TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kell,Constance
AU  - Binns,Stewart
AU  - Northcott,Chris
TI  - A secret well kept: the untold story of Sir Vernon Kell, founder of MI5 
SN  - 9781844864355
U1  - 327.12410092 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London
PB  - Conway, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing
KW  - Kell, Vernon,
KW  - Kell, Constance,
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - MI5
KW  - Officials and employees
KW  - Biography
N1  - "Foreword by Caroline Coverdale, great-granddaughter of Sir Vernon and Lady Kell"--Title page; Includes bibliographical references
N2  - BIOGRAPHY: HISTORICAL, POLITICAL & MILITARY. The United Kingdom's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency, most commonly know as MI5, was founded in 1909 by Sir Vernon Kell KBE. Kell ('K' within the agency) not only founded MI5 but was also its Director for 31 years, the longest tenure of any head of a British government department during the twentieth century. Kell was also fluent in six foreign languages, making him arguably the most gifted linguist ever to head a Western intelligence agency. A Secret Well Kept was written by Kell's wife, Lady Constance Kell, in the late 1940s. It is an unparalleled insight into the personal life of an extremely powerful and important man, from the one person with whom he was most intimate. Nearly half of A Secret Well Kept is devoted to Kell's life before MI5 and about half of the section on Kell's life from 1909-1940 covers his personal life outside MI5
ER  -