? ? ?The major, it turned out, spoke fluent Dutch, albeit with a marked?English accent, and interviewed me in that language. The questions he?asked were much the same as I had already answered that morning,?but he dwelt rather longer on my work for the Dutch underground.

【那位少校說(shuō)一口流利的荷蘭語(yǔ)，盡管帶著明顯的英國(guó)口音，他用荷蘭語(yǔ)問(wèn)我問(wèn)題。他問(wèn)的問(wèn)題和我那天早上回答的問(wèn)題差不多，但他對(duì)我在荷蘭地下組織的工作內(nèi)容談得很久?！?/span>

? ? ?When the interview was finished the captain took me to a small,?bare room on the first floor, where I had to fill in a four-page printed?form with a number of questions about my parents, my schooling,?my hobbies and other personal information.

【面試結(jié)束后，上校把我?guī)У揭粯且粋€(gè)狹小的空房間，在那里我必須填寫(xiě)一個(gè)四頁(yè)紙的打印表格，上面有關(guān)于我的父母、我的學(xué)校教育、我的愛(ài)好和其他個(gè)人信息等問(wèn)題?！?/span>

? ? ?About a week later I was summoned once more to London. I had to?be in Palace Street at exactly two o'clock in the afternoon. On arrival?there, I found the captain already waiting for me. He took me straight to?the same building we had visited the week before. This time we went up?to the fourth floor and, as soon as I stepped out of the lift, I realised?that I was in a much more important part of the building than on the?previous occasion. The corridor, where I was asked to wait, was?covered with a thick red carpet and the captain told me to sit down in?one of two Chippendale armchairs, standing at each side of a narrow?mahogany table covered with copies of Tatler?and Country Life.

【大約一個(gè)星期后，我再次被喚到倫敦。我被要求在下午兩點(diǎn)準(zhǔn)時(shí)到達(dá)皇宮街。到那里時(shí)，我發(fā)現(xiàn)上校已經(jīng)在等我了。他直接帶我去了我們一周前參觀過(guò)的那棟樓。這次我們上了四樓，當(dāng)我一走出電梯，我就意識(shí)到我所處的位置比上次要重要得多。他們讓我在走廊里等候，走廊上鋪著厚厚的紅地毯，上校叫我坐在兩把齊本代爾式扶手椅中的一把上，兩把椅子分別放在一張狹窄的紅木桌子的兩邊，桌上放著《閑談?wù)摺泛汀多l(xiāng)村生活》?！?/span>

? ? ?The captain left me for a while and, when he came back, invited me?rather solemnly to follow him. At the end of the carpeted corridor we?entered a large boardroom, the centre of which was occupied by a long?polished table. At one side of this sat five men. Two of these were?civilians, one wore the uniform of an air vice-marshal, and two that of?a brigadier-general. The captain took a seat at one end of the table and?I was invited by the air vice-marshal to take the chair facing the board.?He had in front of him my biography, the form I had filled in and?several minute-sheets.

【上校走了不久，他回來(lái)后很嚴(yán)肅地要我跟他走。在鋪著地毯的走廊盡頭，我們進(jìn)入了一間大會(huì)議室，會(huì)議室中央放著一張锃亮的長(zhǎng)桌子。屋子的一邊坐著五個(gè)人。其中兩個(gè)人是平常服裝，其他三個(gè)人一個(gè)穿著空軍副元帥的制服，兩個(gè)穿著準(zhǔn)將的制服。機(jī)長(zhǎng)在桌子的一端坐了下來(lái)，副元帥邀請(qǐng)我坐在面向董事會(huì)的椅子上。他面前放著我的經(jīng)歷以及我之前填好的表格?！?/span>

? ? ?For the next half hour I faced a barrage of questions about myself.?They were fired at me, apparently at random, by the various members?of the board. I answered them as best I could, quietly and in a?straightforward way. I cannot say that I was particularly nervous, I?had by now come to the conclusion that it was probably more than just?a question of service in fast boats, probably something in Naval?intelligence, or liaison work with Allied Navies. Certainly, the questions?I was asked gave me no clue. When they had finished, the?air vice-marshal, who acted as chairman, asked me to wait outside.

【在接下來(lái)的半個(gè)小時(shí)里，我不斷回答著一連串關(guān)于我自己的問(wèn)題。他們不斷向我提問(wèn)。我盡可能地回答了他們，平靜且直截了當(dāng)。我不能說(shuō)我特別緊張，我當(dāng)時(shí)得出的結(jié)論是，這可能不僅僅是在艦艇上服役的問(wèn)題，可能是海軍情報(bào)部門的工作，或者是與盟國(guó)海軍的聯(lián)絡(luò)工作。當(dāng)然，他們問(wèn)的問(wèn)題讓我毫無(wú)頭緒。當(dāng)他們結(jié)束時(shí)，擔(dān)任主官的空軍副元帥請(qǐng)我在外面等候?！?/span>

? ? ?I had sat there for about ten minutes looking at Tatler?when the?captain came out. He put his hand on my shoulder and said that I had?been accepted and would have to report for duty at ten o'clock on the?following Monday morning. On arrival I should ask for Major?Seymour. I was pleased as I was getting bored with the dull existence?of officer of the watch at HMS Dolphin.

【我在那里坐了大約十分鐘，看著閑談?wù)撸ㄓ?guó)期刊)，這時(shí)上校走了出來(lái)。他把手放在我的肩上，說(shuō)我已經(jīng)被錄用了，必須在下星期一上午10點(diǎn)報(bào)到上班。要我去找西摩少校。我很高興，因?yàn)槲乙呀?jīng)厭倦了海豚號(hào)皇家海軍艦艇值班官的枯燥生活?！?/span>

? ? ?When I reported for duty at 54 Broadway Buildings, I was taken up?by the ground-floor watchman to the small attic room on the eighth?floor where I had been before. Major Seymour turned out to be the?officer who had interviewed me in Dutch. He wore his uniform jacket?now and I could see that he was not a Royal Marine, as I had thought,?but in the General Service Corps. This somewhat mystified me. The?first thing he did was to take me along to see Colonel Cordeaux who,?he said, was the head of the department to which I had been appointed and?who wanted to see me before I started. Colonel Cordeaux's office?was a large room at the other end of the corridor and was guarded by three?secretaries, two of them young and pretty, the third a tall,?extremely thin, middle-aged woman with glasses and buck teeth. She?looked like a caricature of the prim spinster, but turned out later to be?very nice and to have quite a lot of life in her.

【當(dāng)我到百老匯大廈54號(hào)去報(bào)到時(shí)，一樓的守夜人把我?guī)У桨藰堑拈w樓上，我以前到過(guò)那里。西摩少校原來(lái)就是那個(gè)用荷蘭語(yǔ)面試過(guò)我的軍官。他現(xiàn)在穿著制服夾克，我看得出來(lái)，他不是像我想象的那樣是皇家海軍陸戰(zhàn)隊(duì)的，而是在總務(wù)隊(duì)服役的。這讓我有些困惑。他做的第一件事就是帶我去見(jiàn)科爾多上校，他說(shuō)，他是我被任命的部門的負(fù)責(zé)人，他想在我開(kāi)始工作之前見(jiàn)我一面。科爾多上校的辦公室在走廊另一頭的一個(gè)大房間里，由三個(gè)秘書(shū)侯著，其中兩個(gè)年輕漂亮，第三個(gè)是一個(gè)戴眼鏡、齙牙的瘦高個(gè)兒中年婦女。她看上去就像一個(gè)循規(guī)蹈矩的人，但后來(lái)發(fā)現(xiàn)她很好，很有活力?！?/span>

? ? ?Colonel Cordeaux himself was a short thick-set man, with pale blue?eyes and a bristle moustache. He spoke in a brisk, military manner and?walked with a marked limp, caused by arthritis from which he suffered?badly. He actually was a Royal Marine, so I thought this?must be the Admiralty after all. The Colonel motioned me to sit down?and began to address me. What he said, I must confess, made a deep?impression on me.

【科爾多瓦上校本人身材矮胖，有一雙淡藍(lán)色的眼睛，蓄著一撮胡子。他說(shuō)話輕快，像軍人一樣，走路明顯一瘸一拐，因?yàn)樗加袊?yán)重的關(guān)節(jié)炎。他實(shí)際上是一名皇家海軍，所以我想這一定是海軍部。上校示意我坐下，開(kāi)始跟我說(shuō)話。我必須承認(rèn)，他的話給我留下了深刻的印象?！?/span>

? ? ?He informed me that I was now an officer of the British Secret?Service and that the building in which we were was its Headquarters.?I would be attached to the Dutch Section, which bore the symbol P8?and was headed by Major Seymour. This section was part of a larger?department called the Northern Area, of which he himself was the?Controller and which, apart from Holland, covered the Scandinavian?countries and the Soviet Union. My actual duties would be explained?to me by the major, but before I started work I would be sent on a?parachute jumping course at Ringway near Manchester. Before?dismissing me, the colonel impressed on me the responsibility of my?new position and what an honour it was to have been selected.

【他告訴我，我現(xiàn)在是英國(guó)特勤局的一名官員了，我們所在的大樓是特勤局的總部。我將被派往荷蘭分部，該分部有P8標(biāo)志，由西摩少校領(lǐng)導(dǎo)。這個(gè)部門隸屬于一個(gè)更大的部，叫做北部地區(qū)。他本人是北部地區(qū)的總審計(jì)長(zhǎng)，除了荷蘭，北部地區(qū)還包括斯堪的那維亞國(guó)家和蘇聯(lián)。我的實(shí)際職責(zé)將由少校向我解釋，但在我開(kāi)始工作之前，我將被派到曼徹斯特附近的林威參加一個(gè)跳傘課程。在結(jié)束談話之前，上校向我強(qiáng)調(diào)了我在新職位上的責(zé)任，以及被選中是多么榮幸?！?/span>

? ? ?I don't know if the colonel himself meant what he said - he was an?old man after all and had seen much of what went on behind the?scenes - but I, a twenty-one-year-old sub-lieutenant in the RNVR,?who had just been commissioned, certainly looked upon it as an?honour and an extraordinary piece of good luck. In fact, I could?hardly believe that it was true. I had of late suspected and hoped that?the job for which I was being interviewed had something to do with?'Intelligence'. But that I would actually become an officer in the?British Secret Service, this legendary centre of hidden power,?commonly believed to have a decisive influence on the great events of this?world, was something that far exceeded my wildest expectations.

【我不知道這些意味著什么，他上校說(shuō):他是一個(gè)老人,見(jiàn)過(guò)很多幕后發(fā)生了什么。但是我,一個(gè)21歲的海軍中尉,剛剛被委任,肯定把它看作是一個(gè)非凡的榮譽(yù)和好運(yùn)。事實(shí)上，我?guī)缀醪桓蚁嘈胚@是真的。最近，我懷疑并希望我接受面試的工作與“智力”有關(guān)，我真的會(huì)成為英國(guó)特勤局的一名官員，這個(gè)傳說(shuō)中的隱藏權(quán)力中心，通常被認(rèn)為對(duì)世界上的重大事件具有決定性的影響力，是遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)超出我最瘋狂的預(yù)想。】

? ? ?Before the war each controller had under him a number of?Production or T' sections, as they were called. These were not large.?They were usually staffed by one or at most two officers and a number?of secretaries. Each P section was denoted by a number indicating the?country in which it operated. Thus P8 was Holland, P1?France and?P4 Germany

【戰(zhàn)前，每個(gè)長(zhǎng)官手下都有一些情報(bào)部門，也就是所謂的T部門。這些都不大。他們通常由一名或至多兩名官員和若干名秘書(shū)組成。每個(gè)P科都用一個(gè)數(shù)字表示，表示它在哪個(gè)國(guó)家開(kāi)展業(yè)務(wù)。因此，P8是荷蘭，P1是法國(guó)，P4是德國(guó)】

? ? ?The 'P' sections were the London desks of the SIS stations abroad,?which carried out the actual work of recruiting and running agents.

【“P”部分是特勤局分部的倫敦分部，負(fù)責(zé)招募和運(yùn)營(yíng)代理商的實(shí)際工作?！?/span>

? ? ?The war and the rapid occupation of most European countries?changed all this. The SIS stations in the countries overrun by the?enemy had to be closed down and their personnel withdrawn. With?operations now being mounted from England the 'P' sections took?over their functions and from the very start developed a particularly?effective way of operating, made possible by the very triumphs of the?Germans. Hatred for the occupying power had turned the populations?of Western and Northern Europe into a vast reservoir of potential?agents and, what is more, agents working for one of the most powerful of?motives, patriotism.

【世界大戰(zhàn)和德國(guó)對(duì)大多數(shù)歐洲國(guó)家的迅速占領(lǐng)改變了這一切。在被敵人占領(lǐng)的國(guó)家中的特勤局工作站不得不關(guān)閉，其人員也不得不撤出。隨著英軍開(kāi)始執(zhí)行任務(wù)，“P”部隊(duì)接管了他們的職能，并從一開(kāi)始就發(fā)展出一種特別有效的作戰(zhàn)方式，這得益于德國(guó)人的勝利。對(duì)占領(lǐng)國(guó)的仇恨使西歐和北歐的人口成為一個(gè)潛在代理人的巨大儲(chǔ)藏庫(kù)，更重要的是，這些代理人為一個(gè)最強(qiáng)大的動(dòng)機(jī)工作，即愛(ài)國(guó)主義?！?/span>

? ? ?Rather than trying to recruit and run agents in the occupied?countries themselves, the chief policy-makers in the Secret Service?decided that the most effective way of doing this was through their?governments in exile in England. This step was not only imposed by?logical reasoning and correct psychology, but even more by the?catastrophic situation which faced the Secret Service as a result of the German victories in the first years of the war. The state of muddle and?unpreparedness in which England found herself after Dunkirk in the?military field was faithfully reflected in the intelligence field. It was?surmounted with the same resourcefulness and pragmatism and, here?too, victory was snatched from the teeth of defeat.

【特勤局的主要決策者決定，與其自己在被占領(lǐng)國(guó)家招募和運(yùn)營(yíng)特工，最有效的方法是通過(guò)他們?cè)谟?guó)的流亡政府。這一步驟不僅是由邏輯推理和正確的心理強(qiáng)加的，更重要的是，由于德國(guó)在戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)的頭幾年取得了勝利，特勤局面臨著災(zāi)難性的局面。敦刻爾克之后，英國(guó)在軍事領(lǐng)域的混亂和毫無(wú)準(zhǔn)備的狀態(tài)在情報(bào)領(lǐng)域得到了切實(shí)的反映。他們以不少的努力以及應(yīng)用智謀和實(shí)用主義克服了它，在這里也從失敗的邊緣走向了勝利?！?/span>

? ? ?The pre-war principle was to operate against a target country from an?adjoining country. Thus the SIS station in The Hague had been?working against Germany, not against Holland. On the further?principle that every war is fought on the pattern of the previous one,?the station in The Hague had not organised any agent networks inHolland. Therefore, when the Germans invaded Holland and The?Hague station was hastily withdrawn, SIS found itself without a single?agent in occupied Holland itself.

【戰(zhàn)前的原則是針對(duì)毗鄰國(guó)家的目標(biāo)國(guó)。因此，位于海牙的特勤局工作站一直在對(duì)抗德國(guó)，而不是荷蘭。根據(jù)進(jìn)一步的原則，每一場(chǎng)戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)都是按照前一場(chǎng)戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)的模式進(jìn)行的，海牙站沒(méi)有在荷蘭組織有任何的特工網(wǎng)絡(luò)。因此，當(dāng)?shù)聡?guó)人入侵荷蘭，海牙站被匆忙撤出時(shí)，特勤局發(fā)現(xiàn)自己在被占領(lǐng)的荷蘭沒(méi)有一個(gè)特工。】