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29 September 1967. ( 1967-09-29) –. 1 February 1968. ( 1968-02-01) The Prisoner is a British television series created by Patrick McGoohan, with possible contributions from George Markstein. [2] McGoohan portrays Number Six, an unnamed British intelligence agent who is abducted and imprisoned in a mysterious coastal village after resigning ...
Greville Maynard Wynne (19 March 1919 [1] – 28 February 1990) was a British engineer and businessman recruited by MI6 because of his frequent travel to Eastern Europe. He acted as a courier to transport top-secret information to London from the Soviet agent Oleg Penkovsky. Wynne and Penkovsky were both arrested by the KGB in November 1962 ...
Alma mater. Downing College, Cambridge. George Blake ( né Behar; 11 November 1922 – 26 December 2020) was a spy with Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) and worked as a double agent for the Soviet Union. He became a communist and decided to work for the MGB while a prisoner during the Korean War.
The Courier is a 2020 historical spy film directed by Dominic Cooke and written by Tom O'Connor. The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Greville Wynne, and is based on the true story of a British businessman who was recruited by the Secret Intelligence Service to be a message conduit with Russian spy source Oleg Penkovsky (played by Merab Ninidze) in the 1960s. [3]
Aaron Aaronsohn; Sarah Aaronsohn; Gertrude Bell; Louise de Bettignies; Joseph W. Boyle; R. H. Bruce Lockhart; Cecil Aylmer Cameron; Marthe Cnockaert; Claude Dansey
24 May 1972. ( 1972-05-24) Callan is a British action - drama spy television series created by James Mitchell, first airing between 1967 and 1972. It starred Edward Woodward as David Callan, an agent of a state secret service dealing with internal security threats to the United Kingdom. Though portrayed as having responsibilities similar to ...
The Cambridge Five was a ring of spies in the United Kingdom that passed information to the Soviet Union during the Second World War and the Cold War and was active from the 1930s until at least the early 1950s. None of the known members were ever prosecuted for spying. The number and membership of the ring emerged slowly, from the 1950s onwards.
Sidney George Reilly MC (/ ˈ r aɪ l i /; c. 1873 [a] – 5 November 1925), known as the "Ace of Spies", was a Russian-born adventurer and secret agent employed by Scotland Yard's Special Branch and later by the Foreign Section of the British Secret Service Bureau, [9] the precursor to the modern British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6/SIS).