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The secret intelligence operation set up in 1940 at the instigation of Churchill and directed from its HQ in New York by Sir William Samuel Stephenson, CC, MC, DFC. Stephenson was a Canadian spymaster, and the senior representative of British intelligence for the western hemisphere during World War II. He conducted the secret diplomacy between Churchill and Roosevelt and was responsible for many top level operations including the breaking of Enigma, the background to the assassination of Heydrich, Anglo-American intelligence cooperation in the sinking of Bismarck, and the Manhatten Project.
