Basil Thomson

...German intelligence in Brussels, Rotterdam, and St Petersburg. At the outbreak of war he was able to work with Vernon Kell and Sir Basil Thomson of the Special Branch to arrest twenty-two German spies in England. Eleven were executed, as...

In this article: SIS, Vernon Kell, Special Branch, World War I, and London

...of Army Colonel Ormande de l'Eppe Winter as Chief of a new Combined Intelligence Service (CIS) for Ireland. Working closely with Sir Basil Thomson, Director of Civil Intelligence in the Home Office, with Colonel Hill Dillon, Chief of...

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Sir Basil Home Thomson, KCB (21 April 1861 - 26 March 1939) was a British intelligence officer, police officer, prison governor, colonial administrator, and writer. Thomson was born in Oxford, where his father, William Thomson (who would...

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...officers Robert Nathan and HL Stephenson. His worked at the time close to the Special Branch of the Scotland Yard headed by Basil Thomson, and was successful in tracing the works of Indian revolutionaries who worked along with the Germans...

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...organizations, such as MI5 (under Vernon Kell), MI6 (under Mansfield Smith-Cumming) and the Special Branch of Scotland Yard (under Basil Thomson). Thanks to intercepts from Room 40, Hall was instrumental in the interception of the...

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...another ex-Indian police official, H.L. Stephenson. He headed at the time the political branch of the Secret service, and along with Basil Thomson who headed the Special Branch of the Scotland Yard, Nathan was closely involved in the...

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Baker's side of the case may be found in Mennell's Dictionary of Australasian Biography, published in 1892. An opposing view is in Basil Thomson's The Diversions of a Prime Minister, pp. 3 to 25. R. L. Stevenson who called Baker "the defamed...

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...police official by the name of HL Stephenson. He headed at the time the political branch of the Secret service, and along with Basil Thomson who headed the Special Branch of the Scotland Yard, Nathan was closely involved in the interrogation...

In this article: World War I, John Wallinger, Har Dayal, Europe, and India

Last updated at 8:36 AM on 19th February 2009 Frowning as he sat in his office at Scotland Yard, Sir Basil Thomson, the assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, found himself transfixed by a flimsy ten page publication said to...

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...through an associate of Har Dayal, Gobind Behari Lal. <Ref name=Popplewell224> It was also responsible at this time, along with Basil Thomson, for the capture of Harish Chandra (who was associated with the Berlin committee) and turning him...

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