Birger Dahlerus

188 Dahlerus, 23; E. L. Woodward, ed., British Foreign Policy in the Second World War, I (London: HMSO, 1970), 66-67, 74. Prytz had been a Wallenberg ally in opposing the parvenu Ivar Kreuger; after Kreuger’s bankruptcy, he joined the Wallenbergs in “reorganizing” Kreuger’s holdings into Enskilda’s orbit. Shaplen, 97. Dahlerus brought several British bankers and industrialists to Sweden to meet representatives of Goering on August 7, 1939 to discuss peace proposals. One of the participants was Sir John Renwick of the Jardine Matheson family, who served Charles Hambro as a specialist in economic warfare. W. J. Keswick, head of Jardine Matheson, was a director of British Petroleum, where B. A. C. Sweet-Escott served as Group Finance Coordinator. Sweet-Escott, like Hambro, had been a top man in SOE during World War II. See Graham-Murray, 35.

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Created in June, the Dodds-Parker Advisory Committee, which considered non-military measures and was responsible for much of the co-ordination in this area, included his old SOE boss, Sir Charles Hambro, and a propaganda specialist, the Controller of the BBC's Overseas Services, Hugh Greene, whose brother-in-law, Rodney Dennys, was the MI6 station head in Paris.63 The committee, tasked with countering Egyptian propaganda in the Middle East, proposed a large increase in capital expenditure on transmitters in Aden, Libya and Cyprus. During the spring of 1956, at the request of Eden, the IRD had stepped up its propaganda efforts in the Middle East with a special emphasis given to radio broadcasting and attempts to counteract the influence of Radio Cairo. The IRD's head, John Rennie, and his deputy, Norman Reddaway, had arranged for more 'black' propaganda, while senior IRD official Sydney Hebblethwaite asked Regional Information Officers to report on efforts to 'penetrate local broadcast stations', with a view to reducing criticisms of Britain's role in the region.