Lockhart himself published many books on politics, spying, the military and whiskey. After the war he was close friends with Ian Fleming and relayed stories of his adventures and others he knew about, helping Fleming to form the James Bond character and stories. In WW2 Lockhart became the director general of the Political Warfare Executive, responsible for co-ordinating all propaganda against the Axis powers. In the 1930s he published his memoir, which became a bestseller and inspired a relatively poor film adaptation. Lockhart was captured and imprisoned in the Kremlin but escaped trial and likely execution due to a secret agent prisoner exchange with the British. He worked alongside Arthur Ransome and Sidney Reilly in an effort to overthrow the government, which probably accounts for the assassination attempt against Lenin. Following the Bolshevik revolution he returned to Russia as the first British envoy to the new Bolshevik government, but also working in an anti-Bolshevik capacity for SIS. They won the Moscow league championship that year.Īt the time of the February 1917 revolution Lockhart was the acting Consul-General in Russia and he fled to Britain. He was known to be a decent footballer and in 1912 was signed up by Morozov, a local factory team. He came from a family of schoolmasters and after a period in Malaysia he joined the British Foreign Service and was posted to Moscow as Vice-Consul. Intelligence involvement: Worked for the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS/MI6) during WW1 and was director general of the Police Warfare Executive in WW2.Ĭulture involvement: Prolific writer, including Memoirs of a British Agent in 1932 about his WW1 exploits, which was adapted into the film British Agent.īio: Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart was born in Fife to Scottish parents, and was educated at Fettes College, Edinburgh.

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