image 1

John Sinclair was born in 1897. After being educated at Winchester and Dartmouth Naval College, Sinclair served as a midshipman in the Royal Navy. Later he switched to the British Army.

Sinclair studied at the Royal Academy, Woolwich and in 1919 was commissioned in the Royal Artillery. A successful officer Sinclair became Deputy Director of Military Operations during the Second World War.

In 1953 Sinclair replaced Major General Stewart Menzies as Director-General of MI6. Three years later Commander Lionel Crabb, an underwater sabotage expert, disappeared in April 1956 on a secret mission to investigate the Russian cruiser Ordkhonikidze. This created a diplomatic row as the ship had brought over Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin on a goodwill mission to Britain. Sir Anthony Eden was furious and as a result forced Sinclair to resign. He was replaced by Sir Dick White, the former head of MI6.

Sir John Sinclair died in 1977.

 

 

Home Front

Home Front Simulation

Forum Debates

Second World War

Controversial Issues in History

Cold War Debates

The Cambridge Spy Ring

The Kim Philby Spy Group

Anthony Blunt, the Royal Family and Nazi Germany

Rudolf Hess, Fascism and the British Establishment

The Strange Case of Rudolf Hess and the Duke of Hamilton

 


 



Google
 

Educational Websites

Standards Site, BBC History, PBS Online, Open Directory Project, Virtual Library,
Education Forum, History GCSE, Design & Technology, Learn History, Music Teacher Resource,
Freepedia, Teach It, Science Active, Geography IST, Brighton Photographers, Sussex Photo History,
Crompton History, Universal Teacher, English Teaching, English Online, History Learning Site,
History on the Net, Black History, Greenfield History, School History, Active History, I Love History,
E-HELP, Ed Podesta Blog, Macgregorish History, Historiasiglo20, Sintermeerten, ICT4LT

News and Search

Guardian Unlimited, Times Online, Daily Telegraph, The Independent, New York Times,
Washington Post, BBC, CNN, Yahoo News, New Scientist, Google News, Channel 4, ZDNet,
Google, Excite, Yahoo, MSN, Lycos, AOL Search, Hotbot, Metacrawler, Netscape, Ask, Search,
Go, Looksmart, Dogpile, Raging Search, All the Web, Kartoo, Search Engine Watch, About