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Major General Major general (abbreviated MG, maj. gen. and similar) is a military rank used in many countries. It is derived from the older rank of sergeant major general. The disappearance of the "sergeant" in the title explains the apparent confusion of a ...
Sir Stewart Graham Menzies, (; 30 January 1890 – 29 May 1968) was Chief of
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, the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), from 1939 to 1952, during and after the
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.


Early life, family

Stewart Graham Menzies was born in England in 1890 into a wealthy family as the second son of John Graham Menzies and Susannah West Wilson, daughter of ship-owner Arthur Wilson of
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. His grandfather, Graham Menzies, was a
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who helped establish a
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and made huge profits. His parents became friends of
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. Menzies was a nephew of
Robert Stewart Menzies Robert Stewart Menzies (1856 – 25 January 1889) was a Scottish Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1889. Menzies was the son of Graham Menzies (died 1880), an Edinburgh distiller of Hallyburton, Cupar Angus, ...
. But Menzies' father was dissolute, never established a worthwhile career, and wasted his share of the family fortune; he died of
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in 1911 in his early 50s, leaving only a minimal estate. Menzies was educated at
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, becoming president of the student society Pop, and left in 1909. He excelled in sports, hunting and cross-country running. He won prizes for his studies of languages, and was considered an all-around excellent student.


Early military career


Life Guards

From Eton he joined the
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as a
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. After a year with this regiment, he transferred to the Second Life Guards. He was promoted to Lieutenant and appointed Adjutant by 1913.


First World War action

During the
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Menzies served in Belgium. He was wounded at Zandvoorde in October 1914, and fought gallantly in the
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in November 1914. Menzies was promoted to
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on 14 November, and received the DSO in person from
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on 2 December. Menzies' regiment was decimated during fighting in 1915, suffering very heavy casualties in the
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. Menzies was seriously injured in a
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in 1915, and was honourably discharged from active combat service.


Intelligence service

He then joined the
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section of Field Marshal
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, the British commander. In late 1917, he reported to high British leadership that Haig's intelligence chief Brigadier
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was fudging intelligence estimates, which soon led to Charteris' removal. This
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was apparently done very discreetly. Menzies was promoted to brevet major before the end of the war.


MI6

Following the end of the war, Menzies entered MI6 (also known as SIS). He was a member of the British delegation to the 1919
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. Soon after the war, Menzies was promoted to
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of the Imperial General Staff, General Staff Officer, first grade. Within MI6, he became assistant director for special intelligence. Admiral
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became director-general of MI6 in 1924, and he made Menzies his deputy by 1929, with Menzies being promoted to full
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soon afterwards. In 1924, Menzies was allegedly involved—alongside
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and Desmond Morton—in the forging of '' The Zinoviev Letter''.Page 121, Michael Kettle, ''Sidney Reilly: The True Story of the World's Greatest Spy'', 1986, St. Martin's Press, . This forgery is considered to have been instrumental in the
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's victory in the United Kingdom general election of 1924, which ended the country's first
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government.''Telegraph'', 5 February 1999.


Chief of MI6

In 1939, when Admiral Sinclair died, Menzies was appointed Chief of
Secret Intelligence Service The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6 ( Military Intelligence, Section 6), is the foreign intelligence service of the United Kingdom, tasked mainly with the covert overseas collection and analysis of human intelligenc ...
(the SIS). He expanded wartime intelligence and counterintelligence departments and supervised
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efforts at
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.


Second World War

When the
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began, SIS expanded greatly. Menzies insisted on wartime control of codebreaking, and this gave him immense power and influence, which he used judiciously. By distributing the
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material collected by the
Government Code & Cypher School Government Communications Headquarters, commonly known as GCHQ, is an intelligence and security organisation responsible for providing signals intelligence (SIGINT) and information assurance (IA) to the government and armed forces of the Uni ...
, MI6 became an important branch of the government for the first time. Extensive breaches of
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gave Menzies and his team enormous insight into
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's strategy, and this was kept a closely-held secret, not only during the war, but until as late as 1974. (
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's 1974 book ''The Ultra Secret'' lifted the cloak of secrecy at last.) The Nazis had suspicions, but believed Enigma to be unbreakable, and never knew during the war that the Allies were reading a high proportion of their
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traffic. Menzies kept Prime Minister
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supplied daily with important Ultra decrypts, and the two worked together to ensure that financial resources were devoted toward research and upgrading technology at Bletchley Park, to keep pace with Nazi coding refinements, as well as directing talented workers to the massive effort, which employed nearly 10,000 workers by 1945. Bletchley's efforts were decisive in the battle against Nazi submarine warfare, which was severely threatening trans-Atlantic shipping, particularly in the first half of 1943. Britain, which was cut off from Europe after mid-1940, was almost completely dependent on North American supplies for survival. The access to Ultra was also vitally important in the battle for
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, leading up to D-Day in June 1944, and afterward. Menzies has been suspected as being involved with the assassination, on 24 December 1942, of
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, the
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military commander who defected to the allies in
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. British historian David Reynolds noted in his book, ''In Command of History'', that Menzies—who rarely left London during the war—was in
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around the period he was killed, making SOE (
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) involvement seem likely. Menzies, who was promoted to
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in January 1944, also supported efforts to contact anti-
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resistance, including
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, the anti-Hitler head of Abwehr, in Germany. Prime Minister
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was kept informed of these efforts throughout the war, and information from and about the Nazi resistance was exploited tactically. Menzies coordinated his operations with Special Operations Executive (SOE) (although he reputedly considered them "amateurs"), British Security Coordination (BSC), Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and the
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. He was awarded the
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.


After the Second World War

After the war, Menzies reorganised the SIS for the
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. He absorbed most of SOE. He was sometimes at odds with the
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governments. He also had to weather a scandal inside SIS after revelations that SIS officer
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was a Soviet spy. Nonetheless, Menzies deserved some of the blame for Soviet agents having penetrated MI6, according to
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in his book ''C: The Secret Life of Sir Stewart Graham Menzies, Spymaster to Winston Churchill''. Menzies was already the head of the service when Kim Philby joined in 1941. Cave Brown insists that Menzies's primary criteria were whether the applicants were upper-class former officers and recommended by another government department, or else were known to him personally. In his ''
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'' review of Brown's book, novelist
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makes this conclusion: "Mr Philby outwitted Menzies because Mr Philby was intelligent and professional and cool, where Menzies was an amiable upper-class sportsman who was out of his depth. And British intelligence, except for the code breakers, was like Menzies—amateur, anti-intellectual and wholly outclassed." After 43 continuous years of service in the British Army, Menzies retired to Bridges Court in
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in rural
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at 62 in mid-1952. Menzies was certainly adept at bureaucratic intrigue, a virtual necessity in his position, but his efforts as Chief had a major role in winning the Second World War, as evidenced by his nearly 1,500 meetings with Churchill during the war.


Marriages

His first marriage was in 1918 to Lady Avice Ela Muriel Sackville, younger daughter of Gilbert Sackville, 8th Earl De La Warr and Lady Muriel Agnes Brassey, daughter of
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. They were divorced in 1931.Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003. His second wife Pamela Thetis Garton (née Beckett) (d. 13 March 1951) was the fourth daughter of Rupert Evelyn Beckett by his wife Muriel Helen Florence Paget, daughter of Lord Berkeley Charles Sydney Paget, himself a younger son of the 2nd Marquess of Anglesey. Menzies and Garton married on 13 December 1932. Garton was an invalid for many years, suffering from clinical depression and
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. She had Menzies' only child, a daughter, Fiona, in 1934. His third marriage was in 1952 (as her fourth husband) to Audrey Clara Lilian Latham (b. 1899), formerly wife of Sir Henry Birkin, 2nd Bt., Lord Edward Hay, and Niall Chaplin, and daughter of Sir Thomas Paul Latham, 1st Bt. Stewart and Audrey were both over age 50 at the time of their marriage, each had separate estates (his in
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, west of London, hers in
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, east of London), and they for the most part lived separately, but they met in London for dinner each Wednesday.Cave Brown
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also reported that Menzies had a long-standing affair with one of his secretaries, which he ended upon retirement (and presumably remarriage) in 1952; the secretary apparently tried to kill herself at that time. Menzies died on 29 May 1968.


Fictional depictions

Stewart Menzies is a character in the 2014 film ''
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'' and is portrayed by
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. Stewart Menzies is also a character in the 2021 film ''
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'' and is portrayed by
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.


Honours and awards


Notes


References

*
Anthony Cave Brown Anthony Cave Brown (21 March 1929 – 14 July 2006) was a British journalist, espionage non-fiction writer, and historian. Early years Brown. was born in Bath, and moved to London as a boy, stuffing propaganda leaflets into bombs meant for Na ...
, ''Bodyguard of Lies'', 1975. *
Anthony Cave Brown Anthony Cave Brown (21 March 1929 – 14 July 2006) was a British journalist, espionage non-fiction writer, and historian. Early years Brown. was born in Bath, and moved to London as a boy, stuffing propaganda leaflets into bombs meant for Na ...
, ''"C": The Secret Servant: The Life of Sir Stewart Menzies, Spymaster to Winston Churchill'' (Macmillan Publishing Co., 1987) *
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, "The Oldest Boy of British Intelligence", ''
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'', 27 December 1987. Three page review of Brown's biography and Mahl's book. * * Thomas E. Mahl, ''Desperate Deception: British Covert Operations in the United States, 1939–44'', (Brassey's Inc., 1999) . * {{DEFAULTSORT:Menzies, Stewart 1890 births 1968 deaths British Army generals British Army personnel of World War I British Army personnel of World War II British Life Guards officers Cold War MI6 chiefs Cold War spies Companions of the Distinguished Service Order Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath People educated at Eton College Bletchley Park people Recipients of the Military Cross Recipients of the Order of the Yugoslav Crown Military personnel from London World War II spies for the United Kingdom Grenadier Guards officers