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John Nicholas Rede Elliott, known as Nicholas Elliott, (15 November 1916 – 13 April 1994) was an MI6 Intelligence Officer; Honorary Attache, the Hague 1938-40; Acting Lieutenant, Intelligence Corps 1940-45; Head of Station, Secret Intelligence Service, Bern 1945-53, Vienna 1953-56, London 1956-60, Beirut 1960-62, a director 1963-69; executive director, Lonrho 1969-73. He was awarded the US Legion of Merit for his services to the Office of Strategic Services.〔D. H. Macindoe, ''Elliott, Sir Claude Aurelius (1888–1973)'', rev., Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, (2004)〕 His MI6 career was notable for his involvement with the Commander Lionel Crabb affair in the 1950s and the flight of traitor Kim Philby to Moscow in 1963. ==Personal life== Elliott was born in London, the son of Claude Aurelius Elliott, a don at Cambridge and Headmaster at Eton, where Nicholas was sent after Durnford School, a prep school on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset. After leaving Trinity College, Cambridge, Elliott was offered a post in 1938 as Honorary Attache at the Hague by Sir Neville Bland. His career in secret intelligence came by chance, like many before and after him. Sir Hugh Sinclair, Head of MI6, happened to visit the Hague, took to Elliott and offered him a job. In 1943, he married Elizabeth Holberton, with one son and one daughter, deceased. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nicholas Elliott」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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