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    Major General Sir Vernon George Waldegrave Kell, KBE, CB (21 November 1873 – 27 March 1942) was a British Army general and the founder and first Director...
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    formally part of the Home Office. Directors General have been: Maj Gen Sir Vernon Kell, 1909–1940 Brigadier 'Jasper' Harker, Acting, June 1940 – April 1941...
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    Intelligence Service, or MI6.) The founding head of the Army section was Vernon Kell of the South Staffordshire Regiment, who remained in that role until...
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    near Forres in the County of Moray. In 1909, Major (later Colonel Sir) Vernon Kell became director of the new Secret Service Bureau and created as a response...
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  • 6-9) Peter Vernon-Kell – piano (track 4) Pam Douglas – backing vocals (tracks 1, 5) Carol Ingram – backing vocals (tracks 1, 5) Peter Vernon-Kell – producer...
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    command of Captain Sir Vernon Kell and a Foreign Section under Commander Sir Mansfield Cumming. Melville's unit was folded into Kell's department, which,...
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  • timbales, (tracks 1, 4, 7-8) Godfrey Maclean – drums, (track 8) Peter Vernon-Kell – producer Neil Hornby - Mixing at Ramport Dave Crawford – mastering...
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  • Lennox Langton – percussion Jeff Daly – saxophone Peter Vernon-Kell – producer Peter Vernon-Kell & Roy Shipston – arrangements Mike Cooper – engineer, mixing...
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    entrepreneur Frank Kell of Wichita Falls, bought a mill in Vernon. Kell's business partner was W. O. Anderson. Major businesses and industries in Vernon include...
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    Thomas Timothy Vernon-Kell (born 10 May 1981) is an English self-taught multi-instrumentalist musician who works under the name of Tom Vek. Born in Hounslow...
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  • Feinberg Gerard H. L. Fitzwilliams Herambalal Gupta George Alexander Hill Vernon Kell Vincent Kraft Henry Landau Gerard Leachman René Lefebvre Yosef Lishansky...
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  • espionage during World War I. He became the Service's deputy to Sir Vernon Kell, serving through to the beginning of World War II. Born in Norwich, Norfolk...
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  • Skeeter Kell (1929–2015), American baseball player Trey Kell (born 1996), American basketball player Troy Kell (born 1968), American murderer Vernon Kell (1873–1942)...
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  • to acting Director General of MI5 in June 1940 when Major-General Sir Vernon Kell was dismissed. When Sir David Petrie was appointed as the new Director...
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    Sir Vernon Kell, originally aimed at calming public fears of large-scale German espionage. As the Service was not authorized with police powers, Kell liaised...
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    included John Arnold Wallinger, Sir Robert Nathan, Sir Harold Stuart, Vernon Kell, Sir Charles Stevenson-Moore and Sir Charles Tegart, as well as W. Somerset...
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  • BBC executive Colonel Alan Dawnay began to meet the head of MI5, Sir Vernon Kell, to informally trade information; from 1935, a formal arrangement was...
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    Sir Vernon Kell, originally aimed at calming public fears of large-scale German espionage. As the Service was not authorized with police powers, Kell liaised...
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  • located around Britain, would not work. At the start of World War II, Vernon Kell, the head of MI5, introduced a contingency plan to deal with the problem...
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  • War, Prime Minister Winston Churchill sacked Director-General of MI5 Vernon Kell and in June 1940 Liddell was promoted to Director of B Division in charge...
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    of Military Intelligence (DoMI) under Captain (later Major-General) Vernon Kell; overseas intelligence gathering began in 1912 by MI6 under Commander...
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  • Dave Mattacks – drums Jeff Whittaker – percussion Produced by Peter Vernon-Kell (1-3, 5-10, 13), Peter Green & Geoff Robinson (1,4, 11-12, 14) "Legend...
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  • late Sir George Makgill who was then running agents on behalf of Sir Vernon Kell, Director General of the British Security Service, MI5. I remained with...
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    professionally. With the help of his brother Michael, he was signed to Peter Vernon-Kell's PVK label, and produced a string of solo albums starting with 1979's...
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    literature came to define the early duties of the Bureau's Home Section. Vernon Kell, the section head, remained obsessed with the location of these saboteurs...
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  • Hopkinson John Wallinger Indian Political Intelligence Basil Thomson MI5(g) Vernon Kell Robert Nathan Kirpal Singh Oren Vincent Kraft William Wiseman Charles...
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  • by renaming the MO5(g) MI5(g) in 1916. The MI5 itself, working under Vernon Kell, had a number of India experts at the beginning of the war. In September...
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  • have the resources to mount sufficient surveillance to apprehend him. Vernon Kell, head of MI5, claimed to have ordered the arrest of 22 of Steinhauer's...
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    jointly headed by Captain Vernon Kell and Lieutenant-Commander Mansfield Cumming. They soon split their responsibilities; Kell took charge of counter-espionage...
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    Belgian person. On 31 July 1926 the head of the Security Service, Sir Vernon Kell, passed papers to the Metropolitan Police that alleged Stranders was...
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