John Christie (1922-2001)

MI6 station chief in Kuwait (1958-62) and Jeddah (1963-4).

May 08, 2023

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John Christie (1922-2001) was an MI6 officer and one of the most service's most prominent Arabists of the postwar era. In a career which intersected with a number of key British interventions in the Middle East, he founded MI6 stations in several Gulf nations.

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