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  • The Honourable Woman is a 2014 British political spy thriller television miniseries in eight parts, directed and written by Hugo Blick for the BBC and...
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    John le Carré (category English spy fiction writers)
    pointless. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People (the Karla trilogy) brought Smiley back as the central figure in a sprawling...
    69 KB (6,423 words) - 15:48, 17 June 2024
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    Claude Maxwell MacDonald (category 20th-century British diplomats)
    KCB, PC (12 June 1852 – 10 September 1915) was a British soldier and diplomat, best known for his service in China and Japan. MacDonald was born the...
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  • Daphne Park (category British women diplomats)
    Park of Monmouth obituary Senior MI6 officer, diplomat and Tory peer, she was known as the 'Queen of Spies'". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 January 2021. "Obituary:...
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  • high-flying British diplomat on the Floor of the House. Honourable Members will understand that where big money is involved and as important names came...
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    26 January 2014 Sworn in as a Member of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council on 15 July 2016, upon his appointment as foreign secretary. This gave...
    404 KB (33,604 words) - 18:35, 16 June 2024
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    Diplomacy (redirect from Chief diplomat)
    both diplomats and spies, and some diplomats are essentially openly acknowledged spies. For instance, the job of military attachés includes learning as much...
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    William Forbes-Sempill, 19th Lord Sempill (category World War II spies for Japan)
    were uncovered by British Intelligence, Sempill was not prosecuted for spying, and was allowed to continue in public life. He was eventually forced to...
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  • Alfred Oliver Pollard (category Honourable Artillery Company officers)
    Army on 8 August 1914, enlisting in the Honourable Artillery Company (HAC). Up to that date, he had worked as a clerk at an insurance company. He spent...
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    Herbert, KCMG, CB, PC (25 June 1857 – 30 September 1903), was a British diplomat and ambassador. Sir Michael Herbert was the fourth and youngest son of...
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    September 1828 – 24 May 1902), known as Sir Julian Pauncefote between 1874 and 1899, was a British barrister, judge and diplomat. He was Permanent Under-Secretary...
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  • Casualty, Luther, Midsomer Murders, Father Brown, The Honourable Woman and Humans. In 2012, Boxer appeared as Francisco de Aguiar y Seijas in the RSC production...
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    Rory Stewart (category British diplomats)
    3 January 1973), known as Rory Stewart, is a British academic, broadcaster, and former diplomat and politician. He served as Member of Parliament (MP)...
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    1841 – 29 January 1917) was a British statesman, diplomat and colonial administrator. He served as the British controller-general in Egypt during 1879...
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  • Russian embassy in London. The first contact was with Russian diplomat and suspected spy Alexander Udod, in order to ask for a meeting with Russia's ambassador...
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    Richard Sorge (category German people convicted of spying for the Soviet Union)
    experiences as a diplomat in wartime. He met Sorge on some occasions. The Russian television mini-series Zorge (2019) An Impeccable Spy, biography by...
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  • instigation of German authorities, who fraudulently denounced him as a "Soviet spy". Foerster was tortured (also by Josef Meisinger) and forced to sell...
    16 KB (1,929 words) - 07:11, 11 January 2024
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    Meta Ramsay, Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale (category Scottish diplomats)
    Warrell, Helen (8 December 2022). "The secret lives of MI6's top female spies". Financial Times. Retrieved 20 December 2022. "No. 54554". The London Gazette...
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    October 1727 – 1 September 1796) known as the (7th) Viscount of Stormont from 1748 to 1793, was a British diplomat and politician. He succeeded to both...
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    Bundeswehr (de) Peter von Butler (diplomat) (1940–2014), German diplomat (de) Robert Treusch von Buttlar-Brandenfels, German spy who repeatedly switched sides...
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