Charles Howard Ellis

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Charles Howard 'Dick' Ellis was an MI6 officer.[1]

Ellis was posted to Washington as deputy head of British Security Coordination under Sir William Stephenson in the period leading up to American entry into World War Two. He was credited by David Bruce with helping to set up the Secret Intelligence Branch of the Office of the Coordinator of Information.[2]

After the war, Ellis was appointed MI6 controller for North and South America.[3]

External resources

Notes

  1. Keith Jeffery, MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949, Bloomsbury, 2011, p.252.
  2. Stephen Dorril, MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Fourth Estate Limited, 2000, pp.50-51.
  3. Stephen Dorril, MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Fourth Estate Limited, 2000, p.54.