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    Captain Sir Mansfield George Smith-Cumming KCMG CB (1 April 1859 – 14 June 1923) was a British naval officer who served as the first chief of the Secret...
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    Imperial German government. Its first director was Captain Sir George Mansfield Smith-Cumming alias "C". The Secret Service Bureau was split into a foreign...
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    Imperial German Government. Its first director was Captain Sir George Mansfield Smith-Cumming. In 1910, the bureau was split into naval and army sections...
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    MI6 whose first director was Captain Sir George Mansfield Smith-Cumming. Often dropping the "Smith", Cumming used his initial "C" as a codename which...
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  • programmer Mansfield Smith-Cumming (1859–1923), British spymaster Clan Cumming Cummings (surname) This page lists people with the surname Cumming. If an internal...
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  • Petit St John Philby Oswald Rayner Hugh Sinclair Kirpal Singh Mansfield Smith-Cumming Bertrand Stewart Basil Thomson Christopher Draper Peter Ashmun...
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    headquarters until the end of the First World War. A blue plaque in Mansfield Smith-Cumming's name at the SIS headquarters at 2 Whitehall Court was unveiled...
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    Secret Service was started by its first director, Captain Sir Mansfield George Smith-Cumming (1859–1923), who signed himself with a C written in green ink...
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  • Ian Charleson as R. H. Bruce Lockhart Norman Rodway as Captain Mansfield Smith-Cumming Tom Bell as Felix Dzerzhinsky David Burke as Joseph Stalin Kenneth...
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    Vernon Kell (category Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George)
    War Office and the Admiralty as one of two officers, alongside Mansfield Smith-Cumming, to head the newly formed Secret Service Bureau. He retired from...
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  • intelligence. He was sent by Secret Intelligence Service director, Mansfield Smith-Cumming, to establish the agency's office in New York, 'Section V'. As...
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    residents included the philosopher John Stuart Mill at No. 40, Mansfield Smith-Cumming, the founder of MI6 at No. 21, and Admiral “Jacky” Fisher at No...
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    Venn, Cambridge University Press, 1953, p. 31 Cumming, D. (1987). The Gentleman Savage: The Life of Mansfield Parkyns, 1823–1894. London: Century Hutchinson...
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    for terms up to five years. Thus, the day before Reilly met Sir Mansfield Smith-Cumming ("C") in London for debriefing, the Russian Izvestia newspaper...
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  • name: "C". This originates from the initial used by Captain Sir Mansfield Smith-Cumming, RN, an early chief of the service, who signed his letters "C"...
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     50. Cumming 2004, pp. 18–19. Cumming 2004, p. 40. Cumming 2004, p. 42. Cumming 2004, p. 93. Cumming 2004, p. 142. Cumming 2004, pp. 186–188. Cumming 2004...
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    Intelligence. Its first director was Captain Sir Mansfield George Smith-Cumming, who often dropped the Smith in routine communication. He typically signed...
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  • ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 15 July 2024. "Swindon Town sign Clarke from Mansfield". BBC Sport. 31 May 2024. Retrieved 1 June 2024. "Norwich agree deal to...
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    Democrat on the Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Ellison D. Smith, Russell became the chairman of that subcommittee. This gave Russell a lot...
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    Service discovered that semen made a good invisible ink, Sir Mansfield George Smith-Cumming noted of his agents that "Every man (is) his own stylo". The...
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    own ends." Newspaper reporter Michael Smith suggested that British Secret Intelligence Bureau head Mansfield Cumming ordered three of his agents in Russia...
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    desirous of accompanying the regiment, but, at the request of his mother, George II of Great Britain induced him to remain at home to finish his education...
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  • presenters included: James Burke (1965–1971) Michael Rodd (1972–1982) Anthony Smith Lyall Watson William Woollard (1974–1978) Judith Hann (1974–1994—the longest-serving...
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    Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso (category Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George)
    Service. He had dealings with George Alexander Hill and Malcolm Wollcombe, agent in the Soviet Union for Mansfield Smith-Cumming. Stewart Menzies who had the...
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  • (died 1920) 26 March – A. E. Housman, poet (died 1936) 1 April – Mansfield Smith-Cumming, naval officer and first director of the Secret Intelligence Service...
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    Norman Ernest Archer (category Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George)
    name "Sage" by the Secret Intelligence Service's first director Mansfield Smith-Cumming to spy on German ships in Norwegian and Danish waters. Norman Archer...
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    William, Duke of Cumberland Brigadier-General Hanway Robert Cumming Major-General George Gordon Cunliffe (1829–1900), Bengal Staff Corps Brigadier-General...
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  • Sinclair 1919–1939  United Kingdom Secret Intelligence Service Mansfield Smith-Cumming 1909–1923  United Kingdom Secret Intelligence Service Richard Sorge...
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    Burrowes, Lambert Cadwalader, George Walker Campbell, Jabez Campfield, Samuel Conn, John Conway, Richard Cox, John Noble Cumming, Ephraim Darby, Elias Dayton...
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  • The Bloody Red Baron (category Cultural depictions of David Lloyd George)
    Pershing Mary Pickford Grigori Rasputin William Robertson Saki Mansfield Smith-Cumming J. R. R. Tolkien Hugh Trenchard King Victor of Britain H. G. Wells...
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