Mansfield Smith-Cumming
Sir William Wiseman, 10th Baronet
...but, following injury, transferred to military intelligence. He was sent by Secret Intelligence Service director, Mansfield Smith-Cumming, to establish the agency's office in New York ,...
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William Melville
...command of Captain (Later General) Sir Vernon Kell and a Foreign Section under Commander (later Admiral) Sir Mansfield Cumming. Melville's unit was folded into Kells department, which,...
Sidney Reilly
...espionage successes did garner indirect recognition. After a formal recommendation by Sir Mansfield "C" Smith-Cumming , Reilly, who had been commissioned into the Royal Flying...
Mansfield Smith-Cumming
...Moray. As part of the marriage settlement he changed his surname to Smith-Cumming, later becoming known as Cumming. Their only son, Alastair, a dangerous driver like his father, was...
Green ink
...frequently obsessed with supposed conspiracies and plots, so it may be no coincidence that Sir Mansfield Cumming , the first chief of MI6, would only write memoranda and...
He wrote in his diary: "Went to the office and remained all day but saw no one, nor was there anything to do there. "
Top secret: A century of British espionage Independent.co.uk - UK | 5 months ago
Maurice Oldfield
...patsy in the affair. All Souls made Oldfield a visiting fellow in 1978, where he began a study of Captain Sir Mansfield Cumming, the first C, but soon lost interest in it through lack...
Diogenes Club
...Messervy and Waverly . In the sequel, The Bloody Red Baron, the club's Ruling Cabal consists of Holmes, Mansfield Smith-Cumming, and Newman's original character Charles Beauregard.
Top secret: A century of British espionage
...had fought in operations against Malay pirates before seasickness saw him declared unfit for service. He was recruited by naval intelligence and sent to Southampton to mastermind the...
Spies like them
...stage, fiction was rubbing off on the real world of espionage, says Alan Judd, the biographer of Sir Mansfield Cumming, who was the first head of what became MI6. "Le Queux knew some...
UN diplomat is new chief of UK's MI6 spy agency
</p><p>Like all heads of MI6, Sawers will be known as "C" in tribute to the agency's first chief Capt. Mansfield Cumming - who signed himself "C" in green ink on official documents.
Scandal, spin and cover-up: Secret Whitehall
...in the War Office in Whitehall and rented flat 54 at No 2 Whitehall Court. Cumming became known as 'C' because he always signed memos with his initial in green ink. MI6 has its...
Cool-headed father of 007 saved MI6
...of their relations working as spies. The first "chief" of the British secret service was a naval commander, Mansfield Smith-Cumming. He was known simply as "C", a title that has...
