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Major General Sir 'Colin McVean Gubbins' (1896-1976) was the prime mover of the SOE (Special Operations Executive) in the Second World War. He was also responsible for setting up the secret Auxiliary Units. Colin McVean Gubbins was educated at Cheltenham College.
His star crytographer at SOE was Leo Marks, whose book ''Between Silk and Cyanide'' (1998) contains a detailed portrait of Gubbins and his work, as Marks knew it. At one point (p. 222), Marks describes Gubbins:
Sir Colin's father, John Harington Gubbins (1852-1929), served with distinction as a scholar-diplomat in Japan for 30 years.

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★ Edmund Charaszkiewicz

★ Jan Kowalewski.

Bibliography

★ Peter Wilkinson and Joan Bright Astley, ''Gubbins and SOE'', London, Leo Cooper, 1993, ISBN 0-85052-556-X.
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