The Avengers : Ministry Personnel

The Ministry of The Avengers

1963 - 1964

(pre-1960) 1960-1 1962-3 1963-4 1965-6 1967-8 1968 1969 (1970-5) 1976 1977 (post-1978)

Operative name (or cover)	When active	Status	Disposition
John Steed	1961-9, 1974-7, 2001 (pseudonym: Invisible Jones)	Active	Field Agent
Lead field agent for the Ministry, records for the period 1962-77 are complete, 1960-1 are partially recorded; other dates are no longer held in the central archive - please refer to the controlling bodies for these periods.
Mrs Catherine Gale	1962-4	Retired	Field Agent
Non-Ministry personnel recruited by agent Steed, John early in 1962, retired from active service 1964, last heard of 1965, involved in a bullion heist at Fort Knox; she assisted another of Her Majesty's agents at that time.
Peterson	Concerto	Arrested	Bureaucrat
Attaché from the British Cultural Committee who was an enemy agent plotting to ruin trade talks between East and West.
Receptionist	Concerto	Active	Ancillary (clerical)
Receptionist at the British Cultural Committee.
Junia	Concerto	Retired	Field Agent (Animal)
Ministry-trained dog assigned to agent Steed, John, killed in a London Underground accident while between missions.
Inspector Marsh	Brief for Murder	Active	Special Branch
Scotland Yard inspector involved in the Larkin exposition, he first encountered outfit operatives in late 1962, before a formal police association had been established.
Mick Venner	The Nutshell	Arrested	Security HQ
Chief security officer at The Nutshell who was arrested after being found to be a traitor, selling secretsa to the opposition.
Disco	The Nutshell	Active	Security HQ
[Not his real name] Director of Intelligence, Security and Counter-intelligence Operations for the Ministry.
Laura	The Nutshell	Active	Security HQ
Assistant to Disco.
Susan Campbell	The Nutshell	Arrested	Security HQ
Assitant to Venner, she was also involved in the plot to sell microfilms of secret information to foreign powers.
Anderson	The Nutshell	Active	Security HQ & Field agent
Ministry agent junior to Disco, Venner and Laura. Helped arrest the traitors within the nutsell after their exposure.
Military Policeman (Bill)	The Nutshell	Active	Security HQ
In charge of outgoing communications and the main gate to the nutshell.
Guard	The Nutshell	Active	Security HQ
Security guard on detail at the Nutshell.
Guard	The Nutshell	Active	Security HQ
Security guard on detail at the Nutshell.
Guard	The Nutshell	Active	Security HQ
Security guard on detail at the Nutshell.
Guard	The Nutshell	Active	Security HQ
Security guard on detail at the Nutshell.
Bill Gordon	Man with Two Shadows	Killed/Active	Scientist
Ministry scientist killed and replaced by a man who resembled him exactly. To confuse the enemy, he was never arrested and allowed to think he had infiltrated operations, while being fed a stream of misinformation.
Charles	Man with Two Shadows, The Wringer	Active	HQ Staff
Chief of Operations during 1963-4, overseeing the activities of agent Steed, John and any independent deputies he ran.
Dr Terence	Man with Two Shadows	Retired	Medical
Ministry doctor who performed regualr health checks for field agents.
Miss Quist	Man with Two Shadows	Active	Medical
Ministry dentist for all field agents.
Borowski	Man with Two Shadows	Active	Field Agent
Field agent captured and tortured by the opposition prior to the doppelganger plot.
Guard	Man with Two Shadows	Active	Security
Guard assigned to protect Borowski.
Katie	Death Of A Batman, The Gilded Cage	Retired	Field agent (animal)
Ministry-trained dog assigned to agent Steed, John, retired from active status in late 1964 and passed away some years later.
Dave	Build a Better Mousetrap	Active	Field Agent
Special Branch man looking into the device jamming behaviour exhibited by Professor Peck's machine which was misused by his daughter Ermyntrude.
Stigant	Build a Better Mousetrap	Killed	Scientist
Atomic research scientist who assisted agent Steed, John in the 'Mousetrap' affair; killed by enemy agent Gordon.
Marion Howard	The Secrets Broker	Active	Scientist
Research scientist at Bridlington's research facility, developing underwater tracking systems.
Cliff Howard	The Secrets Broker	Killed	Scientist
Research scientist at Bridlington's research facility, developing underwater tracking systems.
Jim Carey	The Secrets Broker	Active	Scientist
Chief engineer at Bridlington's research facility.
First Officer	Dressed To Kill	Active	Communications
Raised the warning after enemy agent Newman jammed his radar station.
Radar Operator	Dressed To Kill	Active	Communications
Radar operator in Devon who first noticed Newman's jamming of the signal.
Hal Anderson	The Wringer	Active	Field Agent
Field agent for Eastern Europe in the late 1950s and 1960s, he was brainwashed by 'The Wringer' and made to condemn lead agent Steed, John as a traitor following the implanting of memory suggests by the plotters. He helped Steed arrest the plotters when his memory returned.
Oliver	The Wringer	Active	HQ staff
Assistant to Chief of Operations Charles - he accused agent Steed, John of treason following the evidence supplied by brainwashed agent Anderson, Hal.
Lovell	The Wringer	Retired	Field Agent
Field agent for Eastern Europe in the late 1950s and early 1960s, he had retired from full active service and ran a tailor's shop from which he received and disseminated low security information.
'The Wringer'	The Wringer	Arrested	Interrogations
Interrogations Department controller who, along with chief interrogator, 'The Wringer', plotted to cripple Britian's intelligence network by brainwashing field agents. Arrested after agents Steed, John - initially accused of treason by one of the brianwashed agents - and Gale, Catherine exposed the plot.
Bethune	The Wringer	Arrested	Interrogations
Chief interrogator for the Ministry, he plotted with his controller, Bethune to cripple Britian's intelligence network by brainwashing field agents. Arrested after agents Steed, John - initially accused of treason by one of the brianwashed agents - and Gale, Catherine exposed the plot.
Murdo	The Wringer	Arrested	Security (Interrogations)
Security guard for the Wringer's bunker.
Quilpie	The Outside-In Man	Retired	HQ Staff
Chief if Intelligence for the Ministry in the early 1960s, he bears a striking resemblance to Eastern Bloc diplomat, Schaeffer.
Mark Charter	The Outside-In Man	Active	Field Agent
Ministry assassin and field agent, assigned to the elimination of British traitor Andrew Ryan Sharp but was imprisoned in Aburain for some years after the failure of the attempt. Released by their authorities in 1964, he returned to Britain and planned, with the assistance of agent Steed, John, to prevent the Aburainians from profiting from their plot to kill Sharp and blame the British government.
Alice Brisket	The Outside-In Man	Active	HQ Staff
Assistant to Chief of Intelligence, Quilpie, she became amorously linked to returned agen Charter, Mark after this case.
Bob the Butcher	The Outside-In Man	Active	HQ & Field Agent
Ran the front for Quilpie's Headquarters (a butchery, with the HQ behind the cold store) and used his cover as a butcher delivering cold cuts and viands to spy on the Aburainian embassy, among other duties.
Kim Lawrence	The Charmers	Active	Field Agent
Deputised by agent Steed, John while investigating the attempts to provoke a war between the Super Powers by renegade ex-Soviet controller Keller.