A week after the armistice, I left for Holland to join the newly set up?SIS in The Hague. I was accompanied by three of our secretaries,?who had donned a kind of pseudo-military uniform so as not to attract?attention to themselves in the vast military camp which liberated?Europe then was. We took with us a lot of files and stores and travelled?out on a Naval MTB belonging to the Secret Service flotilla. It was?a beautiful spring afternoon when we sailed up the New Waterway?to Rotterdam. I was back in Holland, once more?free of enemy?occupation.

【戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)結(jié)束一周后，我前往荷蘭，加入新成立的海牙國(guó)際情報(bào)研究所。陪同我的是我們的三個(gè)秘書(shū)，她們穿著一種偽軍裝，以免在當(dāng)時(shí)解放歐洲的特殊的時(shí)局下引起別人的注意。我們帶了很多文件和物資，乘坐一輛屬于特勤局艦隊(duì)的魚(yú)雷艇前往目的地。那是一個(gè)美麗的春日下午，我們沿著新航道駛向鹿特丹。我回到了荷蘭，又一次重獲自由?！?/span>

We arrived in Rotterdam in the early evening. As soon as we were?alongside, I went ashore to find out what had become of my aunt. She?lived a fair distance away from the port and there was no transport. A?kind workman, to whom I explained the situation, lent me his bicycle.?It had wooden wheels and it took me some time to get to the house?which I had last seen on the day of my grandmother's funeral. I rang?the bell and my aunt opened the door. She had become very thin, but?otherwise was well. It was a tearful reunion and we talked till deep?into the night when I had to get back to my ship. The next time I?came, I drove up in my own requisitioned car and brought with me ample?supplies of food. My aunt needed these badly after the winter of?famine she had just lived through.

【我們傍晚時(shí)分到達(dá)鹿特丹。我們一靠岸，我就上岸想看看姑姑怎么樣了。她住在離港口相當(dāng)遠(yuǎn)的地方，沒(méi)有交通工具。我向一位好心的工人解釋了情況，他把自行車借給了我。自行車是木制的輪子，我花了一些時(shí)間才來(lái)到我祖母葬禮那天最后一次見(jiàn)到的那所房子。我按了門鈴，姑姑開(kāi)了門。她變得很瘦，但其他方面都很好。這是一次含淚的重逢，我們一直聊到深夜，直到我不得不回到我的船上。第二次來(lái)的時(shí)候，我開(kāi)著自己征用的車，帶著充足的食物。姑姑剛剛經(jīng)歷了一個(gè)充滿饑餓的冬天，她急需這些東西?！?/span>

The station was housed in two large villas in Wassenaar, a?fashionable garden suburb of The Hague. The largest one, which was?used as living quarters for the staff, had belonged to a wealthy Dutch?Nazi, who only two weeks previously had been taken to a prison camp?to await trail for his wartime activities. The other was used as the?office. The day after my arrival, I was already engaged on my new job.?Assisted by a secretary, I had to go through our files and collect facts?to be used in support of citations, which I had to draft, recommending?our agents for various British decorations. The station's mission at that?time was to wind up our wartime organisations and commitments.?The fate of agents who had disappeared had to be investigated; the relatives?of those killed had to be cared for; those who had survived?prison and concentration camp had to be rehabilitated; most had to?be?settled in a peacetime career and all had to be recommended for?awards, many posthumously. All this was done, of course, in close co-operation with our colleagues in the Dutch Service, who had installed?themselves?in a large country house not far away. The officers of that?service, who had worked in London, were also awarded British?decorations while the officers of P8, including myself, received the?Order of Orange-Nassau for our work during the war.

【駐地坐落在海牙郊區(qū)時(shí)尚花園的兩座大別墅里。其中最大的一間被用作工作人員的生活區(qū)，原屬于一位富有的荷蘭納粹分子，他在兩周前剛剛被押往戰(zhàn)俘營(yíng)，等待對(duì)他罪惡的審判。另一間用作辦公室。在我到達(dá)的第二天，我就開(kāi)始了我的新工作。在秘書(shū)的協(xié)助下，我不得不翻閱文件，收集證據(jù)，用來(lái)支持我起草的引文，推薦各種英國(guó)勛章的適合者。該站當(dāng)時(shí)的任務(wù)是解散我們的戰(zhàn)時(shí)組織和實(shí)現(xiàn)一些承諾。必須調(diào)查失蹤特工的命運(yùn);遇難者的親屬必須得到照顧;那些從監(jiān)獄和集中營(yíng)中幸存下來(lái)的人必須重新回歸社會(huì);大多數(shù)人不得不在和平時(shí)期的職業(yè)生涯中安頓下來(lái)，所有人都必須被推薦獲得榮譽(yù)，其中許多人是死后提名的。當(dāng)然，所有這些工作都是與我們?cè)诤商m服務(wù)的同事密切合作完成的，他們住在不遠(yuǎn)處的一所鄉(xiāng)村別墅里。在倫敦工作過(guò)的軍官也被授予英國(guó)勛章，而P8的軍官，包括我在內(nèi)，因我們?cè)趹?zhàn)爭(zhēng)期間的工作而獲得了橙色拿騷勛章。】

I must admit, however, that I do not remember this first summer of?peace primarily for the work we did. Rather it has remained fixed in my?memory for the almost unbroken round of parties, drinking?sessions and high living into which I was flung. It was as if the sudden?release from danger, from suffering and privation, from strain and?excessive work, from gloom and misery had gone to people's heads so?that they lost for a while all sense of measure, and with dizzy abandon?threw themselves into a whirlpool of pleasure. Those in the first place?affected by this passing madness were the military, who at that time?held all power and controlled all supplies and facilities. Requisitioned?cars, luxurious villas, stocks of champagne and brandy (hoarded by?the?defeated Wehrmacht) clubs located in the most expensive?restaurants or the most picturesquely situated country houses, luxury?hotels in famous spas and holiday resorts, attractive girls avid for a good?time after the gloom of the occupation years, all these privileges?normally enjoyed only by the very rich were now available to every?officer.

【然而，我必須承認(rèn)，我記得這第一個(gè)和平的夏天，主要不是因?yàn)槲覀兯龅墓ぷ?。相反，它一直留在我的記憶中，是因?yàn)槲冶蝗舆M(jìn)了幾乎不間斷的聚會(huì)、酗酒和奢靡的生活。人們突然擺脫了戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)，擺脫了苦難和貧困，擺脫了勞累和繁重的工作，擺脫了憂郁和痛苦，仿佛一下子沖昏了頭腦，一時(shí)失去了分分合合的意識(shí)，而盲目地縱情投入了快樂(lè)的漩渦。首先受到這種短暫的瘋狂影響的是軍隊(duì)，他們當(dāng)時(shí)掌握著所有的權(quán)力，控制著所有的物資和設(shè)施。征用的汽車、豪華別墅、被打敗的國(guó)防軍囤積的香檳和白蘭地(在最昂貴的餐館或風(fēng)景如畫(huà)的鄉(xiāng)村別墅里)俱樂(lè)部、著名的水療中心和度假勝地的豪華酒店、渴望在占領(lǐng)年代的黑暗之后度過(guò)美好時(shí)光的迷人女孩，所有這些通常只有非常富有的人才能享受的特權(quán)，現(xiàn)在每個(gè)軍官都能享受到?！?/span>

I too found myself irresistibly drawn into this maelstrom of?pleasure. In the words of the well-known hymn 'the world, the flesh?and Satan dwelt around the path I trod'. To my shame, I must admit?that my strong religious convictions, although I had not lost them,?proved no safeguard against the temptations which surrounded me.

【我也發(fā)現(xiàn)自己不可抗拒地卷入了這歡樂(lè)的漩渦。用一首著名的贊美詩(shī)的話說(shuō)，“世界，肉體和撒旦居住在我走過(guò)的道路周圍”。讓我感到慚愧的是，我必須承認(rèn)，盡管我并沒(méi)有失去強(qiáng)烈的宗教信仰，但事實(shí)證明，我無(wú)法抵御圍繞在我周圍的誘惑?！?/span>

By September most of the winding-up work had been done in spite?of all these distractions. I was recalled to London to look after P8 once?more.

【到9月，雖然有這些的干擾，但是大部分清盤工作已經(jīng)完成。我又被召回倫敦去管理P8?！?/span>

It was a period of reorganisation and of adjustment to new?conditions, to a new style and tempo for the Service, as a whole, and?every individual in it. The past was coming to an end, the future had?not yet begun. Many people were leaving, returning to their old professions?and occupations, some to the City, some to the Bar, others?to schools and universities. Several former officers of the Service stood?for Parliament in the 1945 General Election which put a Labour?Government in power. Colonel Cordeaux was elected Conservative?MP for Grimsby and became a regular speaker on intelligence affairs in?succeeding Parliaments. Lt-Col Seymour left to return to his old?job as the representative in Holland of a large tobacco?company.

【這是一個(gè)重組和調(diào)整的時(shí)期，以適應(yīng)新的情況，作為一個(gè)整體，每個(gè)人都參與其中。過(guò)去已近尾聲，未來(lái)尚未開(kāi)始。許多人離開(kāi)了，回到他們?cè)瓉?lái)的專業(yè)和職業(yè)，一些人去了金融城，一些人去了律師事務(wù)所，另一些人去了中學(xué)和大學(xué)。在1945年的大選中，幾名前特務(wù)官員參加了議會(huì)選舉，工黨政府上臺(tái)執(zhí)政?？茽柖嗌闲１贿x為格里姆斯比的保守黨議員，并在隨后的議會(huì)中成為情報(bào)事務(wù)的定期發(fā)言人。西摩中校離開(kāi)后，回到他原來(lái)的工作崗位，擔(dān)任一家大型煙草公司駐荷蘭的代表?！?/span>

Meanwhile, in the higher echelons of the Service a good look was?being taken at the new distribution of power in the world, brought?about by the war, and the framework of a new service, designed to?meet the new challenges, hammered out. It was clear already then?that the main target of the future would be the Soviet Union, the new socialist?countries of Eastern Europe and the world Communist?movement.

【與此同時(shí)，在軍隊(duì)高層中，人們正在仔細(xì)觀察戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)帶來(lái)的世界上新的權(quán)力分配，并制定了旨在迎接新挑戰(zhàn)的新軍種的框架。當(dāng)時(shí)已經(jīng)很清楚，未來(lái)的主要目標(biāo)將是蘇聯(lián)、東歐的新興社會(huì)主義國(guó)家和世界共產(chǎn)主義運(yùn)動(dòng)?！?/span>

The pre-war Secret Service had been very much a kind of club of?enthusiastic amateurs, autocratically ruled by the Chief, who could?take them on, sack them and pay them as he deemed fit, not bound by?any Civil Service rules and regulations. The new SIS, which emerged?after the big post-war reorganisation was a properly established?Government Department with a personnel department, gradings,regular promotions, pension schemes and annual increments. There?were many old hands who shook their heads at all this new-fangled?bureaucratic paraphernalia, predicting that the new organisation?would be too cumbersome, too hidebound, not flexible enough for?such a subtle and delicate business as spying.

【戰(zhàn)前的特勤局在很大程度上是一種業(yè)余愛(ài)好者的俱樂(lè)部，由局長(zhǎng)獨(dú)裁統(tǒng)治，他可以雇用他們，解雇他們，給他們他認(rèn)為合適的薪水，不受任何公務(wù)員制度的約束。戰(zhàn)后大規(guī)模重組后出現(xiàn)的新特勤局是一個(gè)適當(dāng)建立的政府部門，包括人事部門、職務(wù)、定期晉升、養(yǎng)老金計(jì)劃和年度增量。許多老手對(duì)所有這些新奇的官僚制度都搖頭，他們預(yù)測(cè)這個(gè)新組織將過(guò)于繁瑣，過(guò)于保守，對(duì)于間諜這樣微妙的業(yè)務(wù)來(lái)說(shuō)不夠靈活?！?/span>

At the beginning of 1946, Commander Child paid a visit to Head?Office to put forward a proposal which involved me. A certain Naval?Intelligence unit was in process of being wound up. During the war it?had specialised in commando-type operations against enemy shore?establishments with the purpose of capturing personnel and documents?of intelligence interest. The last remnants of it were still stationed in?Hamburg, and Commander Child suggested that I should be?appointed its nominal CO as a convenient cover for secret service?operations in Germany. There was already a large SIS station in?Hamburg, but, as CO of the Royal Naval Forward Intelligence Unit,?as it was called, I might be better placed to carry out certain?operations, especially those with a naval angle.

【1946年初，查爾德司令訪問(wèn)總部，提出了一項(xiàng)我也參與其中的建議。某個(gè)海軍情報(bào)單位正準(zhǔn)備解散。在戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)期間，它專門從事針對(duì)敵方海岸設(shè)施的突擊行動(dòng)，目的是捕獲具有情報(bào)價(jià)值的人員和文件。它最后的殘余部分仍然駐扎在漢堡，查爾德司令建議我擔(dān)任它名義上的指揮官，以便為在德國(guó)的秘密行動(dòng)提供方便的掩護(hù)。漢堡已經(jīng)有了一個(gè)很大的特勤局站點(diǎn)，但是，作為皇家海軍前沿情報(bào)部隊(duì)的指揮官，我可能更適合執(zhí)行某些行動(dòng)，尤其是那些從海軍角度出發(fā)的行動(dòng)?！?/span>

The proposal was accepted and in March of that year I went to?Hamburg to succeed from the unit's last real CO, Captain Charles?Wheeler, Royal Marines, who later became well known as a BBC?correspondent in Washington.

【建議被采納了，同年3月，我前往漢堡，接替該部隊(duì)最后一位真正的指揮官，皇家海軍陸戰(zhàn)隊(duì)的查爾斯·維爾勒上尉，他后來(lái)成為了著名的BBC駐華盛頓記者。】

The unit was located in an attractive villa with a garden sloping?down to the river Elbe. This house I now took over, together with a?naval writer, who spoke excellent German, a station wagon with a?Royal Marine driver and an ample store of food, cigarettes and drink?to?be used for operational purposes.

【該單位位于一棟漂亮的別墅內(nèi)，花園靠近易北河?，F(xiàn)在我和一位能說(shuō)一口流利德語(yǔ)的海軍作家一起接管了這所房子，還有一輛由皇家海軍陸戰(zhàn)隊(duì)司機(jī)駕駛的旅行車，以及充足的食物、香煙和飲料，以供使用?！?/span>