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Lists of alleged MI6 officers published by the Cryptome website in 1999 and 2005. The lists are anonymous and unverified.

The Cryptome MI6 lists are four lists of people alleged to be officers of the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, better known as MI6). The website Cryptome, run by John Young, published them between May 1999 and October 2005:

  • 13 May 1999: 116 names.[1]
  • 21 August 2005: 74 names.[2]
  • 27 August 2005: 121 names.[3]
  • 13 October 2005: 49 entries, 29 of them new.[4]

On 28 August 2005 Cryptome combined the first three as "276 Unique Names of MI6 Officers".[5]

The lists have never been authenticated. The Foreign Office said in 1999 and again in 2005 that some of those named were not SIS staff. It is government policy neither to confirm nor deny such lists.[6][7]

A name's appearance on these lists is not evidence that the person worked for MI6. On Powerbase, a person is said to have served in SIS only where a separate, reliable source supports it, and that source is cited.

The 1999 list

The first list was published by Executive Intelligence Review (EIR), the magazine of the Lyndon LaRouche movement. It appeared in an article about the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, online around 10 May 1999 and in the issue dated 14 May. EIR said it had received the list as an anonymous e-mail, credited to "an honest man who had left MI6", and that it could not independently authenticate many of the details. The e-mail made allegations about Diana's death that have never been substantiated, and Powerbase does not repeat them.[1] EIR's editor Peter Sigerson later said the web version had been withdrawn on legal advice after a request from the British government, but that about 9,000 printed copies had already been sent out.[8]

The list was reposted on Usenet on 11 May 1999.[9] Cryptome published it on 13 May with the warning: "No authentication; may be genuine, a folly or a black op."[1] A D-Notice asking British media not to publish the names was issued on 12 May.[10]

Foreign Secretary Robin Cook blamed the former SIS officer Richard Tomlinson. Cook said that "not all the names" were connected with SIS, but that "the release of any such list, however inaccurate it may be, is a deeply irresponsible and dangerous act".[6] Tomlinson denied any involvement. He said he had posted only his own affidavit, which named nine officers, and described the list as not "particularly accurate".[11][12] Mohamed Al-Fayed also denied involvement.[13] Guardian Weekly reported that some of those named were Foreign Office diplomats with no connection to MI6.[14]

The 2005 lists

On 21 August 2005 Cryptome posted a second list of 74 names. The list was credited only to "A.", with a link to a Usenet discussion.[2] The Guardian reported that 18 of the people named had held the rank of ambassador, and that Croatian newspapers had earlier named alleged officers working in the Balkans.[15] A third list of 121 names, credited to "A2", followed on 27 August.[3]

Cryptome marked with an asterisk those names it had found in the Foreign Office's own HM Diplomatic Service Overseas Reference List (August 2005). The asterisk shows only that the person was a serving diplomat.[5] The Foreign Office called the publication "extremely irresponsible" and said: "Quite a few people on that list are Foreign Office staff and nothing else."[7] It said that it neither confirms nor denies such lists.[16]

A fourth list followed on 13 October 2005, again credited to "A.". It had sections headed "Eastern Adriatic Countries" and "MI6 Officers – Her Majesty's Ambassadors", and 29 of its 49 entries were new.[4] No reliable source has identified who compiled the 2005 lists.

The 2005 lists came after reports in the Balkan press. In 2004 the Sunday Times reported that Anthony Monckton had been exposed in Serbia,[17] and the Zagreb weekly Nacional named several alleged officers.[18]

Later notes on the Cryptome page

Cryptome later added two corrections to the combined page:

  • 23 January 2006: a correspondent said that "Paul Cronton" should read "Paul Crompton".
  • 22 February 2006: a correspondent said that "Mark Williams" and Kenneth Mark Williams were the same person. Cryptome merged the two, reducing its count to 275.[5]

The 2006 Russian television allegations

In January 2006 Cryptome also posted an item about a Russian state television programme. In the programme, people presented as officers of the Federal Security Service (FSB) accused staff of the British embassy in Moscow of espionage, including the use of a transmitter hidden in an imitation rock. The programme named four British embassy staff: Marc Doe, Christopher Pirt, Paul Crompton and Andrew Fleming (given in one Russian report as "Andre Fleming"). It also accused Doe of authorising payments to Russian non-governmental organisations. None of the four appears on any of the Cryptome lists.[5][19] The Foreign Office said that it was "concerned and surprised", and it rejected "any allegation of improper conduct in our dealing with Russian NGOs".[19] In 2012 Jonathan Powell, formerly Tony Blair's chief of staff, said that the "spy rock" had been real. He did not comment on the four people named.[20]

Reliability

The lists mix people whose SIS careers are now on the public record with others. Those on record include four Chiefs of SIS: David Spedding, Richard Dearlove, John Scarlett and Alex Younger, plus Richard Moore, who later became Chief. Others are career diplomats with no reported link to SIS. Some entries give no details, or garble or truncate names. One 1999 entry carries an abusive comment, which Powerbase does not reproduce.

A count of the four lists finds 302 different people:

  • The first three lists contain 311 entries. Cryptome counted 35 duplicates among them, but there are 37: Michael Roger Fox and Andrew Jeremy Stafford each appear on two lists without being counted.
  • That leaves 274 unique names, or 273 after the Mark Williams merge.
  • The fourth list adds 29 new names, making 302.

People named on the lists

Inclusion in this table means only that the person's name appears on one or more of the Cryptome lists. Where the third column is blank, or gives only a public diplomatic or civil-service career, Powerbase does not state or imply that the person worked for MI6. Where the column reports SIS service, the claim is attributed to the source cited. The "List(s)" column gives the date of each list on which the name appears. Dates of birth and postings given in the lists are not reproduced here.

Name as listed List(s) Public record (where sourced)
Madeleine Kay Alessandri 21 Aug 2005 Senior civil servant; Chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee.[21]
Dudley Charles Ankerson May 1999 Former diplomat (Argentina, Mexico, Spain); political consultant.[22]
Ian Nicholas Anthony 27 Aug 2005
Peter James Aron 27 Aug 2005
Jeremy John Durham Ashdown 27 Aug 2005; Oct 2005 Former Liberal Democrat leader. The BBC's obituary says that he joined the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) and worked under diplomatic cover in Geneva.[23]
David William Ashley Oct 2005 Diplomat; ambassador to Madagascar and South Sudan.[24]
Raymond Benedict Barthol Asquith May 1999 3rd Earl of Oxford and Asquith. In a 2025 interview with the Daily Telegraph he described his own career as SIS head of station in Moscow, including the 1985 exfiltration of Oleg Gordievsky.[25]
Nigel Anthony Richard Backhouse 27 Aug 2005
Kerry Charles Bagshaw May 1999 Royal Marine. His obituaries describe him as a former MI6 head of station in Moscow. Died 2015.[26][27]
Ian Walter Baharie 21 Aug 2005
Anthony James Ball 21 Aug 2005
Ian Clive Barnard May 1999
Nicholas John Barnes Oct 2005 Powerbase has a page on a Nick Barnes; it has not been established that he is the person named on the list.
Robert William Barnett Oct 2005
Richard Martin Donne Barrett May 1999 Former Director of Global Counter-Terrorism at SIS, according to his own institutional biography.[28]
Nicholas Hilary Bates 27 Aug 2005
James Lloyd Baxendale May 1999; 21 Aug 2005
Jonathan Beales May 1999
Nicholas James Gilbert Beer 27 Aug 2005
Brian Maurice Bennett 27 Aug 2005
Julliette Winsome Bird 27 Aug 2005
Peter John William Black May 1999; Oct 2005
William Hume James Blanchard 21 Aug 2005
Jamie Blount May 1999
David Graeme Blunt 27 Aug 2005
Rupert Bowen May 1999 Described by the Independent in 1998, in connection with the Sandline affair, as 'a former MI6 officer'.[29]
Andrew Jonathan Corrie Boyd May 1999
Timothy Gavin Bradley 27 Aug 2005; Oct 2005
Julian Nicholas Braithwaite 27 Aug 2005; Oct 2005 Diplomat; ambassador to the WTO and UN in Geneva.[30]
Andrew James Brear May 1999
Alastair Breeze May 1999
Christopher Mark Breeze May 1999
Jonathan Andrew Brewer 27 Aug 2005
Richard Philip Bridge May 1999; 27 Aug 2005
Robert Edward Brinkley 27 Aug 2005
Stephen John Allan Brooking Oct 2005
Stuart Armitage Brooks May 1999
Paul Brummel 21 Aug 2005 Diplomat; ambassador and high commissioner in several posts.[31]
Christopher Parker Burrows May 1999 Co-founder with Christopher Steele of Orbis Business Intelligence. The intelligence historian Tom Griffin describes him as a former MI6 officer.[32][33]
George Benedict Joseph Pascal Busby May 1999; 27 Aug 2005; Oct 2005 In 2004 the Zagreb weekly Nacional named him as a former head of the MI6 station in Vienna and one of the service's six most senior officers. These claims have not been confirmed.[18]
Robert Pius Campbell Oct 2005
Philippa Jane Carnall 21 Aug 2005
Peter Leslie Carter 21 Aug 2005
David Ian Chambers 21 Aug 2005
Geoff Chittenden May 1999
Robert John Paul Church May 1999
Edward Clay 21 Aug 2005
Timothy Clayden May 1999
Martin Hugh Clements May 1999; 21 Aug 2005
John Donovan Nelson Clibborn May 1999 His Daily Telegraph obituary describes him as MI6 head of station in Washington. Died 2017.[34]
Ian Cameron Cliff Oct 2005 Diplomat; ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sudan and Kosovo.[35]
Timothy David Clifton Oct 2005
Peter Salmon Collecott May 1999; 27 Aug 2005
Geoffrey Thomas Grey Collier Oct 2005
Nicholas Geoffrey Coombs 27 Aug 2005
Andrew George Tyndale Cooper 27 Aug 2005
John de Carteret Copleston 27 Aug 2005 In 2017 the Evening Standard described him as a 'purported ex-MI6' adviser to Shell during the OPL 245 affair.[36]
Andrew David Cordery May 1999
Vernon Robert Court 21 Aug 2005
Anthony Evelyn Comrie Cowan 27 Aug 2005
Sherard Louis Cowper-Coles May 1999; 21 Aug 2005 Diplomat; ambassador to Israel, Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan.[37]
Keith Craig May 1999 Powerbase has a page on a Keith Craig; it has not been established that he is the person named on the list.
Charles Graham Crawford 27 Aug 2005; Oct 2005
Michael James Crawford 27 Aug 2005
Alexander John Peter Creswell 21 Aug 2005
Anthony Campbell Crombie Oct 2005
James Anthony Dancer Oct 2005
John Martin Jamie Darke May 1999; 27 Aug 2005
Nigel Kim Darroch 27 Aug 2005 Diplomat; National Security Adviser and ambassador to the United States.[38]
Michael Hayward Davenport May 1999; 21 Aug 2005 Diplomat; ambassador to Kuwait.[39]
Elved Richard Malcolm Davies 27 Aug 2005
John Howard Davies 27 Aug 2005
Peter Brian Davies May 1999; 27 Aug 2005
John Paul Davison 27 Aug 2005
Andrew John Dean 21 Aug 2005
Geoffrey Deane 27 Aug 2005
Richard Billing Dearlove May 1999 Chief of SIS, 1999–2004.[40]
John Deerlove May 1999 Listed as 'John Deerlove', with no details; possibly a garbled form of another name on the list.
Hugh Stephen Murray Elliot 27 Aug 2005 Diplomat; ambassador to Spain.[41]
Julian Ascott Evans 27 Aug 2005
Stephen Nicholas Evans 21 Aug 2005
Stephen Shane Evans Oct 2005 Cryptome notes that he is a different person from Stephen Nicholas Evans.
Keith Derek Evetts May 1999
David William Fall 21 Aug 2005
Charles Blanford Farr 27 Aug 2005 His obituaries describe a career in MI6 before he went on to head the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism and chair the Joint Intelligence Committee. Died 2019.[42]
Thomas Daniel Fearn Oct 2005
Michael Edward Joseph Feliks May 1999
Robert Dominic Russell Fenn May 1999; 27 Aug 2005
John Fisher 27 Aug 2005
Nicholas Bernard Frank Fishwick May 1999 Former Director General at the Foreign Office. In 2013 Sky News described him as 'a former MI6 officer'.[43][44]
Robert Dunkan Fitchett 21 Aug 2005
Edmund Walter Fitton-Brown 21 Aug 2005 Diplomat; ambassador to Yemen; co-ordinator of the UN ISIL/Al-Qaida Monitoring Team.[45]
Richard George Hopper Fletcher May 1999
Tarquin Simon Archer Folliss 27 Aug 2005
Lachlan Pelly Ferrar Forbes 21 Aug 2005
Peter William Ford 21 Aug 2005
Nicholas John Foster 27 Aug 2005
Richard Andrew Foulsham May 1999
Rosalind Mary Elizabeth Fowler May 1999
Michael Roger Fox May 1999; 21 Aug 2005
Cortland Lucas Fransella 27 Aug 2005
Richard Ogilby Leslie Fraser-Darling May 1999
Steven Alan Frost 27 Aug 2005
Michael Adrian Fulcher 27 Aug 2005
Robert Andrew Fulton May 1999 Described by the Daily Telegraph in 2008 as a 'former MI6 spy' when he was appointed chairman of the Scottish Conservative Party.[46]
Stephen Peter Garner-Winship 27 Aug 2005
Kevin Andrew Garvey May 1999; 27 Aug 2005
Ruppert John Addison Gaskin 21 Aug 2005
John Henry Cary Gerson May 1999 Described by The Guardian in 2000 as a retired MI6 officer.[47]
Andrew Patrick Somerset Gibbs May 1999; 21 Aug 2005
Roger James Adam Golland 27 Aug 2005 Retired diplomat (32 years in HM Diplomatic Service); trustee of Release.[48]
Anita Goodman May 1999 Listed with no details. No further information is given, and no profile is planned.
Jacqueline Goodman May 1999 Listed with no details. No further information is given, and no profile is planned.
Sean Goodman May 1999 Listed with no details. No further information is given, and no profile is planned.
Jean Francois Gordon 21 Aug 2005
Robert Anthony Eagleson Gordon 21 Aug 2005
Keith Rutherford Gosling May 1999
Matthew Steven Gould 21 Aug 2005 Diplomat; ambassador to Israel.[49]
Keith William Green 21 Aug 2005; Oct 2005
Noel Joseph Guckian 21 Aug 2005 Diplomat; ambassador to Oman.[50]
Irena Guzelova Oct 2005
Paul Haggle 27 Aug 2005
James William David Hall 27 Aug 2005
Roger Patrick Hamilton May 1999
Graham Stewart Hand 21 Aug 2005; Oct 2005
Roger John Hargreaves May 1999
William Alistair Harrison 27 Aug 2005 Diplomat; Governor of Anguilla.[51]
Julian John Robert Clive Harston Oct 2005 Former diplomat; head of the UN mission in Western Sahara (MINURSO).[52]
Samuel Andrew Roland Hatfield May 1999
Dora Claire Sarah Healy 27 Aug 2005
Steven John Hill May 1999; 27 Aug 2005
Martin Holifield Oct 2005
Stephen Peter Holland 21 Aug 2005
Sean Christopher Erick Holt 21 Aug 2005
Bryan Hopkinson Oct 2005
Katherine Sarah-Julia Horner May 1999
Thomas Robert Benedict Hurd May 1999; 21 Aug 2005 Senior civil servant; Director General of the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism.[53]
Justin John Hustwitt 21 Aug 2005
Nigel Norman Inkster 27 Aug 2005 Former Assistant Chief of SIS. His institutional biography says that he served in SIS for 31 years.[54]
Anthony John Godwin Insall 27 Aug 2005
Andrew Michael Jackson 27 Aug 2005
William Lester Jackson-Houlston 27 Aug 2005; Oct 2005
Neil Marius Jacobsen 27 Aug 2005
Nicholas Robert Jarrold Oct 2005
John Jenkins 21 Aug 2005 Diplomat; ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria and Burma.[55]
Richard Hugh Francis Jones 27 Aug 2005; Oct 2005
Denis Edward Peter Paul Keefe 27 Aug 2005 Diplomat; ambassador to Serbia and Georgia.[56]
Robert Mitchell Forest Kelly May 1999
Paul Vincent Kennedy 21 Aug 2005
Theodore Maurice Kenwrick-Pierc May 1999 Name appears truncated in the list.
Alex Kershaw May 1999 Not to be confused with the author Alex Kershaw.
David James Kilby 21 Aug 2005
Sarah-Jill Lennard Kilroy 27 Aug 2005
Kate Knight-Sands Oct 2005 Diplomat; ambassador to Montenegro.[57]
Richard Jonathan Knowlton 27 Aug 2005
Michael Anthony Kyle 27 Aug 2005
Ian Francis Millar Lancaster 27 Aug 2005
David Maurice Landsman Oct 2005
Nicholas John Andrew Langman May 1999 Named in December 2005 by the Greek weekly Proto Thema as the MI6 head of station in Athens. The paper linked him to allegations that 28 Pakistani men were abducted and mistreated in Greece after the 7 July 2005 London bombings. The Greek and British governments denied British involvement. British officials later said that MI6 officers had been present only as observers.[58][59]
Edmund John Scott Latter May 1999
Jeremy John Legge May 1999; 27 Aug 2005
Graham John Ley 27 Aug 2005
Barry Robert Lowen 21 Aug 2005 Diplomat; ambassador to Mali and Algeria.[60]
Gareth Geoffrey Lungley May 1999; 27 Aug 2005; Oct 2005
Julian Edmund Lyon Oct 2005
Fiona MacCallum 27 Aug 2005
Kenneth John Alexander MacKenzie 27 Aug 2005
John Bannerman Macpherson 27 Aug 2005
Christine Anne MacQueen May 1999; 27 Aug 2005
Norman James MacSween May 1999
Richard Edward Makepeace 21 Aug 2005
Keith Ian Malin 27 Aug 2005
Nicholas Marden 27 Aug 2005
Rosalind Mary Marsden 21 Aug 2005 Diplomat; ambassador to Afghanistan and Sudan; EU Special Representative for Sudan.[61]
Nicholas Jonathan Leigh Martin 27 Aug 2005
Iain Arthur Gray Matthewson May 1999
Andrew David McCoch 21 Aug 2005
Geraldine Mary McCooey Oct 2005
Ian Forbes McCredie May 1999 Described in Ben Macintyre's 2026 book on the KGB defector Vladimir Kuzichkin as the SIS officer in Tehran who handled him; this account is cited here via a review in The Spectator.[62]
Patrick Joseph McGuinness May 1999; 27 Aug 2005 Former Deputy National Security Adviser.[63]
Sian Alexis McLean 21 Aug 2005
Alasdair Morrell McNeill 27 Aug 2005
Peter James McQuibban 27 Aug 2005
William John Clovis Meath-Baker May 1999
Jonathan Kenneth Milton Mitchel 27 Aug 2005 Surname appears truncated in the list.
Andrew Jonathan Mitchell May 1999 Diplomat; ambassador to Germany.[64]
John Edward Mitchiner 21 Aug 2005
Anthony Leopold Colyer Monckton May 1999; 27 Aug 2005; Oct 2005 Named by the Sunday Times in 2004 as a senior MI6 officer whose identity had been exposed in Serbia.[17]
Richard John Moon 27 Aug 2005
Richard Peter Moore May 1999; 21 Aug 2005 Chief of SIS, 2020–2025.[65]
Mark Scott Thomas Morgan May 1999; 27 Aug 2005
Stuart Richard Morley May 1999; 21 Aug 2005
Hugh Roger Mortimer 27 Aug 2005; Oct 2005
Colin Andrew Munro 27 Aug 2005; Oct 2005
Andrew Alasdair Neil 21 Aug 2005
Philip Raymond Nelson 27 Aug 2005
Clive Dare Newell May 1999; 27 Aug 2005
Stephen Martin Noakes 27 Aug 2005
Richard Adam Noble 21 Aug 2005
Peter James Norris May 1999; 27 Aug 2005
John Matthew O'Callaghan 27 Aug 2005; Oct 2005
Paul Vincent O'Connor 27 Aug 2005
Stephen John O'Flaherty 27 Aug 2005
Peter David Orwin May 1999
Richard Lloyd Owen 27 Aug 2005
Simon Graham Page 27 Aug 2005
Christopher Robert Geoffrey Pagett May 1999
Charles William Parton 27 Aug 2005
Colin Douglas Partridge May 1999; 21 Aug 2005
Hugh William Grant Patterson 27 Aug 2005
Martin Eric Penton-Voak May 1999; 27 Aug 2005
Geoffrey Colin Perry May 1999
Alan Petty May 1999 Writes as the novelist Alan Judd. The Guardian described him in 2003 as 'a senior MI6 officer'.[66]
Quentin James Kitson Phillips 21 Aug 2005
Tom Richard Vaughan Phillips 27 Aug 2005 Diplomat; ambassador to Israel and Saudi Arabia.[67]
Richard William Potter May 1999; 21 Aug 2005; Oct 2005
David Herbert Powell 27 Aug 2005
Mark Precious May 1999
Christopher Norman Russell Prentice 21 Aug 2005 Diplomat; ambassador to Italy, Iraq and Jordan.[68]
Timothy Ian Priest 27 Aug 2005
John Andrew Raine May 1999 Former Foreign Office official; chair of the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission.[69]
Michael Charles Ramscar May 1999
John Charles Josslyn Ramsden 27 Aug 2005; Oct 2005
Timothy Simeon Rawlinson May 1999
Charles Michael Campbell Reeve Oct 2005
Richard Robert Reeve May 1999
Michael John Regan May 1999; 21 Aug 2005
Peter Marius Julian Prows Reilly May 1999
Clare Louise Rickitt 27 Aug 2005
John Ridd May 1999
Paul John Ritchie 27 Aug 2005
Colin Roberts 27 Aug 2005 Diplomat; Governor of the Falkland Islands.[70]
David George Roberts 27 Aug 2005
Michael John Wyn Roberts 21 Aug 2005
Philip John Barclay Roberts 27 Aug 2005
Elizabeth Carol Robson 27 Aug 2005
Janet Elizabeth Rogan May 1999; Oct 2005 Diplomat; COP26 regional ambassador.[71]
Mark Alastair Runacres 21 Aug 2005
Matthew John Rycroft Oct 2005 Senior civil servant; UK Permanent Representative to the UN; Permanent Secretary at the Home Office.[72]
Michael John Sanderson 27 Aug 2005
William Geoffrey Sandover 21 Aug 2005
John Donald William Saville 27 Aug 2005 Diplomat; ambassador to Venezuela.[73]
John McLeod Scarlett May 1999 Chief of SIS, 2004–2009.[74]
Michael William Seaman 27 Aug 2005
Richard Charles Leslie Seddon 21 Aug 2005
James Lyall Sharp 21 Aug 2005 Diplomat; ambassador to Azerbaijan.[75]
Philip Nicholas Shott 21 Aug 2005
Paul Raymond Sizeland 27 Aug 2005
Caroline Frances Slaymaker (née Grigg) Oct 2005 Listed as Slaymaker (née Grigg).
Justin James McKenzie Smit May 1999 Name appears truncated in the list.
Alistair Martin Sommerlad Oct 2005
Deborah Jane Soothill May 1999
Thomas Andrew Oliver Southern Oct 2005 Powerbase has a page on a Tom Southern; it has not been established that he is the person named on the list.
Andrew James Sparkes 21 Aug 2005 Diplomat; ambassador to Nepal.[76]
Richard David Spearman May 1999
David Spedding May 1999 Chief of SIS, 1994–1999. Died 2001.[77]
Guy David St. John Kelso Spindler May 1999 Former diplomat (head of the Foreign Office Africa Directorate); later with the Institute for Statecraft.[78]
Patrick William Sprunt 27 Aug 2005
Andrew Jeremy Stafford May 1999; 27 Aug 2005
Christopher David Steele May 1999 Former SIS officer; author of the 2016 Steele dossier on Donald Trump.[79]
Adrian Stones 21 Aug 2005
Christopher Rowland Charlesworth Sykes 21 Aug 2005
Mark Robert Syrett 21 Aug 2005
Nicholas Simon Syrett 21 Aug 2005
Arthur David Tandy 27 Aug 2005
Anthony James Nicholas Tansley 27 Aug 2005
Geoffrey Tantum May 1999 His obituaries describe him as MI6's Middle East controller. Died 2024.[80][81]
Duncan John Rushworth Taylor 27 Aug 2005 Diplomat; ambassador to Mexico.[82]
Anthony Jonathan Terry May 1999
Harcourt Andrew Pretorius Tesoriere 21 Aug 2005; Oct 2005
Richard Paul Reynier Thompson May 1999; 21 Aug 2005 Chief Constable of the Civil Nuclear Constabulary from 2007. The Times reported that he had been a senior MI6 officer.[83][84]
Michael Thomson May 1999
Daniel Vernon Thornton May 1999
Damian Roderic Todd 27 Aug 2005 Diplomat; ambassador to Poland; Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands.[85]
Patrick Gilmer Topping 21 Aug 2005
Owen John Traylor 27 Aug 2005
James Philip Tucker 21 Aug 2005
Nicholas Piers Turnbull Oct 2005
Stuart Graham Turvill May 1999; 27 Aug 2005
John Venning May 1999
Richard Vlaistow May 1999
Eric Simon Charles Wall 27 Aug 2005
Michael John Ward 27 Aug 2005
James Spencer Kennedy Watson May 1999
Robert Emmerson Watson 21 Aug 2005
James Wilfrid Watt 21 Aug 2005 Diplomat; ambassador to Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt.[86]
Jonathan Michael Weldin 27 Aug 2005
Andrew Ronald Whitecross 27 Aug 2005
Laurence Jeremy Whitehead Oct 2005
Andrew John Whiteside May 1999; 27 Aug 2005
Bernard Gerrard Whiteside 27 Aug 2005
Timothy Andrew Willasey-Wilsey 27 Aug 2005 Former Foreign Office official; writer on intelligence history.[87]
Kenneth Mark Williams May 1999 Cryptome merged a separate 'Mark Williams' entry into this one on 22 February 2006.
Simon John Williams 21 Aug 2005
Elizabeth Claire Wilson 21 Aug 2005
Simon Jules Wilson May 1999; 27 Aug 2005; Oct 2005
Julian Paul Geoffrey Wiseman May 1999
Peter Gilruth Wood 21 Aug 2005
David John Woods May 1999; 27 Aug 2005
Ian Alexander Woods May 1999; 27 Aug 2005
Daniel John Workman Oct 2005
Alexander William Younger May 1999; 21 Aug 2005 Chief of SIS, 2014–2020.[88]


See also

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Cryptome, List of MI6 Officers, 13 May 1999. The page reproduces the e-mail as published by Executive Intelligence Review, so the EIR text is cited indirectly, via Cryptome.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Cryptome, MI6 Officers List 2, 21 August 2005.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Cryptome, MI6 Officers List 3, 27 August 2005.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Cryptome, MI6 Officers List 4, 13 October 2005.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Cryptome, 276 Unique Names of MI6 Officers, 28 August 2005, updated 22 February 2006.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Richard Norton-Taylor and David Pallister, MI6 internet purge doomed to failure, The Guardian, 14 May 1999.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Exclusive: Web of spies, Daily Mirror, 30 August 2005.
  8. ↑ How secrets slip through the Net, BBC News, May 1999.
  9. ↑ Duncan Campbell, Cyber sillies, The Guardian, 20 May 1999.
  10. ↑ British government moves to suppress names of MI6 agents on Internet, World Socialist Web Site, 18 May 1999.
  11. ↑ Former spy denies MI6 leak, BBC News, 18 May 1999.
  12. ↑ Richard Tomlinson e-mail interview, BBC News, May 1999.
  13. ↑ Al Fayed denies MI6 list leak, BBC News, May 1999.
  14. ↑ MI6 agents named on Internet, Guardian Weekly, 19 May 1999.
  15. ↑ Richard Norton-Taylor, US website names MI6 officers, The Guardian, 22 August 2005.
  16. ↑ Bruce Schneier, 276 British Spies Named, Schneier on Security, August 2005, quoting Silicon.com (cited indirectly).
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Sunday Times, "Vengeful Serbs betray top MI6 man", 15 August 2004, as reproduced by Cryptome, MI6 Anthony Monckton (cited indirectly).
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Otkriveni britanski agenti: MI6 smjenjuje špijune s Balkana, Nacional (Zagreb), 2004 (in Croatian).
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 UK diplomats in Moscow spying row, BBC News, 23 January 2006.
  20. ↑ Britain admits 'fake rock' plot to spy on Russians, The Guardian, 19 January 2012.
  21. ↑ Madeleine Alessandri, GOV.UK, accessed 10 November 2026.
  22. ↑ Author biography, First Forum report, 2021.
  23. ↑ Paddy Ashdown obituary, BBC News.
  24. ↑ David Ashley, GOV.UK, accessed 10 November 2026.
  25. ↑ 'My daughters accept that only my son will inherit my 2,000 acre estate', Daily Telegraph, 2025.
  26. ↑ Kerry Bagshaw, marine – obituary, Daily Telegraph, 2016.
  27. ↑ Kerry Bagshaw, The Times, obituary.
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  29. ↑ MI6 'backed Africa coup', The Independent, October 1998.
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  31. ↑ Paul Brummell, GOV.UK, accessed 10 November 2026.
  32. ↑ Donald Trump dossier: intelligence sources vouch for author's credibility, The Guardian, 12 January 2017.
  33. ↑ Tom Griffin, Christopher Burrows, Tom Griffin on intelligence history, 12 July 2024.
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  36. ↑ Evening Standard, 28 February 2017, via PressReader.
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  43. ↑ Nick Fishwick, GOV.UK.
  44. ↑ Mark Kleinman, Exclusive: Ex-HMRC Head Joins HSBC Crime Fight, Sky News, 30 January 2013 (archived).
  45. ↑ Edmund Fitton-Brown, GOV.UK, accessed 10 November 2026.
  46. ↑ Former MI6 spy to head Scottish Tory Party, Daily Telegraph, 2008.
  47. ↑ Richard Norton-Taylor, [1], The Guardian, 8 May 2000.
  48. ↑ Roger Golland, Release, accessed 10 November 2026.
  49. ↑ Matthew Gould, GOV.UK, accessed 10 November 2026.
  50. ↑ GOV.UK announcement, accessed 10 November 2026.
  51. ↑ Alistair Harrison, GOV.UK, accessed 10 November 2026.
  52. ↑ UN News, February 2007.
  53. ↑ GOV.UK announcement, accessed 10 November 2026.
  54. ↑ Nigel Inkster, SOAS University of London, accessed 10 November 2026.
  55. ↑ John Jenkins, GOV.UK, accessed 10 November 2026.
  56. ↑ Denis Keefe, GOV.UK, accessed 10 November 2026.
  57. ↑ Kate Knight-Sands, GOV.UK, accessed 10 November 2026.
  58. ↑ Peter Beaumont and Helena Smith, British admit being at terror grilling, The Observer, 1 January 2006.
  59. ↑ Morning Star, 30 December 2005, as reproduced by Islamophobia Watch (cited indirectly).
  60. ↑ Barry Lowen, GOV.UK, accessed 10 November 2026.
  61. ↑ GOV.UK announcement, accessed 10 November 2026.
  62. ↑ Double jeopardy: the story of history's most audacious KGB defector, The Spectator, 2026.
  63. ↑ GOV.UK announcement, accessed 10 November 2026.
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  65. ↑ Richard Moore, GOV.UK.
  66. ↑ [2], The Guardian, 5 November 2003.
  67. ↑ GOV.UK announcement, accessed 10 November 2026.
  68. ↑ Christopher Prentice, GOV.UK, accessed 10 November 2026.
  69. ↑ GOV.UK announcement, accessed 10 November 2026.
  70. ↑ Colin Roberts, GOV.UK, accessed 10 November 2026.
  71. ↑ Janet Rogan, GOV.UK, accessed 10 November 2026.
  72. ↑ Matthew Rycroft, GOV.UK, accessed 10 November 2026.
  73. ↑ John Saville, GOV.UK, accessed 10 November 2026.
  74. ↑ Sir John Scarlett KCMG OBE, RUSI, accessed 10 November 2026.
  75. ↑ James Sharp, GOV.UK, accessed 10 November 2026.
  76. ↑ GOV.UK announcement, accessed 10 November 2026.
  77. ↑ Sir David Spedding, The Guardian, obituary, 14 June 2001.
  78. ↑ Our People, Earendel Associates, accessed 10 November 2026 (the subject's own company biography).
  79. ↑ Ex-MI6 officer Christopher Steele in hiding after Trump dossier, BBC News, 12 January 2017.
  80. ↑ Sir Geoffrey Tantum, MI6 Middle East controller – obituary, Daily Telegraph, 20 March 2024.
  81. ↑ Sir Geoffrey Tantum obituary: One of MI6's most able Arabists, The Times, 2024.
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