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19 de jun. de 2024 · MI5 was formed in 1909 under the leadership of Vernon Kell, then a captain in the British army, to identify and counteract German spies then working in Britain, which it did with great effect. Kell retired as a major general in 1924 and was later knighted but remained in charge of the agency until 1940.
18 de jun. de 2024 · Unknown to most of his staff, for six years following the victory in the First World War, Vernon Kell, the head of MI5, fought a relentless battle for the survival of his organisation.
20 de jun. de 2024 · These had the effect of causing widespread paranoia and as a result in 1909 Mansfield Smith-Cumming and Vernon Kell created the Secret Service Bureau. Smith-Cumming was a naval officer, who reportedly suffered from sea sickness, and Kell who was an army chief.
20 de jun. de 2024 · These had the effect of causing widespread paranoia and as a result in 1909 Mansfield Smith-Cumming and Vernon Kell created the Secret Service Bureau. Smith-Cumming was a naval officer, who reportedly suffered from sea sickness, and Kell who was an army chief.
15 de jun. de 2024 · Regardless, its leader Vernon Kell was ambitious and in 1912 set up a mass registry on suspicious persons, which included foreigners and British civilians. In 1911 Parliament passed The Official Secrets Act 1911 which allowed investigations into suspicious persons and shifted the burden of proof to the accused. [53]
Hace 2 días · 1909 - 1940: Sir Vernon Kell (b. 1873 - d. 1942) 1940 - 1941: Brigadier Oswald Allen Harker. 1941 - 1946: Sir David Petrie (b. 1879 - d. 1961) When hitler announced Operation Sealion on 16 th July 1940, which was intended as an invasion plan for Britain beginning in the middle of August, Churchill rapidly instated a new covert operations service.
Hace 1 día · Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, 1st Baronet, GCB, DSO (5 May 1864 – 22 June 1922) was one of the most senior British Army staff officers of the First World War and was briefly an Irish unionist politician.
