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Spymaster
06-06-2017
2017
wacky and real life
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captionIt took Maurice numerous attempts to get the look right for his official portrait on becoming Cheif of MI^ in 1973. THE INCREDIBLE life of Britain’s most decorated Cold War spy, head of MI6 and the inspiration for ‘M’ in James Bond has been revealed for the first time in a new book. Sir Maurice Oldfield handled defectors during the Second World War, fought the KGB during the Cold War and was Britain’s top spy in Washington at the time of the Cuba Missile Crisis and the assassination of President John F Kennedy. Oldfield even came out of retirement to take on the IRA in 1979 when he was appointed by Margaret Thatcher as Security Co-ordinator with a brief to “assist the Secretary of State in improving the co-ordination and effectiveness of the security effort in Northern Ireland”. The decision came after the queen’s cousin, Lord Louis Mountbatten was killed by an IRA bomb along with three others and 18 soldiers were murdered in a double bomb blast near Warrenpoint, the Army’s heaviest casualties in a single incident during the Troubles. The fascinating life story of one of Britain’s most decorated spies is told in intimate detail by his nephew Martin Pearce in his book, Spymaster. The book is published by Corgi.
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captionMaurice Oldfield aged nineteen; his first passport photograph. THE INCREDIBLE life of Britain’s most decorated Cold War spy, head of MI6 and the inspiration for ‘M’ in James Bond has been revealed for the first time in a new book. Sir Maurice Oldfield handled defectors during the Second World War, fought the KGB during the Cold War and was Britain’s top spy in Washington at the time of the Cuba Missile Crisis and the assassination of President John F Kennedy. Oldfield even came out of retirement to take on the IRA in 1979 when he was appointed by Margaret Thatcher as Security Co-ordinator with a brief to “assist the Secretary of State in improving the co-ordination and effectiveness of the security effort in Northern Ireland”. The decision came after the queen’s cousin, Lord Louis Mountbatten was killed by an IRA bomb along with three others and 18 soldiers were murdered in a double bomb blast near Warrenpoint, the Army’s heaviest casualties in a single incident during the Troubles. The fascinating life story of one of Britain’s most decorated spies is told in intimate detail by his nephew Martin Pearce in his book, Spymaster. The book is published by Corgi.
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captionMaurice Oldfield with the British Amabassador, david Ormsby-Gore (later Lord Harlech), and Foreign Secretary Alec Douglas-Home, in Washington at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. Ormsby-Gore had introduced Oldfield to the then Senator John F. Kennedy in 1960. THE INCREDIBLE life of Britain’s most decorated Cold War spy, head of MI6 and the inspiration for ‘M’ in James Bond has been revealed for the first time in a new book. Sir Maurice Oldfield handled defectors during the Second World War, fought the KGB during the Cold War and was Britain’s top spy in Washington at the time of the Cuba Missile Crisis and the assassination of President John F Kennedy. Oldfield even came out of retirement to take on the IRA in 1979 when he was appointed by Margaret Thatcher as Security Co-ordinator with a brief to “assist the Secretary of State in improving the co-ordination and effectiveness of the security effort in Northern Ireland”. The decision came after the queen’s cousin, Lord Louis Mountbatten was killed by an IRA bomb along with three others and 18 soldiers were murdered in a double bomb blast near Warrenpoint, the Army’s heaviest casualties in a single incident during the Troubles. The fascinating life story of one of Britain’s most decorated spies is told in intimate detail by his nephew Martin Pearce in his book, Spymaster. The book is published by Corgi.
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captionMaurice Oldfield visitng members of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Sinai in 1975. THE INCREDIBLE life of Britain’s most decorated Cold War spy, head of MI6 and the inspiration for ‘M’ in James Bond has been revealed for the first time in a new book. Sir Maurice Oldfield handled defectors during the Second World War, fought the KGB during the Cold War and was Britain’s top spy in Washington at the time of the Cuba Missile Crisis and the assassination of President John F Kennedy. Oldfield even came out of retirement to take on the IRA in 1979 when he was appointed by Margaret Thatcher as Security Co-ordinator with a brief to “assist the Secretary of State in improving the co-ordination and effectiveness of the security effort in Northern Ireland”. The decision came after the queen’s cousin, Lord Louis Mountbatten was killed by an IRA bomb along with three others and 18 soldiers were murdered in a double bomb blast near Warrenpoint, the Army’s heaviest casualties in a single incident during the Troubles. The fascinating life story of one of Britain’s most decorated spies is told in intimate detail by his nephew Martin Pearce in his book, Spymaster. The book is published by Corgi.
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captionJoe and Annie Oldfield (on the left) at the wedding of their daughter Freda to Jack Naylor. st anne's Church, Over Haddon, June 1955. THE INCREDIBLE life of Britain’s most decorated Cold War spy, head of MI6 and the inspiration for ‘M’ in James Bond has been revealed for the first time in a new book. Sir Maurice Oldfield handled defectors during the Second World War, fought the KGB during the Cold War and was Britain’s top spy in Washington at the time of the Cuba Missile Crisis and the assassination of President John F Kennedy. Oldfield even came out of retirement to take on the IRA in 1979 when he was appointed by Margaret Thatcher as Security Co-ordinator with a brief to “assist the Secretary of State in improving the co-ordination and effectiveness of the security effort in Northern Ireland”. The decision came after the queen’s cousin, Lord Louis Mountbatten was killed by an IRA bomb along with three others and 18 soldiers were murdered in a double bomb blast near Warrenpoint, the Army’s heaviest casualties in a single incident during the Troubles. The fascinating life story of one of Britain’s most decorated spies is told in intimate detail by his nephew Martin Pearce in his book, Spymaster. The book is published by Corgi.
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captionTony Cavendish, one of Maurice Oldfield's oldest and most loyal friends, with his dogs at home in Hampshire in 1977. The picture was taken by Maurice. THE INCREDIBLE life of Britain’s most decorated Cold War spy, head of MI6 and the inspiration for ‘M’ in James Bond has been revealed for the first time in a new book. Sir Maurice Oldfield handled defectors during the Second World War, fought the KGB during the Cold War and was Britain’s top spy in Washington at the time of the Cuba Missile Crisis and the assassination of President John F Kennedy. Oldfield even came out of retirement to take on the IRA in 1979 when he was appointed by Margaret Thatcher as Security Co-ordinator with a brief to “assist the Secretary of State in improving the co-ordination and effectiveness of the security effort in Northern Ireland”. The decision came after the queen’s cousin, Lord Louis Mountbatten was killed by an IRA bomb along with three others and 18 soldiers were murdered in a double bomb blast near Warrenpoint, the Army’s heaviest casualties in a single incident during the Troubles. The fascinating life story of one of Britain’s most decorated spies is told in intimate detail by his nephew Martin Pearce in his book, Spymaster. The book is published by Corgi.
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captionFamily Christmas Dinner, Over Haddon, 1974. From left: Sadie, John, Warren, Tom and Martin Pearce; Maurice, Annie and Renee Oldfield. THE INCREDIBLE life of Britain’s most decorated Cold War spy, head of MI6 and the inspiration for ‘M’ in James Bond has been revealed for the first time in a new book. Sir Maurice Oldfield handled defectors during the Second World War, fought the KGB during the Cold War and was Britain’s top spy in Washington at the time of the Cuba Missile Crisis and the assassination of President John F Kennedy. Oldfield even came out of retirement to take on the IRA in 1979 when he was appointed by Margaret Thatcher as Security Co-ordinator with a brief to “assist the Secretary of State in improving the co-ordination and effectiveness of the security effort in Northern Ireland”. The decision came after the queen’s cousin, Lord Louis Mountbatten was killed by an IRA bomb along with three others and 18 soldiers were murdered in a double bomb blast near Warrenpoint, the Army’s heaviest casualties in a single incident during the Troubles. The fascinating life story of one of Britain’s most decorated spies is told in intimate detail by his nephew Martin Pearce in his book, Spymaster. The book is published by Corgi.
