Adam Bayne was born in Berlin, Germany in 1897, where his mother was the personal secretary to the British Ambassador to Germany. From the age of five until he was eleven, he went to school in Munich, and spoke perfect German with a Bavarian accent. In 1909 the family moved back to England, and Adam attended Westminster School, then he studied German Literature at Trinity College, Cambridge Univer
sity. While at Cambridge he was recruited by Sir Claude Dansey (Uncle Claude) into the British Secret Service Bureau, which specialised in covert overseas operations, which later became MI6. Uncle Claude arranged for Adam to attend Munich University in 1919, assigned to study under Professor Karl Haushofer. Adam spent twenty-two years undercover in Germany, and narrowly escaped ex*****on after becoming subject to Hitler’s rage after the Hess flight fiasco. Adam married his long-time partner Helene Hanfstaengl in 1946, and completed various MI6 assignments until his retirement to New York in 1965. Helen passed away in 1973, and Adam moved into his parent’s home in Tunbridge Wells where he died peacefully at the age of eighty-seven in 1984.
