The entry on Wikipedia for Evan Frederic Morgan, 4th Lord Tredegar, 2nd Viscount has been sabotaged.
Attempts to
correct the rogue history are reversed by the history vandals.
The present bogus wording includes this statement :
“During World War II he [
Evan] was a high-ranking officer in MI8 ”.
Meaning Military
Intelligence, Section 8.
This lie has been invented to give Evan more importance than he deserves. MI 8 was where the real spies lurked and listened.
MI8 was a part
of British Military Intelligence group responsible for signals
intelligence. It originally consisted of four sections, by
the outbreak of the Second World War MI8 was responsible for the
extensive War Office ‘Y Group’ and briefly, for the Radio Security Service. The famous Bletchley Park was a later spin-off.
The reference to Evan
being a part of MI8 is an example
of bad history, this bad history can be found in at least two books where the
authors have been duped by the same informants, history vandals.
What is the truth?
Well, Evan Morgan, Viscount Tredegar did briefly hold a position in one
of the MI Units, this was in MI14.
Based on the evidence in National Archives file WO
71 / 1078 it can be gleaned that at his Court Martial on 19 April, 1943
Evan Morgan is described as “Temporary
Major (War Substantive Captain) The Viscount Tredegar Royal Corps of Signals,
attached Holding Battalion, Scots Guards”.
In his statement to the Judge Advocate General ahead of his trial Evan declared:
“ I am Officer in Charge Special Section (Carrier Pigeon) Service and I
work at Wing House, Piccadilly, W1. I
assumed these duties during the first week in November 1942.”
From this it can be seen that Evan’s best chance of making a
leading contribution to the Second World War lasted barely six months.
The pigeon operations directed by Evan Morgan at MI
14 involved liaison with the civilians who bred the pigeons all over
the country who were organised in groups.
The breeders were under the
general direction of Evan’s unit known as the Special Section, Carrier
Pigeon, of the Royal Corps of Signals.
Evan’s main
responsibility was to ensure that pigeons were bred and available for use by MI
14 including operations abroad, the
actual direction of the operations being the responsibility not of Evan but of others in MI 14.
The Pigeon Service was a much larger organisation than the
Special Section. The Special Section was
also concerned with pigeons that were dropped into occupied territory. Evan was
working alongside those with a direct role of logging the incidences of how and
where pigeons were dropped ( by means of parachute), recording this
on a map on display at Wing House.
Pigeons were dropped by the RAF mainly in Holland and the Low Countries for possible
use by local resistance groups for sending messages to be sent back to Britain. There are several brave exploits of key information being brought to Britain by these very brave little birds.
As to Evan Morgan, Viscount Tredegar, one has to conclude that Evan had an important role in
1942/3 but a mediocre one, he was hardly a “high ranking officer” and was NOT in MI8.
All the glory was ended
after Evan was brought down by Court Martial, found guilty on two counts and “severely reprimanded” on charges brought under the Official Secrets Act.
William Cross, Biographer of Evan, Viscount Tredegar
:William
Cross, FSA Scot is the author of six
books on Evan Morgan including “ Not
Behind Lace Curtains: The Hidden World of Evan, Viscount Tredegar” and co-author of “ Aspects of Evan : The last Viscount Tredegar
including the transcript of Evan’s Court Martial for offences against the
Official Secrets Acts.”
