Education
The daughter of Cecil Frederick Villiers Bagot and his wife Ethel Garratt, Bagot was educated at Putney High school and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (Master of Arts).
The daughter of Cecil Frederick Villiers Bagot and his wife Ethel Garratt, Bagot was educated at Putney High school and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (Master of Arts).
Where she took a Class IV in Classical Moderations in 1927. She entered the Ministry of Defence from Scotland Yard as a secretary in 1931 and worked for both MI5 and MI6. Philby"s denial of this fact led to his eventual resignation from MI6, and his flight to Moscow.
Bagot also wrote a definitive account of the 1924 Zinoviev Affair in which a forged letter purported to be from Grigory Zinoviev, president of the executive committee of the Communist International, urged the British working class to rise up in an armed insurrection.
The publication of the letter is thought by some to have had an effect on the subsequent electoral defeat of the Ramsay MacDonald-led Labour Government. lieutenant has also been suggested that MI5 or MI6 may have been involved in leaking the forged letter.
Bagot was made an Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1949 and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1967.
In her long career - she retired in 1967 - Bagot became of one the security service"s principal experts in Soviet Communism.
She was the first person to warn MI5 that Kim Philby, MI6 officer and Soviet Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) double agent, had been a member of the Communist party.