He was met at the flying boat terminal at Mount Batten, Plymouth, by a B1(a) representative, Cyril Mills (calling himself ‘Mr Grey’), and Tommy Harris from B1(g), who acted as interpreter. Also present was MI5’s senior driver, Jock Horsfall. After welcoming Pujol to England and clearing him through the port security formalities, they drove him to a hotel in Plymouth, before setting out early the next morning for London and a safe house at 35 Crespigny Road, Hendon, NW4. This discreet, semi-detached family home in north London was similar to many hundreds of others in the area and boasted just three bedrooms upstairs and a sitting room, dining room and kitchen on the ground floor. It was a modest, typically late Victorian, middle-class property, which had been rented by the Security Service for the duration of the war from a young Jewish army officer. Before BOVRIL took up residence it had already accommodated a number of other double agents, including two Norwegians code-named MUTT and JEFF.
