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	'''Sir William George Eden Wiseman, 10th Baronet''' {{post-nominals\|country=GBR\|CB}} (1 February 1885 – 17 June 1962)<ref name=":0">{{Cite web\|title=Wiseman, Sir William George Eden, (1 Feb. 1885–17 June 1962), Chairman of the Committee in the United States of the Dollar Exports Council\|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-50129\|access-date=2021-06-13\|website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO\|year=2007\|language=en\|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u50129\|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1}}</ref> was a ~~[[United Kingdom\|~~British]] intelligence agent and banker. He was a general partner at American investment bank [[Kuhn, Loeb & Co.]] from 1929 till 1960.		'''Sir William George Eden Wiseman, 10th Baronet''' {{post-nominals\|country=GBR\|CB}} (1 February 1885 – 17 June 1962)<ref name=":0">{{Cite web\|title=Wiseman, Sir William George Eden, (1 Feb. 1885–17 June 1962), Chairman of the Committee in the United States of the Dollar Exports Council\|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-50129\|access-date=2021-06-13\|website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO\|year=2007\|language=en\|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u50129\|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1}}</ref> was a British intelligence agent and banker. He was a general partner at American investment bank [[Kuhn, Loeb & Co.]] from 1929 till 1960.

	== Life ==		== Life ==

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'''Sir William George Eden Wiseman, 10th Baronet''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CB}} (1 February 1885 – 17 June 1962)<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Wiseman, Sir William George Eden, (1 Feb. 1885–17 June 1962), Chairman of the Committee in the United States of the Dollar Exports Council|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-50129|access-date=2021-06-13|website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO|year=2007|language=en|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u50129|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1}}</ref> was a [[United Kingdom|British]] intelligence agent and banker. He was a general partner at American investment bank [[Kuhn, Loeb & Co.]] from 1929 till 1960.

== Life ==
The grandson of [[Sir William Wiseman, 8th Baronet]], a British naval officer, he was educated at [[Winchester College]] and [[Jesus College, Cambridge]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite news|date=18 June 1962|title=Sir William Wiseman|page=14|work=[[The Times]]|issue=55420}}</ref> He was appointed a [[second lieutenant]] in the [[Royal Garrison Artillery|Royal Cardigan Artillery Militia]] on 30 April 1902.<ref>{{London Gazette| issue=27429 |page=2864 |date=29 April 1902}}</ref>

As a businessman, before the outbreak of the [[World War I|First World War]] 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 City|New York]], 'Section V'.<ref name=spence>{{cite journal |journal=Intelligence and National Security |title=Englishmen in New York: The SIS American Station, 1915–21 |author=Richard Spence |date= September 2004 |volume=19 |issue=3 |pages=511–537
|doi=10.1080/0268452042000316269|s2cid=154992373 }}</ref> As the head of the British intelligence mission in the United States, Wiseman was extensively involved in the counter-intelligence against the [[Ghadar conspiracy|Indian seditionists]] and was ultimately responsible for leaking to [[New York City Police Department|New York Police]], bypassing diplomatic channels, the details of a bomb plot that led to the uncovering of the [[Hindu Conspiracy]].<ref name=":1" />

Wiseman 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]]. He met with Wilson on a regular basis and on one notable occasion in August 1918 spent a week's vacation with the President and House.<ref>The Secret History of MI6; 1909-1949, Keith Jeffery, Penguin, 2010, Kindle Edition location 2153</ref> Wiseman was also a mentor to spy chief [[William Stephenson]].<ref name=":1" /> He was made a Companion of the [[Order of the Bath]], In recognition of services in connection with the War, in the King's [[1918 Birthday Honours]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=30723 |date= 3 June 1918|page=6528 |supp=y}}</ref>

After the war, Wiseman was a participant in the [[Paris Peace Conference, 1919|1919 Paris Peace Conference]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> He remained in the U.S. as an employee of Kuhn Loeb, becoming a partner in 1929.

==References==
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==See alsol==
* [[Foreign policy of the Woodrow Wilson administration]]

==Further reading==
* Fowler, W.B. ''British-American Relations 1917–1918. The Role of Sir William Wiseman'' (Princeton University Press, 1969). [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2147792 online review] also [https://www.proquest.com/openview/d3a634826c2b6912bd9ea51498482b3a/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y dissertation version]

==External links==
*Sir William Wiseman papers (MS 666). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library. [http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0666]
*[[doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/67496|Sir William George Eden Wiseman, 10th Bt.]] entry in the ''[[Dictionary of National Biography|Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]''

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