The Spy Who Came in from the Circus
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The Spy Who Came in from the Circus

The Secret Life of Cyril Bertram Mills

  1. 384 pages
  2. English
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The Spy Who Came in from the Circus

The Secret Life of Cyril Bertram Mills

About this book

For almost half a century, Bertram Mills Circus was a household name throughout Britain among both children and adults and it's Director, Cyril Bertram Mills, was one of the best-known and most influential names in the country's entertainment business.

But for forty years, Cyril Mills had also enjoyed a top-secret and wide-ranging career in British intelligence: obtaining the best aerial intelligence on Nazi rearmament for MI6 before the Second World War; becoming the first case officer to monitor the best double agent (Garbo) of the war after joining MI5; and working part-time during the Cold War 'for MI5 or 6 or both without being paid a penny'.

Remarkably, no word of Mills's secret career appeared in public until he was over eighty. Nobody suspected that the glamorous world of pre-war circus entertainment had been an extraordinarily fitting rehearsal for the lethal arena of deception and surveillance. In this remarkable true story, Christopher Andrew, best-selling official biographer of MI5, brings to life one of the most surprising and fascinating tales of espionage ever told.

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Information

Publisher
Biteback Publishing
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781785908217
eBook ISBN
9781785908866

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Contents
  3. List of Illustrations
  4. Abbreviations and Acronyms
  5. Introduction: The Two Lives of Cyril Bertram Mills: Circus and Espionage
  6. Chapter 1: Harrow School and Cambridge University
  7. Chapter 2: The Circus, Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill
  8. Chapter 3: Spying by Biplane
  9. Chapter 4: MI5 in Wartime: From Prison to Palace
  10. Chapter 5: Double-Cross: Millsā€™s ā€˜Licence to Killā€™ and the Triumph of GARBO
  11. Chapter 6: ā€˜A Man Called Intrepidā€™ and the Special Relationship
  12. Chapter 7: Double-Cross in Canada and Atomic Secrets
  13. Chapter 8: Cold War: From Gouzenkoā€™s Defection to the Berlin Wall
  14. Chapter 9: The Russian Embassy, Mills and Operation FOOT
  15. Chapter 10: Mills Unmasked
  16. Conclusion: The Spy Who Came in from the Circus
  17. Bibliography
  18. Acknowledgements
  19. Index
  20. Plates
  21. Copyright