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  1. Major General Sir Stewart Graham Menzies, KCB, KCMG, DSO, MC (/ ˈ m ɪ ŋ ɪ z / ⓘ; 30 January 1890 – 29 May 1968) was Chief of MI6, the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), from 1939 to 1952, during and after the Second World War.

  2. Aug 8, 2021 · Learn about the life and achievements of Sir Stewart Menzies, the head of British intelligence during World War II, who was the model for Ian Fleming's \"M\" and John Le Carre's \"Control\". Discover how he cracked the German Enigma code, fooled Hitler, and kept Ultra a secret for 40 years.

  3. Dec 27, 1987 · THE massive but mysterious figure of Sir Stewart Graham Menzies dominates the history of British intelligence like a muscle-bound ghost. He began to work for intelligence in 1915, and at the...

  4. Jan 1, 1987 · C: The Secret Life of Sir Stewart Graham Menzies,Spymaster to Winston Churchill. Hardcover – January 1, 1987. The only journalist ever to interview "C" presents a definitive, illustrated biography of the British spymaster and a chronicle of his legendary career.

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  5. Stewart Menzies, the second son of John Graham Menzies (1861–1911) and his wife, Susannah West Wilson (1865–1943), was born in London on 30th January 1890. He entered Eton College in 1903, and there won prizes for languages that included the king's prize for German in 1907. On leaving school, in 1909, he was commissioned in the Grenadier ...

  6. Saturday March 23 2019, 12.01am, The Times. S ir Stewart Menzies, the wartime chief of MI6, was wily, enigmatic, ruthless, clever and extremely posh. He was said to be the illegitimate son of ...

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  8. Mar 1, 1988 · In the end Menzies emerges much the same as one might have thought before on the basis of such serious and incisive books as Christopher Andrews' Her Majesty's Secret Service: very spotty in his judgment of people and operations within his own secret intelligence bailiwick (notably in the Venlo Incident); effective in helping to get important ...

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