Talk:Wilfred Dunderdale
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Confusing Intro Anecdote
edit"During the Russian Civil War he was an interpreter with White Russian naval commanders in the Black Sea, once having to sit discreetly outside for a White Russian general "chatting up" the general's mistress until he was no longer required! (neither spoke the other's language)"
I do not understand this anecdote or how it pertains to a summary of the individual — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.121.224.74 (talk) 21:46, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
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editThe following is an extract from Matthew M. Aid, "'Stella Polaris' and the Secret Code Battle in Postwar Europe", Intelligence and National Security 17(3), Autumn 2002, pp 17-86:
- Wilfred Albert 'Biffy' Dunderdale was born in Odessa, Russia on 24 December 1899. His father, Richard Albert Dunderdale, was the Russianrepresentative of the British manufacturing concern Vickers Armstrong which made, among other things, the famous Vickers machine-gun. Butthe Russian Revolution of 1917 forced the Dunderdale family to flee Russia. Dunderdale spent virtually his entire adult life in intelligence. He joined the British Navy in 1914, raining as a naval architect while World War I raged in Europe. He served with distinction in the British Mediterranean Fleet from 1918 to 1922, most of which time he spent with British Naval Intelligence. In 1922, he joined MI6 and was appointed chief of station in Constantinople, serving there until 926. Because he spoke excellent French, in 1926 Dunderdale was named the MI6 chief of station in Paris. He...