RARE “Legendary MI6 Agent" Montague Woodhouse Hand Signed 3X5 Card COA For Sale

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RARE “Legendary MI6 Agent" Montague Woodhouse Hand Signed 3X5 Card COA:
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Up for sale the "5th Baron Terrington" Montague Woodhouse Hand Signed 3X5 Card Dated 1961. This item is certified authentic by Todd

Mueller sales and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity.

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Christopher Montague Woodhouse, 5th 1917 – 13 February 2001), was of to 1966 and again from 1970 to 1974. He was also a visiting Fellow

at Nuffield College, Oxford,

from 1956 to 1964. Terrington was an expert on Greek affairs after he first got involved with the resistance forces in Greece against the Germans

during World War II, and then

having served in the British Embassy. Montague Woodhouse was the son of Horace Woodhouse, 3rd Baron Terrington, and Valerie Phillips,

and was educated at Winchester College, and then at New College, Oxford, where

he took a double first in Classics. After completing his education, he enlisted

in the Royal Artillery in

1939 and served for the duration of World War II, being commissioned as an officer in 1940 and

rising to the rank of colonel by 1943. He was awarded a DSO and

appointed an Officer of the Order of the British

Empire in 1944. He served most of his time in the War in Greece

where his love for this country grew strong, as shown in his writings. In 1941

he was one of the SOE officers

sent to Crete to organize the resistance forces behind enemy

lines. In September 1942 he was parachuted to mainland Greece as the

Second-in-Command of the Harling Force, headed by Eddie Myers, whose task was to blow up the Gorgopotamos bridge. Following the success of this

operation Myers and Woodhouse were ordered by SOE Cairo to stay on in mainland

Greece and form the British Military Mission. Initially their presence had only

been intended for Operation Harling. Woodhouse, being one of only a few British

officers on the mission who could speak Greek, was often sent off alone to make

contact with political elements in Athens. Due to his imposing appearance of

being tall with burning ginger beard this was no mean feat, but he succeeded in

numerous trips into the Athenian suburbs, often still wearing British Army

uniform. After Myers' dismissal in July 1943, at the request of the Foreign

Office, Woodhouse became the head of the British Military Mission. After the

conclusion of World War II, Woodhouse served as Second Secretary at the British

Embassy in Athens, Greece, until 1946, whereupon he returned

to Britain, and served in a variety of industrial and academic appointments. In

1951, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of

Literature. From 1951 to 1952, he worked at the British Embassy

in Tehran, Iran, and in 1952 and 1953 was involved in

organising British aspects of the US/UK organised 1953 Iranian coup d'état. From

July 1955 to October 1959 was the Director General at the Royal

Institute of International Affairs. In 1941, the Soviets and the

British jointly invaded Iran to

secure the oilfields and supply lines and deny support for the Germans. By the

1950s, Britain was concerned by possible chaos in Iran and an invasion by the

USSR. From 1951 Woodhouse was a MI6 agent

in Tehran, operating under cover of a Foreign Office appointment. In 1952, he

was ordered to arm tribesmen in northern Iran to resist any Soviet attack. He brought weapons into Iran,

flying them from RAF Habbaniya in

Iraq, for a "resistance" movement that did not exist as yet. Later in

1953 a covert mission to remove Mohammed Mossadegh from

power was instigated by Britain's Churchill government and the U.S's

Eisenhower' administration. Mossadegh had become Iran's democratically elected

prime minister and he had nationalised oil possessions of the British-owned

Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (now British Petroleum) after Britain had refused to

negotiate away its single most valuable foreign asset.Robin Zaehner had developed contacts in Iran and when the

British were expelled, Woodhouse took his contacts to the CIA station chief.

Thus a conspiracy to overthrow Mossadegh was staged in a joint mission between

the CIA and

MI6. The CIA named the operation Operation TPAjax, erroneously referred to

as Operation Ajax, TP

standing for the Soviet-backed communist Tudeh Party of Iran.

British activities were codenamed Operation Boot. Woodhouse

proposed Operation Boot to the Eisenhower administration. It would use

"disenchanted" Iranian elements of the army, the clergy and the

political parties to oust Mossadegh. Together with the CIA he instigated and

orchestrated the "bazaaris" of Tehran to demonstrate against Mossadegh,

demonstrations which led to the deaths of hundreds or possibly thousands of

Iranian people. Woodhouse, through the Shah's

sister, encouraged the ruler not to abandon the throne. 

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