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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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    then-Commander Mansfield Smith-Cumming offered him a "new billet": the opportunity to head the Foreign Section of the new Secret Service Bureau. Cumming was to...
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  • head of MI6 signing their name with a single letter came from Mansfield Smith-Cumming, who would sign his initial "C", with green ink. Another possibility...
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    William Melville died of kidney failure in February 1918. Sir Mansfield Smith-Cumming Sidney Reilly Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart Vernon Kell Sir James Melville...
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  • Virginia Mansfield (surname), people with the surname Mansfield (All-England cricketer, 1778) Mansfield Smith-Cumming, British spymaster Lord Mansfield (William...
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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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    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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    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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    portrait of the first head of the Secret Intelligence Service, Mansfield Smith-Cumming, the original 'C'. In the book Literary Agents (1987), Anthony...
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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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    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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  • Sinclair 1919–1939  United Kingdom Secret Intelligence Service Mansfield Smith-Cumming 1909–1923  United Kingdom Secret Intelligence Service Richard Sorge...
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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 and...
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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 which...
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    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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  • be closely based on the first "C" (chief, or director) of MI6, Mansfield Smith-Cumming. There is no documentary evidence that Wilson had any connections...
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    seems to have been valued highly by his superiors, including Sir Mansfield Smith-Cumming, his passionate political views, especially his support for the...
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  • politician John Graham-Cumming, British computer programmer Mansfield Smith-Cumming (1859–1923), British spymaster Clan Cumming Cummings (surname) This...
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  • greenfinger than Goldfinger Obituary: Sir Peter Smithers". Financial Times. London. p. 4. "Obituary: Sir Peter Smithers". The Times. London. 15 June 2006. p. 62...
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    Alexander Hill and Malcolm Wollcombe, agent in the Soviet Union for Mansfield Smith-Cumming. Stewart Menzies who had the official liaison role at the War Office...
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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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    Archer and his father Walter Archer were recruited as agents by Mansfield Smith-Cumming, the first director of the Secret Intelligence Service, who gave...
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    In 1912, Archer and his son Hugh were recruited as agents by Mansfield Smith-Cumming, the first director of the Secret Intelligence Service, who gave...
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  • Osea Island in Essex, England. He was asked in late 1918 by Sir Mansfield Smith-Cumming, head of the foreign section of the British Secret Intelligence...
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    where their new handler was Captain Henry Landau. After the war, Mansfield Smith-Cumming, head of the Secret Service, estimated that Dame Blanche had supplied...
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    later moved to St. Petersburg, having been recruited personally by Mansfield Smith-Cumming, the first "C" of MI6 (SIS), to act as a secret agent in Imperial...
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  • intelligence agencies at Whitehall. In late January 1919, Bell met with Mansfield Smith-Cumming and officially became an MI6 agent, with Canada underwriting the...
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  • symbol Gaius or C Center Party (Sweden), a Swedish political party Mansfield Smith-Cumming or C (1859–1923), Chief of the SIS, the UK Secret Intelligence...
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  • Figures: Mansfield Smith-Cumming, Alexander Cartwright 23 10 "Sherman Exchange Program" "Charles Dickens" Miles Thompson John T. Reynolds & Matt Smith Bernie...
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