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Employer Graham Greene
Back in England, Greene continued work for the Iberian department of the Secret Intelligence Service for most of the war, monitoring espionage which was carried out in Gibraltar, Lisbon, Madrid, and Tangier—all cities which were...
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Jenkins
EJ writes warmly of both her brothers in her memoirs, but sources such as obituaries are curiously silent about them. Her next brother, Romilly James Heald Jenkins , her junior by less than sixteen months...
Friends, Associates Graham Greene
GG 's friends spanned the political spectrum. He was a friend of the famously Communist actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin , but also of powerful Conservatives like the Tory MP Victor Cazalet . Later in...
Occupation Muriel Spark
MS began on a top-secret job: writing anti-Nazi propaganda for MI6 , the Political Intelligence Department of the British Foreign Office .
Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2009.
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Spark, Muriel. Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. Constable, 1992.
148
Baldwin, Dean, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 139. Gale Research, 1994.
139: 228
Author summary Graham Greene
An English novelist of exceptional energy, Graham Greene built a career spanning a dozen genres—most notably more than twenty novels or thrillers, as well as short stories, film reviews, travel books, plays, screenplays, and autobiography...
Textual Features Ann Bridge
Julia's husband, Philip, has died in mysterious circumstances in Soviet Central Asia (possibly Afghanistan), a place of stray bullets and booby-traps, while on a mission for the British Intelligence Service (a branch of the...
Textual Features Lesley Storm
This play effectively portrays the aftermath in Britain of the defection of Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean , who fled to the Soviet Union on 25 May 1951 after years of spying for Communist Russia...
Textual Features Maggie Gee
This is also a state-of-England novel, set in a modern Britain which is both both glitzy and frightening. Indeed, the level of looming threat in the story, both explicit and inexplicit, makes it quite hard...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sarah Daniels
A theatre website calls this a witty and slightly surreal comedy. Three elderly women living in a quiet corner of Hertfordshire enjoy reminiscing about their adventurous pasts working for the secret service during the second...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Muriel Spark
It covers Spark's formative years and her career up to the point of her first literary breakthrough, but it reveals little that was not known before. Its precise and charmingly evocative memories of Edinburgh almost...

Timeline

1909: A secret intelligence service was formed...

National or international item

1909

A secret intelligence service was formed in Britain in which two branches quickly developed: MI5 , the internal branch (later the Security Service ) and MI6 , the foreign branch (later the Secret Intelligence Service or SIS).
Porter, Bernard. “Other People’s Mail”. London Review of Books, Vol.
31
, No. 22, 19 Nov. 2009, pp. 15-17.
15

27 October 1941: US President Roosevelt made a strongly pro-war...

Writing climate item

27 October 1941

US President Roosevelt made a strongly pro-war speech drawing attention to Nazi designs against South America (and therefore the USA), based partly on intelligence from BSC or British Security Coordination .
Boyd, William. “The Secret Persuaders”. The Guardian, 19 Aug. 2006, pp. Weekend 26 - 31.
Weekend 26, 29

20 July 1944: High-ranking German officers made an unsuccessful...

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20 July 1944

High-ranking German officers made an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Hitler at his headquarters.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
183
Spark, Muriel. Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. Constable, 1992.
151

: About a week after the Cuban missile crisis...

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Late autumn 1962

About a week after the Cuban missile crisis eased, a Russian agent, Colonel Oleg Penkovsky , used in a phone call to his MI6 contact the pre-arranged code that signified nuclear attack was imminent.
Rose, David. “The Closest Call”. The Observer, 3 Mar. 2002, p. Review 15.
Review 15

: About a week after the Cuban missile crisis...

National or international item

Late autumn 1962

About a week after the Cuban missile crisis eased, a Russian agent, Colonel Oleg Penkovsky , used in a phone call to his MI6 contact the pre-arranged code that signified nuclear attack was imminent.
Rose, David. “The Closest Call”. The Observer, 3 Mar. 2002, p. Review 15.
Review 15

January 1963: Kim Philby, perhaps the cleverest of the...

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January 1963

Kim Philby , perhaps the cleverest of the group of Britons who had been spying for Soviet Russia for years, was confronted with his guilt and offered immunity in exchange for a full confession. Instead...

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