Give us Elizabeth's spymaster!

@jennifergridley8111

9 ай бұрын

Yes! Seconded ❤

@Bigmattphatcat

9 ай бұрын

Yes! Thirded ❤ More Ser Walsingham!

@davidslate2005

9 ай бұрын

I totally support this.

@christianbernhard1828

9 ай бұрын

..please 😊😅

@roscojenkins7451

9 ай бұрын

Six...eth

Sir Francis Walsingham deserves his own video! 🍻

@--enyo--

9 ай бұрын

I was hoping someday they’d do a Biographics video on it, but doesn’t look like that will happen now.

@singingbowels

9 ай бұрын

Totally!!

@shady83

9 ай бұрын

Walsingham deserves his own channel

@kurtisrota8445

9 ай бұрын

@@--enyo--what are you talking about lol. Do you think just because he was mentioned in this video that he wouldnt get a dedicated video because simon has already talked briefly about him or something? Because thats stupid if so man

@HamInHashomron

9 ай бұрын

The Mossad is #1 bar none.

YES! We want the Elisabeth's spy episode! I loved the way Ken Follet tackled this stories in his Coloumn of Fire!

@LisaBowers

9 ай бұрын

Did you know he's coming out with a new Kingsbridge novel in September? It's called The Armour of Light. 🥳

@IpoteticAMVsChannel

9 ай бұрын

@@LisaBowers can't wait! ❤

@madMARTYNmarsh1981

8 ай бұрын

Have you read Pillars of the Earth? I got that book for free years ago, I still read it regularly because it is so good.

Heck yes I want to know about QEI's spymaster!!!

Would love to see the history of spycraft

@shihtzu291

8 ай бұрын

Best spy agencies in the world are the UK - MI5, MI6 and GCHQ. America - CIA, NSA and Homeland Security. Israel - well its got to be Mossad! They strike fear to anyone that wishes Israel harm anywhere around the world. And Russian's FSB and GRU but that being said if its being run like it military then they probably ain't much cop nowadays! But yeah the British, Americans and the Israeli's are definitely the best in the world right now. 🇬🇧🤝🇺🇸🤝🇮🇱👍

"There is no spy agency." -Spy agency spokesperson

I think The West Wing said it best; “our failures are public and our successes are private.”

@jimb9063

8 ай бұрын

Nice quote. I guess if no one knows you've had a success, they might not know it was you, or even if anything's happened at all.

Christopher Lee best role. Killing Nazis as a spy. Best role because he made the world better. Not his best on screen role of course

@animepussy8356

9 ай бұрын

I think his best role was Count Dooku where he had a laser sword fight with a a cgi yoda

@elfpimp1

9 ай бұрын

His heavy metal band and singing were pretty top notch though!! 😁👍

@byproductofcheese

9 ай бұрын

What about the Soviets. Did he kill any of them?

@StefanMedici

9 ай бұрын

​@@byproductofcheeseWhy would he kill allies?

@byproductofcheese

9 ай бұрын

@@StefanMedici just cause their allies doesn't mean they liked each other. There was multiple times where the Soviet Union imprisoned American pilots during the war and wouldn't let them go till sometime after world war 2. One thing you have to understand just cause they were allies doesn't mean they wouldn't sabotage each other.

As much as many of my fellow Americans like to take pride in our involvement in WW2 etc, it is a fact that our country learned a LOT from British intelligence. We even adopted many practices and followed training and instruction from British intelligence in a big way. The history (what we are allowed to know) is fascinating and makes me so glad for our friends over the pond. Much respect.

@Ghosts1129

8 ай бұрын

NGL, the Americans learn't their lesson early on for ignoring the brits. We informed them of so much to be careful of and y'all had a leader who hated us so he ignored our advice, meaning tonnes of lives lost. (Top of my memory was being told that Germans had subs outside of America, and was told to turn lights off if they want to leave so they do not get spotted. They didn't turn any lights off in the harbor, so the subs were like "Oh look a piece of metal gonna go to the bottom of the sea") Once we started to communicate and help each other was the moment the war could end with less casualties.

@powdergate

8 ай бұрын

big brothers over the pond*

A look at Walsingham's work would be very interesting. Coincidentally, a video on a naval history channel I follow highlighted one of his few failures, which was the exact disposition and timing of the Spanish Armada. It wasn't the fault of his organization though. There were so many conflicting orders coming out of Madrid so quickly that not even the Armada commanders themselves always knew what they were supposed to be doing. And if they didn't know, an intelligence service wasn't going to either.

@Delmworks

9 ай бұрын

Success through confusion! (Well, until the weather turned)

@Piitaa_Pain

9 ай бұрын

which channel is this?

@the-chillian

9 ай бұрын

@@Piitaa_Pain drachinifel

@elyjane8316

9 ай бұрын

There is. Elizabeth's Spymaster, I highly recommend it.

My patriarchal great-grandfather was a military spy during WW2 and evacuated himself and his family from their home in Singapore before the Japanese invaded, moving to Perth, Western Australia. He then left to England to join the SOE and work in occupied France until the war ended. Then, as the Cold War begun, he was appointed the first head of Allied security in West Berlin. Part of the reason that he didn't return home is that his wife divorced him basically as soon as she could and forbade his son (my grandfather) from ever trying to contact him. By the time he and my father decided to try and find him in the 80's, he was dying in an aged care facility from Alzheimer's. I'm not exactly clear on how the knowledge of what he actually did during and after the war came to our family, but I hope to one day learn more information about what he did, because that is a story that should be told and remembered.

@jimb9063

8 ай бұрын

Wow, thanks for sharing. My mum knows a lady who spent a long time in occupied Europe during WW2. She won't say anything about it. There's two things at play I think. One is a generational thing. Even people in the regular military didn't (and still don't to a lesser extent probably) talk about what they did. Then there's the added secretive nature of the security services on top of that. Even when Bletchley Park became public knowledge, some folk STILL didn't talk about what they did there, even though they were able to legally. I think this type of life must be very hard on families, as you demonstrated in your story. There seems to be nothing but pure brutal national interest at the heart of what nation states and their security services do. No room for morality beforehand. The morality of action taken is something that each intelligence officer has to worry about by themselves afterwards though. Sometimes there aren't good outcomes, just bad ones and even worse ones. Hell of a burden to take on yourself, and hard to live with someone who has to.

@clairegresswell

8 ай бұрын

Thank you both for your incredible stories. To touch on what you said, my father spent over 25 years working for Her Majesty's Armed Forces & we do seem to have lost a little of doing something for the greater good, something more important than looking inwards & putting the individual first. We can learn so very much from the past.

@shihtzu291

8 ай бұрын

You're Grandfather was a national hero to Great Britain 🇬🇧. We here in the UK hold people like him in very high regard. Not just for the UK but Australia, America, Canada, France, Singapore, India, Burma for all the intelligence that he gathered saved a lot of lives for the people of these countries and for that you should feel very proud of him as what he done was a very dangerous job indeed! Anyway thank you for sharing that with me and everyone else and your grandad has my utmost respect.love and respect from the United Kingdom. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧👍

This was really interesting! Would love to see a whole series on spying! Especially the older stuff that has become de-classified!

A video about the legendary SAS would be very interesting indeed.

Love these longer into the shadows videos. Hope we get more in the 20 minute range… as long as it won’t cause you to burn out

At the renaissance faire near me, there's a guy who portrays Sir Francis to the point where, having read about him, he pretty much *is* Sir Francis.

I'm reminded of a news story a few years back where a person that was to become the new chief of MI6 was immediately forced to resign because his dumbass wife announced it on facebook, resulting friends and family congratulating him and the news (obviously) going viral. I imagine those two aren't married anymore.

@SuperKendoman

9 ай бұрын

As the saying goes, "Loose lips sink ships". It was partly his fault though, as an intelligence officer and a high ranking one, he should have known about basic OPSEC especially if it had to do with a country's security

@BeingFireRetardant

9 ай бұрын

​@@SuperKendoman Also, just to remind everyone, Facebook is for self indulgent retarbs.

@georgehh2574

9 ай бұрын

Since he informed his wife of his position within SIS, how the hell did he fail to affirm the importance of secrecy?

@gerryatrix74

9 ай бұрын

@georgehh remember the pandoras box story?😂

Yes, Sir Francis Walsingham please! Also a more in depth look into WW1 espionage. We always hear about the trenches but rarely about the spying.

Love your work Simon! Thank you and your team for the ever-engaging presentations on so many different topics!

Yes Francis Walsingham deserved a video of his own.! 😊

You've got to love Simon speaking french like Brad Pitt speaking italian in Inglorious Basterds!

Sir John Dee used to sign his name as 007. He taught Walsingham.

Fleming started writing his first Bond story, while working in the department, that was responsible for Operation Mincemeat during WW2.

I'm just having dinner, I'll save this for tomorrow morning, is that ok? Count this as a view and a like...promise!

@1994mrmysteryman

9 ай бұрын

Mi6 is watching you 😐

@MartinTedder

9 ай бұрын

@@1994mrmysteryman I'll find out tomorrow...

@thejudgmentalcat

9 ай бұрын

Sounds like something a counterintelligence agent would say 🤔

@MartinTedder

9 ай бұрын

@@thejudgmentalcat we finally tracked your i.p.!

@zackerymeltonturdle5648

9 ай бұрын

Daddy?

My Late Father's WW2 leave papers said he was in MI7. He had never heard of it!!! He loved it. It clearly stated no one could ask him what he did or why he was there. He used to wander into all sorts of military installations to have a look around and no one could stop him!

@insane_troll

9 ай бұрын

Weird! MI7 only came out this year. He must have been a time traveller.

@shaunnoble783

9 ай бұрын

MI7 was a branch of the British War Office’s Directorate of Military Intelligence with responsibilities for press liaison and propaganda. The branch was originally established in the First World War and disbanded after the signing of the Armistice. In September 1939, MI7 was reformed at the outset of the Second World War as the largely civilian Press and Propaganda section of the War Office Directorate of Military Intelligence. It was transferred to the Ministry of Information in around June 1940.

@jeffdroog

9 ай бұрын

What the fuck? This story makes no sense...

@georgehh2574

9 ай бұрын

​@@insane_troll In case you're not trolling, you're a bit clueless. MI7 is an old defunct intelligence service which operated during the Second World War.

@towgod7985

8 ай бұрын

@@jeffdroog Precious few of this channels videos actually do.

I'm amazed that your editor was able to refrain from using the same, tired clip of a door being broken into...👍

Love to see a video about Walsingham! If not here, then on BioGraphics.

COOOOL!! Thank you for this ❤

I love cold war spy documentaries and learning about ops that happened then

Awesome stuff.

I'd love to see an episode on the Dionne quintuplets, specifically about how the Canadian government hijacked their care and turned them in to a sideshow, and about their adult lives.

Very well written! 👏 👏👏

Love your contenr simon! Please do an update on haiti

A very definite YES PLEASE to the video on Sir Francis Walsingham.

Forget the Bond movies... The most accurate portrayal of the SIS is found in the television series 'The Sandbaggers,' which aired from 1978 to 1980. The series was brought to a halt by the death of its creator and writer, Ian Macintosh, who died under mysterious circumstances. It is speculated that his "insider view" of the SIS was a bit "too accurate."

@georgehh2574

9 ай бұрын

I doubt they had a hand in his death as that would draw additional attention

💯 would love to see a deep dive on Walsingham.

Simon sounds 70% more British in these rather than the cold reads.

Have you done one on the story of GCHQ and NCSC? They're a separate section from the SIS

A look at Walsingham's work would be very interesting. Please do publish it!

Do SAS next. Their history is fascinating too.

Great editing! I like that you didn't put a fake grime layer on archival video and pictures.

Absolutely need a Walsingham video, please!

Yes, please! Let us get a video on that crafty fellow!

Random unrelations Into the Shadows topic request - cover the deadly development of the MV22 Osprey and subsequent training mishaps. Take a deep dive into the causes of the more impactful crashes that altogether have taken nearly 5 dozen lives.

Military Intelligence. Gather as much as you can while keeping your own from going out the door. And it appears that MI6 is very good at it!

one on Walsingham? Hell yes!

Thank you for slowing down a bit.

I love that small interaction in The Imitation Game, "There is no MI6!" MI6 operative, "That’s the spirit."

@xenon6947

7 ай бұрын

There is Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq- MI6

Yes, please. I'd like to see that!

YES!!!!.....ON THE 'HISTORY-DIVE' !!!!!!!!!

Yes to a separate video on Sir Francis

Great video. Intriguing subject, simply because it's impossible for outsiders to know whether what we think is known about these services is true in the first place. The fact that both UK services are known by old names and not their correct ones, and little tit bits about green ink just add to the mythos. I imagine they're happy shrouded in myth and legend though. A friend of my mum celebrated her 107th birthday a couple of weeks ago. All that I've managed to find out about her is she's called Rose Davies and she "spent a significant amount of time in occupied Europe in the early 1940's," spoken with a twinkle in her eye. Whether with SOE, SIS, or another one of the multitude of wartime services, your guess is as good as mine. Incredible lady.

Hell yeah Simon

Yes to a video on Walsingham!

The beard has become even more epic!

A video titled “Britain’s OG Spymaster” sounds amazing.

PLEASE do a Sir Francis Walsingham episode! His story is absolutely fascinating and inspiring.

Thank god this channel was one of Simon's own. I'm not quite sure how I could handle another channel I hold dear been ripped from my consciousness because someone couldn't manage a manageable task

@tom.m

9 ай бұрын

Ooh, is there some spicy story behind him leaving those old channels? I just assumed he no longer had time for channels he wasn't getting a full cut of.

@gamerjaqi7873

9 ай бұрын

No the person who owned them died leaving them to his daughter which got super overwhelming for her. She admitted to not being the best boss. In other words shit happens. People are making decisions that are the best for themselves. Let’s try to be decent humans shall we?

@tom.m

9 ай бұрын

@@gamerjaqi7873 Ah, that is a shame. Thanks for the details. So much slimy stuff happens on YT with stuff like MCNs, I assumed worse. That just sounds like life in all its shittyness. Agreed, wishing all involved the best in that case.

@LumiSisuSusi

9 ай бұрын

What channels has he left. I'm only aware of Top Tenz

@gamerjaqi7873

9 ай бұрын

@@LumiSisuSusi top tenz biographics geographics I think that’s it

A video on Walsingham would be delightful!

I would love to see a video about Walsingham!

American and UK special operations have successfully removed 3 Australian leaders. The second with a dismissal, the third with a leadership spill and the first one with a swim. Australia is an example of SIS and CIA successes.

Yes please do a video on Elizabeth's spymaster

Love the videos

0:53 nice.

It's ironic that Mansfield Smith-Cumming was a seaman.

@md9833

9 ай бұрын

He was known as a hardman.🤣🤣🤣

@windupmerchant1679

9 ай бұрын

@@md9833 He always wore a helmet when going into battle.

@md9833

9 ай бұрын

@@windupmerchant1679 What a jerk.

@windupmerchant1679

9 ай бұрын

@@md9833 Cumming always saw the enemy as pussies and wasn't afraid to shoot.

Please do a video on Sir Francis Walsingham! :D

Yes I would like a video of Sir Francis Walsingham

The BBC did a documentary on Queen Elizabeth, Walsingham and Burliegh and the resultant demise of Queen Mary.

Yes to a Walsingham video!

Yes we would like a video on that Og spymaster. In the words of Jean-Luc, Make it so!

Yes to the Spymaster video please

A vid about Walsingham is an excellent idea.

Thank you Simon! A bigger thank you to the writers trapped in Simons basement! Xo to all, you're the brest!

A video on Francis Wallsingham would be wonderful!

yes, I would like to see that

Way off topic, but the beard looks magnificent 👌

The last lines tells you. You won't find the name.. and why is that..? Because they are the newspaper.

3:23 Grand Moff Tarking works for MI6!

Fantastic beard, mate. Top marks.

As the old saying goes, the Second World War was won by American industry, Russian blood and British intelligence ... These MI6 guys are some of the finest intelligence officers in human history. 🍻

@decrulez

8 ай бұрын

American steel* Fun fact despite only being the size of Iowa and being constantly shelled Britain was producing more war goods than America.

It's not complete unless you mention Colonel Z. He was what was behind the real “Universal Exports” mentioned by Fleming. It was a hidden shadow group that ran parallel beside MI during WWII. Likewise, it was fully absorbed into MI6 after the war. The colonel was a rather interesting character.

With such an intrinsically interesting topic there's no need for distracting visual effects that detract from the impact of the content.

Get down to the Blazement, Fact Boi and get us the Francis Walsingham script!

Oh, please, do a video on the spymaster!!!!

It's only until recently that the British govt denied the existence of "The Incriment". The incriment is probably the closest you can get to the double O section of the movies, it's effectively a mix of SIS(MI6) & SAS. The British govt has confirmed the existence of SAS E Squadrom and has said that this is the replacement/updated version of the legendary Incriment.

Hey to everyone at M16 reading this comment 👋🏻

I want that story!!!

3:22 Is that Grand Moff Tarkin?

Walsingham episode? why the heck not? yes please!

Please do a video about mi5 and also sir Francis Walsingham

So Simon, exactly what do you do there in Prague?

I wanna see a video on GCHQ now after this one, since they've been closely linked for almost a century

My goodness Factboi actually sounds proud of the UK for once

Do an Episode on the Okhrana The Tsarist Secret Police!

@BeingFireRetardant

9 ай бұрын

Then Cheka, then NKVD, then OGPU, then KGB, then FSB... Man, the Russians really don't trust their own people do they?

Yes, profile Walsingham!

The title “Spymaster” sounds so cool

the existence of Blechly Park was classified for many years after the war

We would like to see a video about that spy master guy who worked for Queen Elizabeth

Yes give us Elizabeth's spymaster cuz you need a new video on biographics

Could you do a video on the Minesotta Starvation Experiment?

Yes please