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John Cecil Masterman Quotes

English academic and author (1891-1977)

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Sir John Cecil Masterman OBE (12 January 1891 – 6 June 1977) was a noted academic, sportsman and author. However, he was best known as chairman of the Twenty Committee, which during World War II ran the Double Cross System, the scheme that controlled double agents in Britain.

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Alternative Names: John Masterman • Sir John Cecil Masterman • J.C. Masterman

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It was a great game, and exciting and dramatic and even at times tragic - but funny it emphatically was not.

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