Spymaster: The Life of Britain's Most Decorated Cold War Spy and Head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield

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What was mysterious about Uncle Maurice was that, given he was a spymaster, he really never seemed very mysterious at all. I didn’t want to talk to anybody. Someone called Caroline Coon wanted desperately to interview me. I did one interview for Melody Maker and it was horrible, intrusive, rude, wanting to know ‘why’ to everything. Go away and leave me alone! The naughty step is out and the feelings wheel is in! Psychological tool developed in 1980 is having a revival among trendy millennial parents - and even Kate has praised it

I moved house to Througham Slad in Gloucestershire. It took a couple of years to set up a recording studio there. I laid all my kit out in the stables for the pictures in the Boxed set. I got into big trouble with the locals, who were all into hunting. [Affects an upper-class British accent] “How can you destroy these beautiful stables?” After working at regional titles all over the country, Neil eventually ended up as a regional editorial director for Reach, the company that owns the Manchester Evening News and Liverpool Echo, as well as countless other titles all over the UK. During that time, as the internet decimated local newspapers’ business models, the number of staff on many regional titles shrunk dramatically.Sir Anthony said that the Royal Ulster Constabulary, MI6, MI5, the British Ministry of Defence, the Northern Ireland Office and the Belfast County Borough Welfare Committee and Department, and its successor, the Eastern Health and Social Services Board, would be investigated.

Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, Smear: Wilson & The Secret State, Fourth Estate Limited, 1991, p.297.MI5 saw him as a threat to their activities in Northern Ireland," claimed Colin Wallace, who served in the Army's Intelligence Corps here in the 1970s. The hotel, which has four guest bedrooms, is described as providing ‘old-fashioned hospitality, opportunities for relaxation and great food served in the heart of the Peak District National Park’. little, tubby man with spectacles. Was never the model for Smiley, I didn't meet him till after I'd invented Smiley but the press wouldn't wear that…"] Oldfield was posted to Cairo in early 1945. He replaced Trethowan as head of A section of SIME and eventually became the right hand man of SIME's commanding officer, Brigadier Douglas Roberts. [11]

I put all the elements together, like chemicals in a big Petrie dish. I didn’t try to interfere too much. Bit by bit, as I heard little tunes, it just grew.

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