KENNETH BENTON

Kenneth Benton was bork in England in 1909. He obtained a position teaching in Vienna, Austria in the early to mid 30's and it was then that he was recruited by MI-6 to work for them. His cover was employment as a Passport Control Officer. When Austria was consumed during the Anschluss, he and his wife, Peggie, who also worked for MI-6, were moved to Latvia to continue working but that was short-lived when the Soviet Union swallowed the Baltic states in 1940. During the War, he was in Madrid in charge of the counter-espionage unit tracking German spies who used neutral Spain as a conduit to the U.S. and England. After the War, he remained in Spain working for the soon-to-be infamous Kim Philby. When Philby outed himself as a Soviet mole and fled to Russia, Mr. Benton's career as a foreign operative was naturally blown. He remained a faithful employee of MI-6 for many years, though no longer as a field operative.