Richard Henry Stevens

[2] His second language was Greek and he also spoke excellent German, French and Russian but he had no specific training or experience of intelligence gathering in Europe.

In any event, the inexperienced Stevens was carrying on his person a plain-text list of SIS agents when he was abducted.

The two officers were imprisoned for over five years in Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps before their release in April 1945.

[3] Nazi propaganda portrayed Best and Stevens as the alleged masterminds of the Beer Hall attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler by Georg Elser.

Stevens retired from the Indian army as a lieutenant-colonel on the 26 February 1946, having been promoted to that rank during his captivity.