Anthony Cave Brown

Anthony Cave Brown
Anthony Cave Brown
Born	21 March 1929; Bath, Somerset,England
Died	14 July 2006(aged 77)
Education	Luton Grammar School
Occupation(s)	Journalist, author, and historian
Spouse	Caroline Gilliat (sep.1962)
Partner	Joan Simpson Halphen
Children	2, includingAmanda Eliasch
Relatives	Sidney Gilliat(father-in-law)

Anthony Cave Brown(21 March 1929 – 14 July 2006) was a British journalist, espionage non-fiction writer, and historian.

Early years

Brown^[1]was born inBath,and moved to London as a boy, stuffing propaganda leaflets into bombs meant forNazi Germanytowards the end of World War II. He was educated atLuton Grammar School,and joined theRoyal Air Forcefor hisnational service,working as a photographer.

Journalist

Brown began his reporting career inLutonandBristolbefore moving toFleet Streetin the mid-1950s where he joined theDaily Mail.During the late 1950s he covered theHungarian uprising(in 1956) and theAlgerian War of Independence.In 1958 he was awarded Reporter of the Year. Brown secured the first Western interview with Egyptian president,Gamel Abdel Nasser,and was a frequent drinking companion ofKim Philbyin the Middle East prior to the latter's 1963 defection to theSoviet Union.He also interviewed thedissidentSoviet writerBoris Pasternak,who at the time was under surveillance, in 1959. He subsequently smuggled two of Pasternak's poems back to the UK, one of which was immediately published in theDaily Mail.

Brown earned a reputation as an adventurous cutting-edge reporter, but developed something of an extravagant lifestyle, and often left behind large unpaid bills on his foreign trips, according to colleagues. He rode on the firstnuclear-powered submarine,and travelled to the South Pole with SirVivian Fuchs.

In 1960 Brown returned to Britain as chief reporter for theDaily Mail,working to uncover corruption inScotland Yard,and a major espionage case at thePortlandnaval base.

In 1962 Brown separated from his wife Caroline Gilliat (daughter of the British filmmakerSidney Gilliat) and their two small children. The marriage ended in divorce. The daughter,Amanda Eliasch,is a photographer.

In 1962 Brown moved to the United States, spending a year atStanford University'sHoover Institutionas a visiting fellow. He covered theVietnam Warin the 1960s, and worked in Australia for a television station belonging toRupert Murdoch.He also worked in Singapore and Malaysia.

Brown settled in Washington, D.C., later moving to northernVirginia.He began a 37-year relationship with Joan Simpson Halphen, a woman whom he had met in Paris, and utilized her considerable wealth to begin a second career as a major book author and historian, specializing in espionage, World War II, andCold Warthemes. Brown died ofdementiaandpneumonia-related causes inWarrenton, Virginia,US on 14 July 2006, at age 77. Joan Simpson Halphen predeceased him by four months.

He also has an illegitimate child born in 1965, the result of an affair with a young Australian woman, Sandra Janet Tillet. They were to be married but she considered him "unreliable" and returned to Australia.

Author and historian

Brown's first major work to attract widespread attention wasBodyguard of Lies(1975), which examined the strategical elements of World War II, includingcodebreakingand its effect on the war's outcome. He followed up on this theme with a book,The Last Hero: Wild Bill Donovan,aboutWilliam J. Donovan,the director of the AmericanOffice of Strategic Servicesduring World War II; theOffice of Strategic Serviceslater evolved into theCentral Intelligence Agency.Another espionage-related effort was a 1987 biography of SirStewart Menzies,who served as head of BritishMI6(Secret Intelligence Service) during World War II. The book was titledC: The Life of Sir Stewart Graham Menzies, Churchill's Spymaster.His bookTreason in the Blood: H. St. John Philby, Kim Philby, and the Spy Case of the Century,published in 1994, examined the interconnected lives of the famous British spiesKim PhilbyandHarry St. John Philby,son and father. His final 1999 bookOil, God and Gold: The Story of Aramco and the Saudi Kings,examined theAramcocompany inSaudi Arabia.

Major works

Bodyguard of Lies.New York:Harper & Row(1975).ISBN 1585746924.
The Secret War Report of the OSS(1976).ISBN 0425032531.
The Secret History of the Atomic Bomb,withCharles B. MacDonald(1977).ISBN 0440577284.
Operation World War III: Secret American Plan (Dropshot) for War with the Soviet Union in 1957(1979).ISBN 0853681236.
On a Field of Red: the Communist International and the Coming of World War II,withCharles B. MacDonald(1981).ISBN 0399125426.
The Last Hero: Wild Bill Donovan.New York:Times Books(Dec. 1982).ISBN 0686959752.
"C": The Life of Sir Stewart Menzies, Churchill's Spymaster.London: Michal Joseph; New York:MacMillan(1987/88).ISBN 0025173901.
Treason in the Blood: H. St. John Philby, Kim Philby, and the Spy Case of the Century.Boston:Houghton Mifflin(1994).ISBN 039563119X.
Oil, God and Gold: The Story of Aramco and the Saudi Kings(26 Feb. 1999).ISBN 0395592208.

References

^Brown, Anthony Cave (1988)."C": The Secret Life of Sir Stewart Menzies, Churchill's Spymaster.London: Michael Joseph. p.5.ISBN 0-02-517390-1.in my case Cave was a Christian name, not a surname.

External links

"Booknotesinterview with Brown onTreason in the Blood".booknotes.org. 15 January 1995. Archived fromthe originalon 18 May 2015.Retrieved16 May2015.
"Book Discussion Treason Blood (Video)".C-SPAN.14 December 1994.Retrieved16 May2015.

[1] Brown, Anthony Cave (1988)."C": The Secret Life of Sir Stewart Menzies, Churchill's Spymaster.London: Michael Joseph. p.5.ISBN 0-02-517390-1.in my case Cave was a Christian name, not a surname.

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