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At Her Majestys Secret Service: The Chiefs of Britains Intelligence Service, MI6

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English
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Non-Fiction

In August 1909, a kindly, balding, figure named Mansfield Smith-Cumming was summoned to London by Admiral Alexander Bethell, Director of Naval Intelligence. He was to assume the inaugural position of Chief – more famously known as ‘C – of what has become

© 2016 Frontline Books (Ebook): 9781848328952

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Ebook: 30 June 2016

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