BINGHAM, DAVID• 531966 and a second autobiography,Coronet among the Grass,was
released in 1974.
After her education at the Sorbonne, Charlotte was recruited into
MI5, as a filing clerk, helped by her father, who was a close friend of
the ‘‘Registry Queen,’’ Bunny, Lady Cadogan. After an introductory
course atLeconfield House, she was posted to C Branch in Cork
Street, where she found the work very uninspiring. Among MI5’s
more unconventional employees, she kept a bottle of champagne on
her desk and photographs of film stars on the filing cabinets. She re-
calls that much of her time was spent typing letters with impossibly
long Greek Cypriot names and she was really more interested in
shopping at Fenwick’s, the conveniently close department store, and
in the weekend house parties that dominated the debutante season at
that time. Later her section moved to new accommodations in Queen
Street, Mayfair, directly under thecounterespionageunit run by
Charles Elwellthat caughtJohn Vassallin September 1962. Her
clandestine career was to be short lived, partly due to the reception
of her first book, but also because of her poor typing and the increas-
ingly long lunches she spent with publishers. Her sense of security
was also regarded as dubious, especially after an estimated 29 files
of classified atomic documents in her care were mislaid. As the Di-
rector of C Branch at the time remarked, ‘‘We can only hope they
haven’t been lost on a Number 9 bus.’’
Charlotte and Terence Brady continue a successful writing part-
nership and live in Bruton, Somerset.BINGHAM, DAVID.A Royal Navy sublieutenant assigned to HMS
Rothesayin Portsmouth, David Bingham was a torpedo specialist
who began supplying classified data to the Soviet naval attache ́, Lori
Kuzmin, in early 1970. As an expert on sonar, Bingham had been
commissioned from the ranks and was heavily in debt when he sold
information about the submarine 2001 sonar system to the Soviets
for £2,810. He was sentenced to 21 years’ imprisonment in March
- His wife Maureen, who also received two and a half years, later
claimed that she had cooperated withMI5and demanded a review
of her conviction. While in prison he divorced Maureen and married
a cousin, Mary. After his release from prison in 1981, Bingham
changed his name to Brough and began a new career, managing an