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British spy and intelligence officer

CommanderWilfred Albert "Biffy" Dunderdale, CMG, MBE (24 December 1899 – 13 November 1990) was a British spy and intelligence officer.^[1][2] It has been suggested that Dunderdale was used by Ian Fleming as a basis for the character of James Bond.^[3]

Life

Wilfred Dunderdale was born in Odessa, son of Richard Albert Dunderdale, a shipping magnate.^[1]

Dunderdale served in the Royal Navy (RNVR) during the First World War, despite his thick accent^[4] he had grown up speaking Russian and English.

During the Russian Civil War he was an interpreter with White Russian naval commanders in the Black Sea, once having to sit discreetly outside for a White Russian general "chatting up" the general's mistress until he was no longer required! (neither spoke the other's language). He went to Yekaterinburg to investigate the murder of the Imperial family.

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