Sir William George Eden Wiseman, 10th Baronet (1 February 1885 – 17 June 1962) was a British intelligence agent and banker. He was a general partner at American investment bank Kuhn, Loeb & Co. from 1929 till 1960.
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The grandson of Sir William Wiseman, 8th Baronet, a British naval officer, he received his education at Winchester College and Jesus College, Cambridge. As a businessman before the outbreak of World War I he was Chairman in London of Hendens Trust. From 1914 he served as a Lieutenant Colonel with the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry but, following injury, transferred to military intelligence. He was sent by Secret Intelligence Service director, Mansfield Smith-Cumming, to establish the agency's office in New York, 'Section V'.[1] As the head of the British intelligence mission in the United States, Wiseman was extensively involved in the counter-intelligence against the Indian sedetionists and was ultimately responsible for leaking to New York Police, bypassing diplomatic channels, the details of a bomb plot that led to the uncovering of the Hindu Conspiracy.
He acted as a liaison between Woodrow Wilson and the British government. He and his associate General Julius Klein were closely associated with Special Advisor to Wilson Colonel Edward M. House. Wiseman was also a mentor to spy chief William Stephenson.[2] After the war, was a participant in the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. He remained in the U.S. as an employee of Kuhn Loeb, becoming a partner in 1929.
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| Preceded by William Wiseman |
Baronet (of Canfield Hall) 1893–1962 |
Succeeded by John William Wiseman |