No. 505 NAI DFA/10/P168

Letter from Colonel Dan Bryan to Seán Nunan (Dublin)

Dublin, 5 October 1950

Dear Mr. Nunan
Although I have not yet the pleasure of your acquaintance, as I use your Department to some extent in a possibly unorthodox fashion I am availing of this opportunity to convey my best wishes to you, in your new and onerous post.¹ I will take an early opportunity of calling on you personally.

Yours
Dan Bryan

¹ As the Director of Military Intelligence (G2) since 1941 Bryan had developed a very close working relationship with the Department of External Affairs. This relationship had begun under Bryan's successor, Col. Liam Archer, in the run up to the outbreak of the Second World War. Whilst G2's activities and size had been scaled back after 1945, Bryan maintained his relationship with Joseph Walshe and subsequently with Frederick Boland. G2 made specific use of External Affairs as a means of transmitting information to British intelligence service counterparts.

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