Nicholas Elliott Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

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Nicholas Elliott was born on 15 November, 1916 in London, is an officer. Discover Nicholas Elliott's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 78 years old?

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In With My Little Eye, Elliott gives an account of his last contacts with Kim Philby, in 1963. Philby, with whom Elliott had worked in Beirut, had been a friend and Elliott felt his betrayal bitterly. He volunteered to confront Philby to obtain a written confession of his espionage. Though Philby did confess to Elliott, he delayed signing a confession and fled to Moscow, where he was granted Soviet citizenship. Public criticism of MI6, which had failed to guard against his escape, was significant. Elliott, however, felt he could not have prevented Philby's flight.

In retirement Elliott was a director at Lonrho from 1963 to 1969 and then an executive director there from 1969 to 1973.

In 1956, during Khrushchev's visit to Britain, the Soviet Sverdlov-class cruiser Ordzhonikidze visited Portsmouth Harbour. The Royal Navy was interested in anti-submarine warfare equipment carried under the cruiser's stern. Elliott arranged for Crabb, an experienced ex-naval frogman, to investigate. He made one run under the ship, came back for an extra pound weight for his next attempt and failed to return from the second dive. Elliott speculated in his autobiography that Crabb suffered equipment failure. Subsequent criticism of Crabb, whom Elliott believed to be a brave and honourable officer and who had undertaken operations of the same kind before, was resented by Elliott. The Soviets, who had reported a diver in trouble near the stern did not complain but also denied responsibility for Crabb's death. The matter leaked and Prime Minister Anthony Eden protested that he had not been informed and adverse publicity ensued. Elliott claimed he had been told the operation had been cleared by the Foreign Office.

In 1943, he married Elizabeth Holberton, with whom he had one son and a daughter, Claudia, later a sub-editor at The Observer.

After leaving Trinity College, Cambridge, Elliott was offered a post in 1938 as Honorary Attache at the Hague by Sir Nevile Bland. His career in secret intelligence came by chance, like many before and after him. Sir Hugh Sinclair, Head of MI6, happened to visit the Hague, took to Elliott and offered him a job.

Elliott was Honorary attache at the British Embassy in the the Hague from 1938 to 1940. During the Second World War he served as an acting lieutenant in the Intelligence Corps. After the war he became head of station for the Secret Intelligence Service at the British Embassy in Bern in 1945 and then head of station in Vienna in 1953. He returned to London in 1956 and then served as head of station in Beirut from 1960 to 1962.

John Nicholas Rede Elliott (15 November 1916 – 13 April 1994) was an MI6 Intelligence Officer. His MI6 career was notable for his involvement with the Lionel Crabb affair in the 1950s and the flight of double agent Kim Philby to Moscow in 1963.