Andrew King (spy) dating history

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Charles Andrew Buchanan King was an intelligence officer of the Z Organisation and the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS or MI6) who served during World War II and the Cold War. In 1938, he was recruited by Claude Dansey into the Z Organisation, where he was designated Z-2, answering to Thomas Kendrick and Kenneth Cohen. During the war, King was stationed in Switzerland for SIS. Here, he handled an agent named Halina Szymanska, who had access to Admiral Wilhelm Canaris. After the war, he became the SIS Controller for the Eastern Area (CEA), placed in charge of Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. Later, he was made the Chief of Station in Vienna, and then Hong Kong. King was "retired" from SIS in 1966 after revelations that he was a homosexual surfaced in connection to questions surrounding his friendship with Kim Philby while they were both studying at the University of Cambridge. In 1986, King was prosecuted alongside many of his former colleagues for the breach of classified information in relation to the book Conspiracy of Silence: The Secret Life of Anthony Blunt by the authors Barrie Penrose and Simon Freeman.