it was for his contribution to british naval intelligence that mccgwire received his obe in the 1968 new year honours. in the words of his successor as head of the soviet naval intelligence section, commander peter kimm, "it is my sincere belief that he [mccgwire] has succeeded in contributing something tangible to the security of the country and to the stability of the world in a way which is not given to many of us to do."