Sir Peter Allix Wilkinson, KCMG, DSO, OBE (15 April 1914 – 16 June 2000)[1] was a British intelligence officer and diplomat.
Shortly afterwards, he flew into Bosnia to head SOE's "Clowder" mission, an attempt to find a back door into central Europe through Slovenia and Austria.
After the Second World War, he pursued a diplomatic career and ended up as Co-ordinator of Intelligence in the Cabinet Office.
[1] He got a job in the War Office and was with Colin Gubbins in Poland when the Germans conquered it in 1939; he escaped.
The book concludes with an account of the SOE's hazardous attempt under the author's command to infiltrate the Third Reich in 1943–45.