Case Studies

Fashion Designer & Dressmaker to HM The Queen

From SOE operations in occupied Belgium to founding one of Savile Row's most celebrated fashion houses and dressing the Queen for three decades.

Novelist & Literary Giant

War Office intelligence liaison officer who wrote A Dance to the Music of Time — one of the greatest achievements in twentieth-century English fiction.

Spy, Author & Global Cultural Figure

National Service interrogator in Austria who became one of the most celebrated writers in the English language, reshaping espionage fiction permanently.

Author, Politician & Governor General of Canada

Intelligence Corps officer at GHQ who became a bestselling novelist, Director of Information, Member of Parliament, and Governor General of Canada.

Intelligence Officer & Government Minister

Arabic-speaking intelligence officer in Iraq and Afghanistan who became chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee and UK Security Minister.

Chairman of British Rail

Japanese-language interrogator in Burma and Japan who restructured British Rail and guided it through one of its most turbulent periods.

Broadcasting Pioneer & Founder of the BFBS

Intelligence Corps officer whose capture of Reichssender Hamburg founded the British Forces Broadcasting Service. Songwriter of A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square.

Editor of Punch & Public Intellectual

Intelligence Corps officer in East Africa, Algiers and Paris who became one of Britain's most formidable journalists and television broadcasters.

Intelligence Corps to Cyber Security Consultancy

Signals intelligence and InfoSec specialist who transitioned from 1 ISR Brigade to build a career in cyber security and information assurance.