Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Daphne Margaret Sybil Dsire Park, Baroness Park of Monmouth CMG, OBE, FRSA (1 September 1921 24 March 2010) was a British diplomat. During her career she was also a clandestine senior controller in MI6 in Hanoi, Moscow, the Congo, and Zambia. The daughter of John Alexander and Doreen Gwynneth Park, she was educated at Rosa Bassett School in Streatham and at Somerville College, Oxford, where she graduated with a B.A. in modern languages in 1943. She was further educated at Newnham College, Cambridge, where she received a Certificate of Competent Knowledge in Russian in 1952. Park served in the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry from 1943 to 1948 and in the Allied Commission for Austria from 1946 to 1948. Park had a brother, David. In 1948, she was attached to the Foreign Office, while actually working for the Secret Intelligence Service (aka SIS/MI6), becoming Third Secretary of the United Kingdom's delegation to NATO in 1952. From 1954 to 1956, she was Second Secretary of the British Embassy of Moscow, from 1959 to 1961, Consul and First Secretary to Leopoldville, from 1964 to 1967 High Commissioner to Lusaka and from 1969 to 1970 Consul-General to Hanoi. In 1972 she was named as Charg d'Affaires of the British Embassy of Ulan Bator for several months. From 1973 to '79 she served in the Foreign Office. In 1960, Park was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). In 1971 a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG). On 27 February 1990, she was created a life peer Baroness Park of Monmouth, of Broadway in the County of Hereford and Worcester, and served as SIS's semi-official spokesperson in the House of Lords. She was an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College, and a Fellow of Chatham House (RIIA) and o... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=9501383