Major-General Sir Vernon Kell (1873-1942)
The head of MI5 from its formation in 1908 through to 1940, when he was dismissed by WINSTON CHURCHILL. ANNA WOLKOFF knew Kell socially and she wrote to him for advice after she had been warned that her activities could get her into trouble. |
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Joseph P. Kennedy (1888-1969)
The patriarch of the famous clan who was American Ambassador in London from
1938 to 1940. He paved the way for the search of TYLER KENT's flat and his
subsequent arrest by waiving his Diplomatic Immunity.
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Tyler Gatewood Kent (1911-1988)
Tyler Kent joined the American Embassy in Moscow in 1934 as a code and cipher clerk. He was transferred to the London Embassy in October 1939, shortly after the outbreak of war. He had a flair for languages and spoke ‘wonderful Russian’. He was arrested on 20 May 1940 and after a secret trial, he was handed down seven years’ penal servitude.
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Charles Henry Maxwell Knight (1900-1968)
Maxwell Knight had been Deputy Chief of Staff of the British Fascisti before being recruited by MI5 in 1931. He ran an undercover operation on Captain Ramsay, the Conservative MP for Peebles, a trail that led to Anna Wolkoff and her associates, including Tyler Kent. In April 1940, he mounted a sting operation on Anna Wolkoff in which she was persuaded ‘to attempt to communicate’ with William Joyce, a former British Fascist, who had become the leading spokesman for Nazi propaganda.
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Walter Krivitsky (1889-1941)
The Cover Name of Shmelka (or Samuel) Ginsburg, a Soviet Intelligence agent who defected to the West in 1937. He was invited to Britain in 1940 and revealed the extensive penetration of the British Establishment by Soviet Intelligence. |
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