Volume 23, Number 8 · May 13, 1976
Superagent
By Hugh Trevor-Roper
A Man Called Intrepid: The Secret War
by William Stevenson
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 486 pp., $12.95
Sir William Stephenson is a man with a very distinguished past. A Canadian of great courage and resourcefulness, he fought gallantly in the First World War. Then he went into business and soon became a millionaire by his own exertions. But he never lost his taste for adventure, or his patriotism, which he showed in various ways. He became a friend and ally of Winston Churchill, and during the Second World War he was the principal agent of the British Secret Service in America. His chosen code name was 'Intrepid,' which he still keeps—see Who's Who—as his telegraphic address. We knew him, more impersonally (if I remember aright), as '38,000.'
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