Stewart Menzies
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Born | 30 January 1890 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 29 May 1968 (Age 78) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sir Stewart Menzies was head of the Secret Intelligence Service from 1939[1] to 1952.[2]
Career
Menzies had joined intelligence by 1916.[3] By 1929 he was Deputy Chief of the SIS and he was promoted to full colonel soon afterwards.[4]
Closure of SOE
Menzies, a friend of Winston Churchill, was "a master at using his political and social connections to win time and eventual survival for SIS, indeed so successful was he that in 1946 he persuaded the Labour Government to close down SOE and transfer its best staff and most promising operations to SIS."[3]
Appointments by Stewart Menzies
Appointee | Job | Appointed | End | Description |
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Edward Beddington-Behrens | Deputy Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service | 6 March 1943 | 1944 | Deputy Director/Army (DD/A) |
John Cordeaux | Deputy Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service | 6 March 1943 | 1945 | Deputy Director/Navy |
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References
- ↑ Stephen Dorril, MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Touchstone, 2002, p.4.
- ↑ Stephen Dorril, MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Touchstone, 2002, p.494.
- ↑ a b The Mechanisms of an Oppressive State
- ↑ C: The Secret Life of Sir Stewart Graham Menzies, by Anthony Cave Brown, 1987.