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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 52. Chapters: Graham Greene, Kim Philby, Conrad O'Brien-ffrench, Sidney Reilly, John le Carre, Malcolm Muggeridge, Lionel Crabb, Richard Tomlinson, George Blake, John Cairncross, Hugh Pollard, Alexander Wilson, Frank Bossard, Daphne Park, Baroness Park of Monmouth, Peter Lunn, George Kennedy Young, Claude Dansey, Valentine Vivian, Richard Brooman-White, Cecil Bebb, James Langley, Sigismund Payne Best, John Horace Ragnar Colvin, John Nicholas Rede Elliott, Jeremy Wolfenden, Myles Ponsonby, Meta Ramsay, Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale, Greville Wynne, John Bingham, 7th Baron Clanmorris, Paul Dukes, Nicholas Langman, Francis Storrs, Alastair Crooke, Harold Elletson, Richard Henry Stevens, Desmond Morton, Wilfred Dunderdale, Janet Chisholm, Milicent Bagot. Excerpt: Conrad Fulke Thomond O'Brien-ffrench (November 19, 1893 - October 23, 1986), was a distinguished British Secret Intelligence Officer, Captain in the Tipperary Rangers of the Royal Irish Regiment and 16th The Queen's Lancers in World War I, and Mountie for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He was also an accomplished artist, linguist, mountaineer, skier and author. Upper Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati.Born in London, England, Conrad Fulke Thomond O'Brien-ffrench was the second son of Henry Albert De Vreque O'Brien-ffrench (Marquis de Castelthomond) and his wife Winifred Thursby, heiress and daughter of Major James Legh Thursby, of Ormerod House Lancashire. He and his older brother Rollo (Rollo Adrien Vladimir Thursby Marie Altieri O'Brien-ffrench) spent their early childhood in Italy at Villa Torlonia (Frascati) in the Albany Hills, east of Rome, and then at Piazza dell'Indipendenza in Florence, where they received private tutoring in English, French and Italian. Returning to England, Conrad joined Rollo at the Wick, a preparatory school in the Hove district of...