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The Ministry of The Avengers

1976
(pre-1960) 1960-1 1962-3 1963-4 1965-6 1967-8 1968 1969 (1970-5) 1976 1977 (post-1978)
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file photo Operative name (or cover) When active Status Disposition
John Steed 1961-9, 1974-7, 2001 (pseudonym: Invisible Jones) Active Field Agent
Lead field agent for the Ministry, records for the period 1962-9 and 1976-7 are complete, 1960-1 are partially recorded; other dates are no longer held in the central archive - please refer to the controlling bodies for these periods.
Mike Gambit 1976-7 Active Field Agent
Lead field agent for the Ministry, 1976-7; previously a sailor and engineer in the Maritime Navy. Expert at small arms and heavy arms, hand to hand fighting and counter-espionage.
Purdey 1976-7 Active Field Agent
Lead field agent for the Ministry, 1976-7; ex ballet dancer proficient in startling displays of unarmed combat, and an expert shotgun user, her codename derived from her favourite brand of shotgun.
George Stannard The Eagle's Nest Killed Field Agent
Field agent whose fondness for deep sea fishing let to him uncovering the Nazi survivalists of St. Dorca; killed while trying to escape the island.
Roland House of Cards Retired Field Agent
Field agent throughout the 1960s and controller in the early 1970s, instrumental in defeating Colonel Perov on a number of occasions. He breeds roses for a hobby.
Spence House of Cards Killed Training
Martial arts and sports instructor for Ministry agents, he was a sleeper infiltrated into Britian by enemy operative Colonel Perov and tried to kill agent Gambit, Mike when activated; killed by Gambit in self defence.
David Miller House of Cards Killed Field Agent
Field agent, he was a sleeper infiltrated into Britian by enemy operative Colonel Perov. He fought off his conditioning to warn agent Steed, John of the revival of the 'House of Cards'.
Professor Vasil House of Cards Retired Scientist
Research scientist who defected to the West in the early 1970s, survived a repatriation and assassination attempt due to the intervention of Ministry agents.
Teenager House of Cards Active Distraction
Hired to confuse the enemy agents who were trying to forcibly repatriate Professor Vasil.
Teenager House of Cards Active Distraction
Hired to confuse the enemy agents who were trying to forcibly repatriate Professor Vasil.
Teenager House of Cards Active Distraction
Hired to confuse the enemy agents who were trying to forcibly repatriate Professor Vasil.
Teenager House of Cards Active Distraction
Hired to confuse the enemy agents who were trying to forcibly repatriate Professor Vasil.
Teenager House of Cards Active Distraction
Hired to confuse the enemy agents who were trying to forcibly repatriate Professor Vasil.
Teenager House of Cards Active Distraction
Hired to confuse the enemy agents who were trying to forcibly repatriate Professor Vasil.
Teenager House of Cards Active Distraction
Hired to confuse the enemy agents who were trying to forcibly repatriate Professor Vasil.
Teenager House of Cards Active Distraction
Hired to confuse the enemy agents who were trying to forcibly repatriate Professor Vasil.
Teenager House of Cards Active Distraction
Hired to confuse the enemy agents who were trying to forcibly repatriate Professor Vasil.
Teenager House of Cards Active Distraction
Hired to confuse the enemy agents who were trying to forcibly repatriate Professor Vasil.
Teenager House of Cards Active Distraction
Hired to confuse the enemy agents who were trying to forcibly repatriate Professor Vasil.
Teenager House of Cards Active Distraction
Hired to confuse the enemy agents who were trying to forcibly repatriate Professor Vasil.
Teenager House of Cards Active Distraction
Hired to confuse the enemy agents who were trying to forcibly repatriate Professor Vasil.
Teenager House of Cards Active Distraction
Hired to confuse the enemy agents who were trying to forcibly repatriate Professor Vasil.
Teenager House of Cards Active Distraction
Hired to confuse the enemy agents who were trying to forcibly repatriate Professor Vasil.
Teenager House of Cards Active Distraction
Hired to confuse the enemy agents who were trying to forcibly repatriate Professor Vasil.
Teenager House of Cards Active Distraction
Hired to confuse the enemy agents who were trying to forcibly repatriate Professor Vasil.
Teenager House of Cards Active Distraction
Hired to confuse the enemy agents who were trying to forcibly repatriate Professor Vasil.
Felix Kane The Last of the Cybernauts...?? Retired Field Agent
Ministry agent who was horrifically burnt when trying to escape capture for treason - he had been selling government secrets and had killed agent Markham, Terry to keep his identity unknown. Saved from death, he sought revenge on the Ministry's top agents by reviving the cybernetic designs of Professor Armstrong.
Doctor Marlow The Last of the Cybernauts...?? Active Scientist
Scientisit in charge of the Electronic and Cybernetic Research Institute.
Professor Steven Mason The Last of the Cybernauts...?? Active Scientist
Cybernetics expert forced to design a cybersuit for double agent Kane, Felix.
Tom Fitzroy The Last of the Cybernauts...?? Retired HQ
Ministry liaison with the Home Office, he warned Ministry agents of the release and subsequent death of Frank Goff, he also discovered double agent Kane, Felix's fingerprints on a destroyed cybernaut.
2nd Guard The Last of the Cybernauts...?? Retired Security
Security guard for Professor Mason, retired from service after being attacked by a cybernaut.
Terry Markham The Last of the Cybernauts...?? Killed Field Agent
Field agent who uncovered double agent Kane, Felix, and was killed by him.
1st Guard The Last of the Cybernauts...?? Killed Security
Security guard for Professor Mason.
3rd Guard The Last of the Cybernauts...?? Retired Security
Cybernetic Research Institute guard.
4th Guard The Last of the Cybernauts...?? Retired Security
Cybernetic Research Institute guard.
Freddy The Midas Touch Retired/Killed Field Agent
Field agent retired from active duty due to a drinking problem, he contacted agent Steed, John whewn he stumbled across Professor Taylor's human weapon plot, but was killed when contaminated by the walking bomb, Midas.
Professor Turner The Midas Touch Retired/Killed Scientist
Fuelled by a mania for gold, Turner turned his government research to evil after retiring from his post, and devised a human bomb - a man contaminated with every disease known to man, and yet impervious to all of them. Killed when he came into contact with Midas during a struggle with Ministry agents preventing the assassination of a visiting princess.
General Garvin The Midas Touch Retired Military officer
Army general woh oversaw the security detail for visiting dignitaries in the mid 1970s.
Doctor The Midas Touch Active Medical
Ministry doctor in charge of the decontamination of a country house used to demonstrate the power of Midas.
Morgan The Midas Touch Active Signals
Radio operator reporting to agent Steed, John.
Rostock* The Midas Touch Killed Field Agent
Agents atationed on the Mongolia border who first learnt of the Midas plot; killed by Red Army soldiers.
Turner Cat Amongst the Pigeons Killed Field agent
Agent investigating the attacks on Merton and Rydercroft. He discovered the plot was being run by Zarcardi and was tortured by him; he escaped to warn Ministry agents but died from his wounds shortly afterwards.
Lewington Cat Amongst the Pigeons Retired Scientist
Forensics expert called in to establish the cause of the crash of Rydercroft's plane.
Merton Cat Amongst the Pigeons Retired Field Agent
Ministry agent attacked by Zarcardi's killer flock, he leapt off a cliff to escape, injuring himself terribly and lapsing into a coma; he later retired from service after recovering from the coma.
Freddy Bradshaw Target! Killed Training
Shooting range technician subverted by Draker - he fitted the range with curare-dart firing weapons and helped wipe out half a dozen top agents.
Jones Target! Retired Training
Assistant to Bradshaw.
George Myers Target! Killed Field Agent
Field agent killed by Draker's curare plot.
Dr J. Kendrick Target!, Three Handed Game Retired Medical
Ministry doctor in charge of medical checkups for field agents, he also tended to the civilians co-opted into the 'Three-handed Game' human cypher machine scheme proposed and run by agent Steed, John and Military Intelligence.
Talmadge Target! Killed Field Agent
Field agent killed by Draker's curare plot.
David Palmer Target! Killed Field Agent
Field agent killed by Draker's curare plot. He tracked Draker down but was killed by him before he could inform agent Steed, John who was behind the plot.
McKay* Target! Killed Field Agent
Field agent killed by Draker's curare plot.
Susie, the nurse* Target! Active Medical
Ministry nurse assigned to Dr Kendrick.
Potterton* Target! Killed Field Agent
Field agent killed by Draker's curare plot.
Titherbridge* Target! Active Archives
Bureaucrat in charge of ministry files.
Irwin Gunner To Catch a Rat Retired Field Agent
Field agent assigned to East Germany. He went missing in 1961, presumed killed, but turned up 16 years later to take revenge on the double agent "The White Rat".
Cromwell To Catch a Rat Killed Field Agent/HQ staff
Former Eastern Bloc field agent turned Whitehall security chief - head of DI6. He was exposed as top double agent "The White Rat" by agent Gunner, Irwin.
Quaintance To Catch a Rat Retired Field Agent
Former Eastern Bloc field agent turned politician, he was the Home minister.
John Cledge (aka 'Fritz') To Catch a Rat Retired/Killed Field Agent
Ex-field operative, a double agent working for "The White Rat", who had initially disposed of agent Gunner Irwin, believing him dead. He was later killed by agent Gunner, Irwin.
Septimus Grant To Catch a Rat Retired Field Agent
Former Eastern Bloc field agent, now a businessman.
Finder To Catch a Rat Retired Signals
Chief of the signalling department, he knew the code names and morse rhythms of all the agents of the 1960s.
Operator To Catch a Rat Active Signals
Ministry radio operator.
Bridgit* To Catch a Rat Retired Field Agent
Former Eastern Bloc field agent.
Matthew Gilpin* To Catch a Rat Retired Field Agent
Former Eastern Bloc field agent, now a university don.
Operator To Catch a Rat Active Signals
Ministry radio operator.
Operator To Catch a Rat Active Signals
Ministry radio operator.
Operator To Catch a Rat Active Signals
Ministry radio operator.
Operator To Catch a Rat Active Signals
Ministry radio operator.
Operator To Catch a Rat Active Signals
Ministry radio operator.
George Harmer The Tale of the Big Why Arrested Home Office
Home office bureaucrat who had been passing government secrets to Kommissar Verslashky.
Minister The Tale of the Big Why Retired Home Office
Home office minister in 1976.
Craig Faces Killed HQ staff
Bureaucrat in charge of the security ministry who was killed by Mullins and replaced in his post by his doppelganger, Terrison. Terrison was later arrested by agents Steed, John, Gambit, Mike and Purdey.
Mullins Faces Killed HQ staff
Hitman, he was given a ministry post after Terrison replaced Craig. Killed by agent Purdey in self defence.
Mark Frederick Clifford Faces Killed Politician
High flying pilitician expected to become Prime Minister in 1976, he was killed by Mullins and replaced by a body double, who died shortly afterwards of a heart attack..
Harold Bilston Faces Killed Archives
Ministry bureaucrat in charge of politicians' files, he was killed by Mullins and replaced by a doppelganger who fed false information to Ministry staff; arrested after the exposure of the plot.
Torrance Faces Retired HQ staff
Department of Home Security bureaucrat, he resents the Ministry's agents continually acting within his juristiction.
Dr. Graham Sleeper Active Scientist
Scientist who developed the nerve gas S-95.
Frank Hardy* Sleeper Retired/Killed Field Agent
Ex field agent and colleague of agent Steed, John who was killed when he tried to tip the Ministry off about Brady's plot to rob central London using Dr Graham's nerve gas.
MP corporal Sleeper Active Security
Security guard assigned to Dr Graham's nerve agent facility.
MP sergeant Sleeper Active Security
Security guard assigned to Dr Graham's nerve agent facility.
Larry Three Handed Game Active Field Agent
Field agent who tracked international mercenary Juventor upon his arrivial in Britain to steal the secrets passed by the 'Three-handed Game' human cyphers.
Roger Masgard Three Handed Game Retired Signals
One of the 'Three-handed Game' - a trio of civilians with exceptional memories who were inducted into the Ministry to serve as human cypher machines.
Helen McKay Three Handed Game Retired Signals
One of the 'Three-handed Game' - a trio of civilians with exceptional memories who were inducted into the Ministry to serve as human cypher machines.
General Three Handed Game Retired Military liaison
Military staff in charge of the 'Three-handed Game' human cypher signalling scheme.
Tony Fields Three Handed Game Retired Signals
One of the 'Three-handed Game' - a trio of civilians with exceptional memories who were inducted into the Ministry to serve as human cypher machines.
Cary Three Handed Game Active Field Agent
CIA agent who tested the ability of the 'Three-handed Game' to memorise their segments.
Larry's gumshoe Three Handed Game Killed Field Agent
Field agent who trailed the mercenary Juventor and his sidekick Ivan; killed by Ivan.
Major Prentice Dirtier by the Dozen Active Military liaison
Assisted agent Steed, John in uncovering Col. 'Mad Jack' Miller's plot to rob foreign treasuries and direct the blame at the British Army.
Colonel Elroyd Foster Dirtier by the Dozen Retired Military Liaison
Uncle of agent Purdey who assisted her in uncovering Colonel 'Mad Jack' Miller's plot.
Peter Travis* Dirtier by the Dozen Killed Field Agent
Contact of agent Gambit, Mike who returned to Britain with footage of Colonel 'Mad Jack' Miller and his men fighting in Africa as mercenaries; killed by Keller, a corporal under Miller's command.
Charles Thornton Gnaws Retired/Killed Scientist
Chief of research at a Ministry of Agriculture research facility, he killed Ministry agent Harlow, Edward to cover up his treachery, and coerced fellow scientist Carter to steal secrets and isotopes from the centre after he retired from the government to set up a private research facility. He was killed by a mutated rat which had been affected by his growth formula derived from a radioactive isotope.
Carter Gnaws Killed Scientist
Research scientist under Thornton, Charles who was coerced into stealing government secret to promote Thornton's private research. He was killed by a mutated rat which had been affected by his growth formula derived from a radioactive isotope.
George Ratcliffe Gnaws Retired Field Agent
Special Branch agent sent in to investigate the sewers near the ambassadorial district of London after reports of something large moving through them. He was killed by a mutated rat which had been affected by his growth formula derived from a radioactive isotope.
Walters Gnaws Retired Security
Security guard at the Ministry of Agriculture research facility.
Edward Harlow Gnaws Killed Field Agent
Field agent conducting surveillance on Thornton's Ministry of Agriculture research facility. He was killed by Thornton when he tried to arrest him for stealing sensitive documents.

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