Talk:Wilfred Dunderdale

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The 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...

&mdash; Matt Crypto 18:39, 25 March 2006 (UTC)