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The Quest for C: Mansfield Cuming and the Founding of the Secret Service. - Review - book review
Contemporary Review, August, 2000
Alan Judd. HarperCollins. [pounds]19.99. 501 pages. ISBN 0-00-255901-3. Fortunate is the biographer whose subject kept a secret diary; even more fortunate is the biographer whose subject's diary may only be seen by himself. This is the position in which Mr Judd found himself in his search for material relating to the little known man who founded Britain's secret intelligence service (M.I.
6) in 1909. Cuming was retired from the Royal Navy when he was asked to establish, single handed, a service to gather secrets about real and potential enemies. Cuming was an eccentric man, worthy to be the hero of an Edwardian novel and he left behind him a legacy of service and loyalty, very Edwardian, not to say, traditionally English, virtues. Cuming's work proved invaluable for the continued survival of Great Britain and at long last he has received the recognition he deserved in a most charmingly written and meticulously researched biography. (T. B.)
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