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19 de abr. de 2024 · Anthony Cave Brown has provided a deeply-researched biography of Sir Stewart Menzies, the head of British Intelligence for nearly two decades beginning in 1933. He covers not just Menziesʼ career in the espionage business but also his family background, education, and military service.
Hace 5 días · The head of SIS from 1939 to 1952 was Major General Sir Stewart Menzies, KCB, KCMG, DSO, MC. ( b. 30 January 1890 - d. 29 May 1968) Sir Stewart was known as "C" within the service which followed a well worn tradition. The heads of the Security Service during the war years were as follows: 1909 - 1940: Sir Vernon Kell (b. 1873 - d. 1942)
Hace 2 días · Stewart Menzies, the chief of SIS, was aggrieved to lose control of Section D. Where SIS preferred placid conditions in which it could gather intelligence and work through influential persons or authorities, SOE was intended to create unrest and turbulence, and often backed anti-establishment organisations, such as the Communists, in ...
Hace 3 días · The chief of SIS, Stewart Menzies, insisted on wartime control of codebreaking, and this gave him immense power and influence, which he used judiciously. By distributing the Ultra material collected by the Government Code & Cypher School , MI6 became, for the first time, an important branch of the government.
26 de abr. de 2024 · In May 1943, now named the Radio Intelligence Service (RIS), it reported directly to the chief of SIS, Sir Stewart Menzies. Footnote 16. Throughout its various movements on the organisational chart of World War II British intelligence, Trevor-Roper’s unit engaged in several tasks.
18 de abr. de 2024 · Dalton, the Foreign Secretary (Lord Halifax), the head of the Secret Intelligence Service (Stewart Menzies) and others attended, and Dalton took the opportunity to make a 'vigorous case for the separation of subversive warfare from military operations, and hence for control outside the service departments'.
21 de abr. de 2024 · Stewart Lee. Larger-than-life TV ... while Tory MP Mark Menzies allegedly rang an elderly local party volunteer at 3.15am to help raise £6,500 (or “four Angela Rayners”, as Vorderman would ...
