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| Maxwell Knight |
Maxwell Knight was placed in charge of B5b, a unit that conducted the monitoring of political subversion. This was despite being a member of the British Fascisti (BF), an organization established to counter the growing powers of the Labour Party and the Trade Union movement. He burgled the offices of Communist and Labour Party organisations in Scotland.
J.F.C. Carter, the Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police found out and argued that Maxwell Knight was “doing the whole of this thing for the Conservative Party”. Carter added that Ramsay MacDonald, the prime minister, was “against this sort of work”.
It is well known that Knight bought 308 Hood House as a search will show. It is less well known that he bought a second flat 10 Collingwood House where he established his secretary see below.
This secretary, Joan Miller later moved in with Knight but she soon realised she was being used as a cover for Knights homosexuality and became his second ex wife.
One of Knights agents was Ian Fleming and the ‘M’ character in the James Bond books is partly based on Knight. Tom Driberg was also one of his agents as were Kim Philby, Guy Burgess and William Joyce! (more...)
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