Sir William George Eden Wiseman, 10th Baronet (1 February 1885 – 17 June 1962) was a British intelligence agent and banker. He was a general partner at American investment bank Kuhn, Loeb & Co. from 1929 till 1960.

Life

The grandson of Sir William Wiseman, 8th Baronet, a British naval officer, he was educated at Winchester College and Jesus College, Cambridge. He was appointed a second lieutenant in the Cardigan Royal Garrison Artillery (Militia) on 30 April 1902. As a businessman, before the outbreak of the

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he was chairman in London of Hendens Trust. From 1914, he served as a lieutenant colonel with the

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but, following injury, transferred to military intelligence. He was sent by

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director, Mansfield Smith-Cumming, to establish the agency's office in New York, 'Section V'. As the head of the British intelligence mission in the United States, Wiseman was extensively involved in the counter-intelligence against the Indian seditionists and was ultimately responsible for leaking to New York Police, bypassing diplomatic channels, the details of a bomb plot that led to the uncovering of the Hindu Conspiracy. Wiseman acted as a liaison between

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and the British government. He and his associate General Julius Klein were closely associated with Special Advisor to Wilson Colonel Edward M. House. He met with Wilson on a regular basis and on one notable occasion in August 1918 spent a week's vacation with the President and House. Wiseman was also a mentor to spy chief William Stephenson. He was made a Companion of the

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, In recognition of services in connection with the War, in the King's 1918 Birthday Honours. After the war, Wiseman was a participant in the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. He remained in the U.S. as an employee of Kuhn Loeb, becoming a partner in 1929.

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*Sir William Wiseman papers (MS 666). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library

* doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/67496, Sir William George Eden Wiseman, 10th Bt. entry in the ''

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