41
• VOL 4B__KV-4-188__27 OCT 41 – 29 NOV 41
• VOL 5A__KV-4-189__1 DEC 41 – 12 MAR 42
• VOL 5B__KV-4-189__13 MAR 42 – 25 MAY 42
• VOL 6A__KV-4-190__26 MAY 42 – 22 SEP 42
• VOL 6B__KV-4-190__23 SEP 42 – 30 NOV 42
• VOL 7A__KV-4-191__3 APR 43 – 30 JUN 43
• VOL 7B__KV-4-191__1 DEC 42 – 2 APR 43
• VOL 8A__KV-4-192__1 JUL 43 – 30 AUG 43
• VOL 8B__KV-4-192__31 AUG 43 – 5 NOV 43
• VOL 8C__KV-4-192__6 NOV 43 – 30 NOV 43
• VOL 9A__KV-4-193__1 DEC 43 – 11 FEB 44
• VOL 9B__KV-4-193__12 FEB 44 – 29 APR 44
• VOL 10A__KV-4-194__1 MAY 44 – 18 JUN 44
• VOL 10B__KV-4-194__19 JUN 44 – 31 AUG 44
• VOL 11A__KV-4-195__1 SEP 44 – 13 OCT 44
• VOL 11B__KV-4-195__14 OCT 44 – 15 DEC 44
• VOL 11C__KV-4-195__16 DEC 44 – 31 DEC 44
• VOL 12A__KV-4-196__1 JAN 45 – 7 MAR 45
• VOL 12B__KV-4-196__19 MAR 45 – 29 MAY 45
• VOL 12C__KV-4-196__30 MAY 45 – 1 JUN 45
• VOL 13__KV-4-466__18 JUN 45 – 17 NOV 45
• VOL 14__KV-4-467__19 NOV 45 – 25 SEP 46
• VOL 15__KV-4-468__26 SEP 46 – 3 MAR 47
• VOL 16__KV-4-469__13 MAY 47 – 31 DEC 47
• VOL 17__KV-4-470__1948
• VOL 18__KV-4-471__1949
• VOL 19__KV-4-472__1950
• VOL 20__KV-4-473__1951
• VOL 21__KV-4-474__1952
• VOL 22__KV-4-475__1 JAN 53 – 15 MAY 53

The above list is courtesy of Dr. Ray Batvinis. You will find his website here:

https://fbistudies.com/

Update 2. From Adelaide Advertiser. June 8th 1950:

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/44914451#

Amongst the many cases investigated by Liddell was the infiltration of unions in the 1930s, not at all dissimilar to the events in Australia that were to follow in the 1940s.