Ministry Personnel : 1976

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.
Mike Gambit
Name/alias: Mike Gambit
When active: 1976–7
Status: Active
Disposition: Field Agent
Summary:
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
Name/alias: Purdey
When active: 1976–7
Status: Active
Disposition: Field Agent
Summary:
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
Name/alias: George Stannard
When active: The Eagle’s Nest
Status: Killed
Disposition: Field Agent
Summary:
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
Name/alias: Roland
When active: House of Cards
Status: Retired
Disposition: Field Agent
Summary:
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
Name/alias: Spence
When active: House of Cards
Status: Killed
Disposition: Training
Summary:
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
Name/alias: David Miller
When active: House of Cards
Status: Killed
Disposition: Field Agent
Summary:
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
Name/alias: Professor Vasil
When active: House of Cards
Status: Retired
Disposition: Scientist
Summary:
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
Name/alias: Teenager
When active: House of Cards
Status: Active
Disposition: Distraction
Summary:
Hired to confuse the enemy agents who were trying to forcibly repatriate Professor Vasil.
Teenager
Name/alias: Teenager
When active: House of Cards
Status: Active
Disposition: Distraction
Summary:
Hired to confuse the enemy agents who were trying to forcibly repatriate Professor Vasil.
Teenager
Name/alias: Teenager
When active: House of Cards
Status: Active
Disposition: Distraction
Summary:
Hired to confuse the enemy agents who were trying to forcibly repatriate Professor Vasil.
Teenager
Name/alias: Teenager
When active: House of Cards
Status: Active
Disposition: Distraction
Summary:
Hired to confuse the enemy agents who were trying to forcibly repatriate Professor Vasil.
Teenager
Name/alias: Teenager
When active: House of Cards
Status: Active
Disposition: Distraction
Summary:
Hired to confuse the enemy agents who were trying to forcibly repatriate Professor Vasil.
Teenager
Name/alias: Teenager
When active: House of Cards
Status: Active
Disposition: Distraction
Summary:
Hired to confuse the enemy agents who were trying to forcibly repatriate Professor Vasil.
Teenager
Name/alias: Teenager
When active: House of Cards
Status: Active
Disposition: Distraction
Summary:
Hired to confuse the enemy agents who were trying to forcibly repatriate Professor Vasil.
Teenager
Name/alias: Teenager
When active: House of Cards
Status: Active
Disposition: Distraction
Summary:
Hired to confuse the enemy agents who were trying to forcibly repatriate Professor Vasil.
Teenager
Name/alias: Teenager
When active: House of Cards
Status: Active
Disposition: Distraction
Summary:
Hired to confuse the enemy agents who were trying to forcibly repatriate Professor Vasil.
Teenager
Name/alias: Teenager
When active: House of Cards
Status: Active
Disposition: Distraction
Summary:
Hired to confuse the enemy agents who were trying to forcibly repatriate Professor Vasil.
Teenager
Name/alias: Teenager
When active: House of Cards
Status: Active
Disposition: Distraction
Summary:
Hired to confuse the enemy agents who were trying to forcibly repatriate Professor Vasil.
Teenager
Name/alias: Teenager
When active: House of Cards
Status: Active
Disposition: Distraction
Summary:
Hired to confuse the enemy agents who were trying to forcibly repatriate Professor Vasil.
Teenager
Name/alias: Teenager
When active: House of Cards
Status: Active
Disposition: Distraction
Summary:
Hired to confuse the enemy agents who were trying to forcibly repatriate Professor Vasil.
Teenager
Name/alias: Teenager
When active: House of Cards
Status: Active
Disposition: Distraction
Summary:
Hired to confuse the enemy agents who were trying to forcibly repatriate Professor Vasil.
Teenager
Name/alias: Teenager
When active: House of Cards
Status: Active
Disposition: Distraction
Summary:
Hired to confuse the enemy agents who were trying to forcibly repatriate Professor Vasil.
Teenager
Name/alias: Teenager
When active: House of Cards
Status: Active
Disposition: Distraction
Summary:
Hired to confuse the enemy agents who were trying to forcibly repatriate Professor Vasil.
Teenager
Name/alias: Teenager
When active: House of Cards
Status: Active
Disposition: Distraction
Summary:
Hired to confuse the enemy agents who were trying to forcibly repatriate Professor Vasil.
Teenager
Name/alias: Teenager
When active: House of Cards
Status: Active
Disposition: Distraction
Summary:
Hired to confuse the enemy agents who were trying to forcibly repatriate Professor Vasil.
Felix Kane
Name/alias: Felix Kane
When active: The Last of the Cybernauts...??
Status: Retired
Disposition: Field Agent
Summary:
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
Name/alias: Doctor Marlow
When active: The Last of the Cybernauts...??
Status: Active
Disposition: Scientist
Summary:
Scientisit in Charge of the Electronic and Cybernetic Research Institute.
Professor Steven Mason
Name/alias: Professor Steven Mason
When active: The Last of the Cybernauts...??
Status: Active
Disposition: Scientist
Summary:
Cybernetics expert forced to design a cybersuit for double agent Kane, Felix.
Tom Fitzroy
Name/alias: Tom Fitzroy
When active: The Last of the Cybernauts...??
Status: Retired
Disposition: HQ
Summary:
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
Name/alias: 2nd Guard
When active: The Last of the Cybernauts...??
Status: Retired
Disposition: Security
Summary:
Security guard for Professor Mason, retired from service after being attacked by a cybernaut.
Terry Markham
Name/alias: Terry Markham
When active: The Last of the Cybernauts...??
Status: Killed
Disposition: Field Agent
Summary:
Field agent who uncovered double agent Kane, Felix, and was killed by him.
1st Guard
Name/alias: 1st Guard
When active: The Last of the Cybernauts...??
Status: Killed
Disposition: Security
Summary:
Security guard for Professor Mason.
3rd Guard
Name/alias: 3rd Guard
When active: The Last of the Cybernauts...??
Status: Retired
Disposition: Security
Summary:
Cybernetic Research Institute guard.
4th Guard
Name/alias: 4th Guard
When active: The Last of the Cybernauts...??
Status: Retired
Disposition: Security
Summary:
Cybernetic Research Institute guard.
Freddy
Name/alias: Freddy
When active: The Midas Touch
Status: Retired/Killed
Disposition: Field Agent
Summary:
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
Name/alias: Professor Turner
When active: The Midas Touch
Status: Retired/Killed
Disposition: Scientist
Summary:
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
Name/alias: General Garvin
When active: The Midas Touch
Status: Retired
Disposition: Military officer
Summary:
Army general woh oversaw the security detail for visiting dignitaries in the mid 1970s.
Doctor
Name/alias: Doctor
When active: The Midas Touch
Status: Active
Disposition: Medical
Summary:
Ministry doctor in Charge of the decontamination of a country house used to demonstrate the power of Midas.
Morgan
Name/alias: Morgan
When active: The Midas Touch
Status: Active
Disposition: Signals
Summary:
Radio operator reporting to agent Steed, John.
Rostock
Name/alias: Rostock*
When active: The Midas Touch
Status: Killed
Disposition: Field Agent
Summary:
Agents atationed on the Mongolia border who first learned of the Midas plot; killed by Red Army soldiers.
Turner
Name/alias: Turner
When active: Cat Amongst the Pigeons
Status: Killed
Disposition: Field agent
Summary:
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
Name/alias: Lewington
When active: Cat Amongst the Pigeons
Status: Retired
Disposition: Scientist
Summary:
Forensics expert called in to establish the cause of the crash of Rydercroft’s plane.
Merton
Name/alias: Merton
When active: Cat Amongst the Pigeons
Status: Retired
Disposition: Field Agent
Summary:
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
Name/alias: Freddy Bradshaw
When active: Target!
Status: Killed
Disposition: Training
Summary:
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
Name/alias: Jones
When active: Target!
Status: Retired
Disposition: Training
Summary:
Assistant to Bradshaw.
George Myers
Name/alias: George Myers
When active: Target!
Status: Killed
Disposition: Field Agent
Summary:
Field agent killed by Draker’s curare plot.
Name/alias: Dr. J. Kendrick
When active: Target!, Three Handed Game
Status: Retired
Disposition: Medical
Summary:
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
Name/alias: Talmadge
When active: Target!
Status: Killed
Disposition: Field Agent
Summary:
Field agent killed by Draker’s curare plot.
David Palmer
Name/alias: David Palmer
When active: Target!
Status: Killed
Disposition: Field Agent
Summary:
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
Name/alias: McKay*
When active: Target!
Status: Killed
Disposition: Field Agent
Summary:
Field agent killed by Draker’s curare plot.
Susie, the nurse
Name/alias: Susie, the nurse*
When active: Target!
Status: Active
Disposition: Medical
Summary:
Ministry nurse assigned to Dr. Kendrick.
Potterton
Name/alias: Potterton*
When active: Target!
Status: Killed
Disposition: Field Agent
Summary:
Field agent killed by Draker’s curare plot.
Titherbridge
Name/alias: Titherbridge*
When active: Target!
Status: Active
Disposition: Archives
Summary:
Bureaucrat in Charge of ministry files.
Irwin Gunner
Name/alias: Irwin Gunner
When active: To Catch a Rat
Status: Retired
Disposition: Field Agent
Summary:
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
Name/alias: Cromwell
When active: To Catch a Rat
Status: Killed
Disposition: Field Agent/HQ staff
Summary:
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
Name/alias: Quaintance
When active: To Catch a Rat
Status: Retired
Disposition: Field Agent
Summary:
Former Eastern Bloc field agent turned politician, he was the Home minister.
John Cledge
Name/alias: John Cledge
When active: To Catch a Rat
Status: Retired/Killed
Disposition: Field Agent
Summary:
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
Name/alias: Septimus Grant
When active: To Catch a Rat
Status: Retired
Disposition: Field Agent
Summary:
Former Eastern Bloc field agent, now a businessman.
Finder
Name/alias: Finder
When active: To Catch a Rat
Status: Retired
Disposition: Signals
Summary:
Chief of the signalling department, he knew the code names and morse rhythms of all the agents of the 1960s.
Operator
Name/alias: Operator
When active: To Catch a Rat
Status: Active
Disposition: Signals
Summary:
Ministry radio operator.
Bridgit
Name/alias: Bridgit*
When active: To Catch a Rat
Status: Retired
Disposition: Field Agent
Summary:
Former Eastern Bloc field agent.
Matthew Gilpin
Name/alias: Matthew Gilpin*
When active: To Catch a Rat
Status: Retired
Disposition: Field Agent
Summary:
Former Eastern Bloc field agent, now a university don.
Operator
Name/alias: Operator
When active: To Catch a Rat
Status: Active
Disposition: Signals
Summary:
Ministry radio operator.
Operator
Name/alias: Operator
When active: To Catch a Rat
Status: Active
Disposition: Signals
Summary:
Ministry radio operator.
Operator
Name/alias: Operator
When active: To Catch a Rat
Status: Active
Disposition: Signals
Summary:
Ministry radio operator.
Operator
Name/alias: Operator
When active: To Catch a Rat
Status: Active
Disposition: Signals
Summary:
Ministry radio operator.
Operator
Name/alias: Operator
When active: To Catch a Rat
Status: Active
Disposition: Signals
Summary:
Ministry radio operator.
George Harmer
Name/alias: George Harmer
When active: The Tale of the Big Why
Status: Arrested
Disposition: Home Office
Summary:
Home office bureaucrat who had been passing government secrets to Kommissar Verslashky.
Minister
Name/alias: Minister
When active: The Tale of the Big Why
Status: Retired
Disposition: Home Office
Summary:
Home office minister in 1976.
Craig
Name/alias: Craig
When active: Faces
Status: Killed
Disposition: HQ staff
Summary:
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
Name/alias: Mullins
When active: Faces
Status: Killed
Disposition: HQ staff
Summary:
Hitman, he was given a ministry post after Terrison replaced Craig. Killed by agent Purdey in self defence.
Mark Frederick Clifford
Name/alias: Mark Frederick Clifford
When active: Faces
Status: Killed
Disposition: Politician
Summary:
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
Name/alias: Harold Bilston
When active: Faces
Status: Killed
Disposition: Archives
Summary:
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
Name/alias: Torrance
When active: Faces
Status: Retired
Disposition: HQ staff
Summary:
Department of Home Security bureaucrat, he resents the Ministry’s agents continually acting within his juristiction.
Dr. Graham
Name/alias: Dr. Graham
When active: Sleeper
Status: Active
Disposition: Scientist
Summary:
Scientist who developed the nerve gas S-95.
Frank Hardy
Name/alias: Frank Hardy*
When active: Sleeper
Status: Retired/Killed
Disposition: Field Agent
Summary:
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
Name/alias: MP corporal
When active: Sleeper
Status: Active
Disposition: Security
Summary:
Security guard assigned to Dr. Graham’s nerve agent facility.
MP sergeant
Name/alias: MP sergeant
When active: Sleeper
Status: Active
Disposition: Security
Summary:
Security guard assigned to Dr. Graham’s nerve agent facility.
Larry
Name/alias: Larry
When active: Three Handed Game
Status: Active
Disposition: Field Agent
Summary:
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
Name/alias: Roger Masgard
When active: Three Handed Game
Status: Retired
Disposition: Signals
Summary:
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
Name/alias: Helen McKay
When active: Three Handed Game
Status: Retired
Disposition: Signals
Summary:
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
Name/alias: General
When active: Three Handed Game
Status: Retired
Disposition: Military liaison
Summary:
Military staff in Charge of the ‘Three-handed Game’ human cypher signalling scheme.
Tony Fields
Name/alias: Tony Fields
When active: Three Handed Game
Status: Retired
Disposition: Signals
Summary:
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
Name/alias: Cary
When active: Three Handed Game
Status: Active
Disposition: Field Agent
Summary:
CIA agent who tested the ability of the ‘Three-handed Game’ to memorise their segments.
Larry’s gumshoe
Name/alias: Larry’s gumshoe
When active: Three Handed Game
Status: Killed
Disposition: Field Agent
Summary:
Field agent who trailed the mercenary Juventor and his sidekick Ivan; killed by Ivan.
Major Prentice
Name/alias: Major Prentice
When active: Dirtier by the Dozen
Status: Active
Disposition: Military liaison
Summary:
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
Name/alias: Colonel Elroyd Foster
When active: Dirtier by the Dozen
Status: Retired
Disposition: Military Liaison
Summary:
Uncle of agent Purdey who assisted her in uncovering Colonel ‘Mad Jack’ Miller’s plot.
Peter Travis
Name/alias: Peter Travis*
When active: Dirtier by the Dozen
Status: Killed
Disposition: Field Agent
Summary:
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
Name/alias: Charles Thornton
When active: Gnaws
Status: Retired/Killed
Disposition: Scientist
Summary:
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
Name/alias: Carter
When active: Gnaws
Status: Killed
Disposition: Scientist
Summary:
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
Name/alias: George Ratcliffe
When active: Gnaws
Status: Retired
Disposition: Field Agent
Summary:
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
Name/alias: Walters
When active: Gnaws
Status: Retired
Disposition: Security
Summary:
Security guard at the Ministry of Agriculture research facility.
Edward Harlow
Name/alias: Edward Harlow
When active: Gnaws
Status: Killed
Disposition: Field Agent
Summary:
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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