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Jimmy Burns on The Faithful Spy

Jimmy Burns on The Faithful Spy

Walter Bell was a spy in both MI5 and MI6. His biographer chats about Bell and his life.
Jimmy Burns

Jimmy Burns, who was Walter Bell? When Water Bell died in January 2004, aged ninety-four, the details of his life-not least of his professional career in the British secret services during a defining period in the history of modern espionage and security-remained a...

Secrets & The Public Interest

Secrets & The Public Interest

The story of Walter Bell, MI6 and MI5 officer.
Jimmy Burns

Secrets & The Public Interest In October 2005, while the late MI6 and MI5 officer Walter Bell’s personal papers were gathering dust , undiscovered in the basement of his London home, the historian Peter Hennessy, in the prestigious  annual Cambridge Hinsley...