Ministry Personnel : 1963 — 1964

John Steed
Name/alias: John Steed
When active: 1961–9, 1974–7, 2001 (pseudonym: Invisible Jones)
Status: Active
Disposition: Field Agent
Summary:
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.
Mrs. Catherine Gale
Name/alias: Mrs. Catherine Gale
When active: 1962–4
Status: Retired
Disposition: Field Agent
Summary:
Non-Ministry personnel recruited by agent Steed, John early in 1962, retired from active service 1964, last heard of 1965, involved in a bullion heist at Fort Knox; she assisted another of Her Majesty’s agents at that time.
Peterson
Name/alias: Peterson
When active: Concerto
Status: Arrested
Disposition: Bureaucrat
Summary:
Attaché from the British Cultural Committee who was an enemy agent plotting to ruin trade talks between East and West.
Receptionist
Name/alias: Receptionist
When active: Concerto
Status: Active
Disposition: Ancillary (clerical)
Summary:
Receptionist at the British Cultural Committee.
Junia
Name/alias: Junia
When active: Concerto
Status: Retired
Disposition: Field Agent (Animal)
Summary:
Ministry-trained dog assigned to agent Steed, John, killed in a London Underground accident while between missions.
Inspector Marsh
Name/alias: Inspector Marsh
When active: Brief for Murder
Status: Active
Disposition: Special Branch
Summary:
Scotland Yard inspector involved in the Larkin exposition, he first encountered outfit operatives in late 1962, before a formal police association had been established.
Mick Venner
Name/alias: Mick Venner
When active: The Nutshell
Status: Arrested
Disposition: Security HQ
Summary:
Chief security officer at The Nutshell who was arrested after being found to be a traitor, selling secretsa to the opposition.
Disco
Name/alias: Disco
When active: The Nutshell
Status: Active
Disposition: Security HQ
Summary:
[Not his real name] Director of Intelligence, Security and Counter-intelligence Operations for the Ministry.
Laura
Name/alias: Laura
When active: The Nutshell
Status: Active
Disposition: Security HQ
Summary:
Assistant to Disco.
Susan Campbell
Name/alias: Susan Campbell
When active: The Nutshell
Status: Arrested
Disposition: Security HQ
Summary:
Assitant to Venner, she was also involved in the plot to sell microfilms of secret information to foreign powers.
Name/alias:Anderson
When active: The Nutshell
Status: Active
Disposition: Security HQ
& Field agent
Summary:
Ministry agent junior to Disco, Venner and Laura. Helped arrest the traitors within the nutsell after their exposure.
Military Policeman (Bill)
Name/alias: Military Policeman (Bill)
When active: The Nutshell
Status: Active
Disposition: Security HQ
Summary:
In Charge of outgoing communications and the main gate to the nutshell.
Guard
Name/alias: Guard
When active: The Nutshell
Status: Active
Disposition: Security HQ
Summary:
Security guard on detail at the Nutshell.
Guard
Name/alias: Guard
When active: The Nutshell
Status: Active
Disposition: Security HQ
Summary:
Security guard on detail at the Nutshell.
Guard
Name/alias: Guard
When active: The Nutshell
Status: Active
Disposition: Security HQ
Summary:
Security guard on detail at the Nutshell.
Guard
Name/alias: Guard
When active: The Nutshell
Status: Active
Disposition: Security HQ
Summary:
Security guard on detail at the Nutshell.
Bill Gordon
Name/alias: Bill Gordon
When active: Man with Two Shadows
Status: Killed/Active
Disposition: Scientist
Summary:
Ministry scientist killed and replaced by a man who resembled him exactly. To confuse the enemy, he was never arrested and allowed to think he had infiltrated operations, while being fed a stream of misinformation.
Name/alias: Charles
When active: Man with Two Shadows, The Wringer
Status: Active
Disposition: HQ Staff
Summary:
Chief of Operations during 1963–4, overseeing the activities of agent Steed, John and any independent deputies he ran.
Dr. Terence
Name/alias: Dr. Terence
When active: Man with Two Shadows
Status: Retired
Disposition: Medical
Summary:
Ministry doctor who performed regualr health checks for field agents.
Miss Quist
Name/alias: Miss Quist
When active: Man with Two Shadows
Status: Active
Disposition: Medical
Summary:
Ministry dentist for all field agents.
Borowski
Name/alias: Borowski
When active: Man with Two Shadows
Status: Active
Disposition: Field Agent
Summary:
Field agent captured and tortured by the opposition prior to the doppelganger plot.
Guard
Name/alias: Guard
When active: Man with Two Shadows
Status: Active
Disposition: Security
Summary:
Guard assigned to protect Borowski.
Name/alias: Katie
When active: Death Of A Batman, The Gilded Cage
Status: Retired
Disposition: Field agent (animal)
Summary:
Ministry-trained dog assigned to agent Steed, John, retired from active status in late 1964 and passed away some years later.
Dave
Name/alias: Dave
When active: Build a Better Mousetrap
Status: Active
Disposition: Field Agent
Summary:
Special Branch man looking into the device jamming behaviour exhibited by Professor Peck’s machine which was misused by his daughter Ermyntrude.
Stigant
Name/alias: Stigant
When active: Build a Better Mousetrap
Status: Killed
Disposition: Scientist
Summary:
Atomic research scientist who assisted agent Steed, John in the ‘Mousetrap’ affair; killed by enemy agent Gordon.
Name/alias: Dr. Spender
When active: Second Sight
Status: Killed
Disposition: Medical Expert
Summary:
Ophthalmic surgeon engaged by agent Steed, John to investigate Halvaarsen’s supposed medical breakthough in eye transplants
Marion Howard
Name/alias: Marion Howard
When active: The Secrets Broker
Status: Active
Disposition: Scientist
Summary:
Research scientist at Bridlington’s research facility, developing underwater tracking systems.
Cliff Howard
Name/alias: Cliff Howard
When active: The Secrets Broker
Status: Killed
Disposition: Scientist
Summary:
Research scientist at Bridlington’s research facility, developing underwater tracking systems.
Jim Carey
Name/alias: Jim Carey
When active: The Secrets Broker
Status: Active
Disposition: Scientist
Summary:
Chief engineer at Bridlington’s research facility.
First Officer
Name/alias: First Officer
When active: Dressed To Kill
Status: Active
Disposition: Communications
Summary:
Raised the warning after enemy agent Newman jammed his radar station.
Radar Operator
Name/alias: Radar Operator
When active: Dressed To Kill
Status: Active
Disposition: Communications
Summary:
Radar operator in Devon who first noticed Newman’s jamming of the signal.
Hal Anderson
Name/alias: Hal Anderson
When active: The Wringer
Status: Active
Disposition: Field Agent
Summary:
Field agent for Eastern Europe in the late 1950s and 1960s, he was brainwashed by ‘The Wringer’ and made to condemn lead agent Steed, John as a traitor following the implanting of memory suggests by the plotters. He helped Steed arrest the plotters when his memory returned.
Oliver
Name/alias: Oliver
When active: The Wringer
Status: Active
Disposition: HQ staff
Summary:
Assistant to Chief of Operations Charles - he accused agent Steed, John of treason following the evidence supplied by brainwashed agent Anderson, Hal.
Lovell
Name/alias: Lovell
When active: The Wringer
Status: Retired
Disposition: Field Agent
Summary:
Field agent for Eastern Europe in the late 1950s and early 1960s, he had retired from full active service and ran a tailor’s shop from which he received and disseminated low security information.
The Wringer
Name/alias: ‘The Wringer’
When active: The Wringer
Status: Arrested
Disposition: Interrogations
Summary:
Chief interrogator for the Ministry, he plotted with his controller, Bethune to cripple Britain’s intelligence network by brainwashing field agents. Arrested after agents Steed, John - initially accused of treason by one of the brainwashed agents - and Gale, Catherine exposed the plot.
Bethune
Name/alias: Bethune
When active: The Wringer
Status: Arrested
Disposition: Interrogations
Summary:
Interrogations Department controller who, along with chief interrogator, ‘The Wringer’, plotted to cripple Britian’s intelligence network by brainwashing field agents. Arrested after agents Steed, John - initially accused of treason by one of the brianwashed agents - and Gale, Catherine exposed the plot.
Murdo
Name/alias: Murdo
When active: The Wringer
Status: Arrested
Disposition: Security (Interrogations)
Summary:
Security guard for the Wringer’s bunker.
Quilpie
Name/alias: Quilpie
When active: The Outside-In Man
Status: Retired
Disposition: HQ Staff
Summary:
Chief if Intelligence for the Ministry in the early 1960s, he bears a striking resemblance to Eastern Bloc diplomat, Schaeffer.
Mark Charter
Name/alias: Mark Charter
When active: The Outside-In Man
Status: Active
Disposition: Field Agent
Summary:
Ministry assassin and field agent, assigned to the elimination of British traitor Andrew Ryan Sharp but was imprisoned in Aburain for some years after the failure of the attempt. Released by their authorities in 1964, he returned to Britain and planned, with the assistance of agent Steed, John, to prevent the Aburainians from profiting from their plot to kill Sharp and blame the British government.
Alice Brisket
Name/alias: Alice Brisket
When active: The Outside-In Man
Status: Active
Disposition: HQ Staff
Summary:
Assistant to Chief of Intelligence, Quilpie, she became amorously linked to returned agent Charter, Mark after this case.
Bob the Butcher
Name/alias: Bob the Butcher
When active: The Outside-In Man
Status: Active
Disposition: HQ & Field Agent
Summary:
Ran the front for Quilpie’s Headquarters (a butchery, with the HQ behind the cold store) and used his cover as a butcher delivering cold cuts and viands to spy on the Aburainian embassy, among other duties.
Kim Lawrence
Name/alias: Kim Lawrence
When active: The Charmers
Status: Active
Disposition: Field Agent
Summary:
Deputised by agent Steed, John while investigating the attempts to provoke a war between the Super Powers by renegade ex-Soviet controller Keller.

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