it's the story of charles howard. dick ellis. he was my 6 is top intelligence officer in the united states during world war 2. dick ellis was born in australia, in 1895, and was a self taught and self trained classical cellist. he went to england on a scholarship in 1914, and almost immediately enlisted as a private in the british army. he fought in france during world war one and was decorated for his bravery. he returned to england was promoted to the rank of captain and transferred to south and then central asia. he was eventually promoted to the rank of colonel. he joined the foreign ministry and enrolled in oxford university where he studied russian and german in 1921 ellis joined a m i 6 and was sent on his 1st assignment to constance and opal. the 1st of many, many, 4 and assignments. spending much of the 19 thirty's in london ellis was put in charge of m. i 6 wire taps on the german embassy there. translating conversations between 8 of hitler and you'll walk in one ribbon truck for the british government. as it was in 194

it's the story of charles howard. dick ellis. he was m i 6 is top intelligence officer in the united states during world war 2. dick ellis was born in australia, in 1895, and was a self taught and self trained classical cellist. he went to england on a scholarship in 1914, and almost immediately enlisted as a private in the british army. he fought in france during world war one and was decorated for his bravery. he returned to england was promoted to the rank of captain and transferred to south and then central asia. he was eventually promoted to the rank of colonel. he joined the foreign ministry and enrolled in oxford university where he studied russian and german in 1921. ellis joined m i 6 and was sent on his 1st assignment to constance and opal. the 1st of many, many for an assignments. spending much of the 19 thirty's in london ellis was put in charge of m. i 6 wire taps on the german embassy there. translating conversations between 8 of hitler and you'll walk in one ribbon truck for the british government. as it was in 194

and so is the story of dick ellis or everybody loves it. goods by story. i know i do, i always have. but what makes by stories so great is that they're either true for their based on truth. this story is different. dick ellis was a patriot. that's what the evidence shows. he was not a spy. he was not a traitor. and rather than having highly paid writers make their money by denigrating the memory of the man who should be celebrated. i'd like to thank our guest. jesse, thanks for being with us today, and thank you to our viewers for joining us for another episode of the list of loaners. i'm john kerry. aku, please follow me on some stack at john q reactive. we'll see you next time the . 2 the, the analysis, what day that he said that then you can move him. so facade, indeed to him. he would do it assuming that the, to look into intermedia. nikoto is the dimensions of the photo i'm seen. send the most of the video to the to the motion of the the have goodness, then has attracted conquerors attention from time immemorial, in the 19th century, the british empir

so give us an overview of dick ellis's career. what made him attractive to in my 6? he had no formal training or education. why did my 6 think he would make a good spy? uh well think it was uh, was born in australia or in 1995. he had a pretty tough charles old raising. his mother died when he was about 2 or 3 years old. and he was shuffled around funds up and down the so these guys with his drive here because his father essentially couldn't take care of him. and um, he sort of came out of the window, the sort of calmly schoolmaster who started educating dick and dick sort of uh, went to not classes at the university in um, in melbourne to and managed to get a scholarship to, to the guy. and then he went out to the guy and not a 14 sort of planning to become a student. and of course, the 1st of all broke out and he was, you know, quite a dig around, a soldier he made was injured sort of multiple times on the western front. while he was convalescing in sort of military hospitals, he started studying russian and became quite fluent in russian. and obviously this was as

it's the story of charles howard. dick ellis. he was m i 6 is top intelligence officer in the united states during world war 2. dick ellis was born in australia, in 1895, and was a self taught and self trained class school cellist. he went to england on a scholarship in 1914 and almost immediately and listed as a private in the british army. he fought in france during world war one and was decorated for his break.

it's the story of charles howard. dick ellis. he was m i 6 is top intelligence officer in the united states during world war 2. dick ellis was born in australia, in 1895, and was a self taught and self trained classical cellist. he went to england on a scholarship in 1914, and almost immediately enlisted as a private in the british army. he fought in france during world war one and was decorated for his bravery. he returned to england was promoted to the rank of captain and transferred to south and then central asia. he was eventually promoted to the rank of colonel. he joined the foreign ministry and enrolled in oxford university where he studied russian and german in 1921 ellis joined m i 6 and was sent on his 1st assignment to constance and opal. the 1st of many, many foreign assignments, spending much of the 19 thirty's in london ellis was put in charge of m. i 6 wire taps on the german embassy there. translating conversations between 8 of hitler and you'll walk in von reuben trough.