SECRET INTELLIGENCE SERVICE DOSSIER
INTELLIGENCE PROFILE
Code Name: Fire
File Name: Kingdom, John United
Rank: Sergeant
Serial Number: 019-97-4484
Department: D-6 (Wetworks)
Classification: Sol/Fix
Primary Military Specialty: Infantry
Secondary Military Specialty: Demolitions
Nationality: British
Place of Birth: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Date of Birth: 15/08/1923
Father: Howard P. Kingdom (deceased)
Mother: Sonia Kingdom (née Greene)
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 175lbs
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Brown
Service History:
Recruited into Army 09/1939
Army basic training 1939-40
Recruited into SOE 05/1940
SOE training 1940-41
Assigned Active Duty 08/1941
SOE agent France 1941-44
SOE agent Germany 1944-45
Awarded Distinguished Conduct Medal 1945
Peacetime Demobilisation 1945-47
Recruited into SIS 28/04/1947
SIS D-6 specialist training 1947-48
Assigned Overseas Section 07/1948
SIS agent Berlin 1948-53
SIS agent Moscow 1953
Inactive (London) 1953-54
SIS agent French North Africa 1954-55
SIS agent Egypt 1955-56
Inactive (London) 1956-57
SIS agent Switzerland 1957
SIS agent South East Asia 1957-62
Medical Leave (Sarratt) 1962-63
SIS agent Paris 1963-64
Inactive (London) 1964-
Agent Review:
Kingdom joined the army at the outbreak of the Second World War, following in the footsteps of his father, RSM Howard Kingdom. When the father was killed fighting in France in May 1940, the Special Operations Executive (SOE) quickly recruited the son, forging his grief into a powerful weapon against the Nazis. Kingdom was active in France behind enemy lines from August 1941 until the liberation in '44, whereupon he moved ahead of the main Allied forces into Germany itself, making it almost to Berlin itself before the war ended. Kingdom was by this time an expert in sabotage and guerrilla warfare, and spoke French and German like the natives.
After the war ended, though, he found his skills in little demand. Kingdom was given the DCM and a hearty handshake and then promptly Demobbed from the army.
He remained unemployed for two years, which we must assume he spent in London - there are no records of Kingdom during this time. In April 1947 the Cold War was beginning to get serious, and we in the Secret Intelligence Service were looking for men with good knowledge of what had become East Germany, as well as certain useful skills. John Kingdom fitted that bill pretty well, so he was recruited and became Agent Fire.
After undergoing the usual preliminary psych evaluation, Fire was assigned to the Wetworks Department, since it was closest in nature to the work he was already trained to do by SOE, minimising the time required before he could be sent into the field.
Fire was then sent to Berlin, which he operated out of from July '48 until '53, when the Iron Bastard (or Stalin, if you prefer) popped it and gave us the ideal opportunity to do a bit of pruning in Moscow. Fire was one of the five agents that burned their cover to seize the day - like the others, he could not go back to his previous after that. See File: 'Operation Foxtrot-5' for further details.
Fire was next used as Backup in the French North Africa theatre, due to his command of French and his availability at the time. He was moved into Egypt in '55, but when Suez blew up in '56 he was removed along with over a dozen other agents, right before things got nasty.
In '57 Fire was providing Backup for Agent Snake, running operatives through Switzerland, until the outfit was blown and Snake ducked out, trying to leave Fire to face the music alone. Fire turned up in London a week after their line went dead, with the unconscious Snake trussed up in the boot of his car. Apparently Fire caught up to him in Marseilles, trying to charter a boat to Marrakech.
This impressed Control enough to send Fire to South East Asia solo, with a roving brief to help support the networks wherever he could. He spent time in Hong Kong, Bangkok, Singapore, Saigon, Tokyo, Manila, Djakarta, Seoul and Taiwan, enjoying some noticeable successes until 1962, when Fire ceased reporting in and had terminated several opposition runners before he was found and brought back to our Sarratt jail to explain himself. It turned out Fire had discovered he was being set up to take the fall for the double Leo, who had access to his methods of report and who had been using the various runners Fire had killed. Leo disappeared the day before Fire was taken into our custody.
The unorthodox behaviour Fire had exhibited led directly to his being given some light work in Paris for a bit, keeping an eye on some of the supposedly shiftier activities of GIGN and the like.
Having served his time, he was recalled last year to await an assignment more suited to his talents.