Tag: spy-handler

“The mysterious Mr Knight: spymaster to be celebrated.” – Cage & Aviary Birds magazine July 18.

Posted on by Simon H King in BBC Natural History, Commemorative Maxwell Knight Symposium, Conservation, John E Cooper, Margaret Cooper, Maxwell Knight Symposium 2018, The Frightened Face of Nature

Thanks, Cage & Aviary Birds for the article "The Mysterious Mr Knight: spymaster to be celebrated" in this week's publication. Registration for the Maxwell Knight Symposium is via The British Herpetological Society website Organised by the British Herpetological Society (BHS), with support from the British Chelonia Group (BCG), the Amateur Entomologists Society (AES), the Institute … Continue reading “The mysterious Mr Knight: spymaster to be celebrated.” – Cage & Aviary Birds magazine July 18. →

Maxwell Knight – the spy-runner who loved nature

Posted on by Simon H King in Spy-runner, The spy who love nature

Maxwell Knight was the original “M”, a spy-runner who, with the help of young case officers, was responsible for counter-subversion and managed successfully to penetrate the British fascist movement. He was undeniably MI5’s most gifted agent-runner, and his sixth sense for enlisting would-be talented agents lead to him recruiting Joan Miller from within MI5 to … Continue reading Maxwell Knight – the spy-runner who loved nature →