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A16 NATIONAL POST, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1999 1 'I KENNETH BENTON Wartime British spy helped feed false information to the Nazis if Kenneth Benton, who has died aged 90, was one of the last surviving intelligence officers to have been actively involved in the remarkable wartime espionage coup known as the Double Cross system. British intelligence used captured Nazi agents to feed the Germans false information in a series of operations masterminded by the so-called Twenty Committee, named after the Roman numeral XX suggested by "double-cross." Hie scheme required close coordination between MI6 stations in neutral countries, which tracked agents as they sought to enter Britain; the Security Service MI5, which captured them when they arrived and ran them back against the Germans; and the code-breakers of Bletchley Park, England, who monitored communications by the agents' Abwehr controllers in order to check that the disinformation was being accepted as genuine and to tip off MI6 and MI5 to new arrivals. Kenneth Benton served from 1941 to 1943 as the MI6 officer in charge of Double Cross operations in Madrid, identifying a total of 19 Abwehr agents, including the talkative "Treasure," who was to prove one of the most useful double agents as far as the code-breakers were concerned. Treasure was reluctant to use one word when a dozen would do, and this enabled the Twenty Committee to feed long streams of information to the Abwehr that were specifically designed to enable Bletchley Park to break into the Nazi ciphers. Mr.

Benton recalled how Treasure, a "walk-in" or Abwehr spy who volunteered her services to MI6, flounced into his offices carrying a poodle named Frisson and DEAT Benton later recalled. "At the back of my desk there was a little open bottle of colourless liquid with a brush. She dipped the brush in the liquid, passed it over the whole of the front of the letter and to my amazed eyes red writing appeared at right angles to the Czech text, in German." The message was from an MI6 agent reporting on Nazi preparations to take over the Sudetenland. Six months later, German troops marched into Austria as it was absorbed into the Third Reich. But the MI6 station continued gathering intelligence, and in August Capt.

Kendrick was arrested and taken to Gestapo headquarters at the Hotel Metropole in Vienna. "They shut him up for two days," Mr. Benton said. "I don't think they tortured him but they gave him a bad time. They showed him just how much they knew, which was really terrifying." On his release, Capt.

Kendrick was sent home, leaving Mr. Benton in charge of the Vienna station. But by now intelligence work had begun to take second place to attempts to process the hundreds of Jews who swarmed around the British Passport Control Office hoping to get visas for Palestine. "It was a dreadful, dreadful time," Mr. Benton recalled.

"They were queuing up all night The regulations were very, very limited and their stories so terrible. They had been separated from their children. They had seen loved ones go off in a Nazi convoy with the Gestapo. It just went on all day. I came home one night and just NOT DREYER, David Frederick Gerhard Peacefully at home on Monday October 25, 1999.

Leaving to Amount his wife, Eileen (Jill) married 58 years, daughter April (Barry), Victoria B.C., Son Peter (Shejlagh), Mississauga ON, Grandchildren, Christopher, Jennifer, Susan, (Chris), Benjamin and David. A Private family farewell has taken place followed by cremation. If desired, remem brances may be made to a charity of your choice. BENTON SERVED FROM 1941 TO 1943 AS THE MI6 OFFICER IN CHARGE OF DOUBLE CROSS OPERATIONS IN MADRID CLARK LAMBIE, Aileen Anne (REng.) Suddenly, on October 23, 1999, at the tender age of 30. Dearly beloved daughter of Edna THE DAILY TELEGRAPH and Andy Clark of Mississauga Kenneth Benton had a long career as a British spymaster, beginning in the Second World War.

Loving younger sister of Heather burst into tears. I wept for about an hour, I think. I had never cried VAN ARSDALE FRANCE Disneyland trainer taught workers demanded, unsuccessfully, that it be allowed past the quarantine restrictions. "She became a very useful agent," Mr. Benton recalled.

But she appears never to have forgiven him for the inevitable demise of her poodle. "She wrote a book, in French, and freely criticized some of her British acquaintances," he said. "She described me as tres Anglais, and from her that was not a compliment" Kenneth Benton was born on March 4, 1909, the fifth of six children of an eccentric Baptist minister who gave up preaching for a less than certain future as an in (Caudill) of Allen, Texas, Aileen will be loved and cherished forever by husband Brian. A host of family, friends and colleagues share in the pain of this untimely loss. They are all better people for having known her.

Aileen was intelligent, independent, humorous and caring to all those she knew. The life, intensity and love that she radiated was extraordinary. She will be missed. Visitation at the Turner Porter "Peel" Chapel, 2180 Hurontario Street, Mississauga (Hwy. 10, north of Q.E.W.), from 2-4 and 6-9 p.m.

on Wednesday, October 27. Funeral Service at 1 1 a.m. on Thursday, October 28, 1999 at Cawthra Park United Church, 1465 Leda Avenue, Mississauga. In lieu of flowers, please contribute to the Aileen Clark Lambie Scholarship Fund by calling (416) 863-6632. This scholarship will support women who have chosen to pursue studies in engineering at Ryerson University.

I ventor. Mr. Benton, unable to afford to go to university, studied French, German and Italian as an externa student of London Uni versity while working as a prep-school master. In 1937 he moved to Vienna to improve his German and taught at the Theresianum art forms pioneered by the airlines of the frozen smile and the canned answer delivered with enough spontaneity to seem unprogrammed." Terrie Richards Alden, a jazz singer who worked at Disney parks from 1986 to 1993, said she found it oppressive. "Everything about you had to be Alice in Wonderland," she said, "even if you were a garbage collector making the minimum wage." Van Arsdale France was born near Seattle and moved to San Diego with his family at the age of 12.

He studied at San Diego State University and worked in labour relations before being asked to set up the Disney employment-training program. He retired in 1978, but remained a consultant to Disney until his death. In later years, he wrote articles and pamphlets for older people, including one, The Bus and. Diary ofa Reformed Autoholic, that advocated bus travel, which he adopted after he stopped driving. Mr.

France remained active for the rest of his life. When his small size made it difficult to control the heavy surfboards of his youth, he turned to body surfing. He was also an avid "ralker" being a word he coined for his combination of running and walking. Van Arsdale France was married twice. He is survived by two daughters.

Douglas Martin, The New York Times in my life until that one time and I haven't cried since. But it just made one desperately unhappy that you could do nothing." After he and his wife returned to England in September, 1940, they were both recruited to work for Section the counter-espionage section of MI6, which handled its involvement in the Double Cross system. Mr. Benton's immediate boss in London during this period was Kim Philby, whom both Mr. Benton and his wife treated as a friend.

"We had liked and admired him and were left feeling unclean," Mr. Benton said after Mr. Philby's defection. "He had no loyalties, either to HMG, or friends, or the women he married." In mid-1944, Mr. Benton was sent to re-establish the MI6 station in Rome, arriving with the advancing British troops on the back ofa coal truck.

He returned to Madrid as head of station in his own right in 1953 and then in 1956 was posted to "Head Office," where he spent six years touring the British universities as a recruiting officer. Mr. Benton was sent to Lima in 1962 as head of station in Peru. He returned to London in 1964 as director for Latin America, a post he held until 1966. His last posting was as head of station in Rio de Janeiro.

After retiring from MI6 in 1968, Kenneth Benton pursued a successful second career as a thriller writer. His many books include Single Monstrous Act; The Red Hen Conspiracy and The Ward of Caesar. His wife, Peggy, died in 1992. He is survived by a son. The Daily Telegraph girls' school.

In Austria, he fell in love with a young woman who worked in the Van Arsdale France, who has died aged 87, wrote the manual for teaching Disneyland employees precisely how to smile. A perpetually smiling "sunny optimist," Mr. France brought a background in industrial relations to Disneyland, which opened in Anaheim, in 1955. There he spent more than a quarter-century developing training programs for what came to be called Disney University. The Disney vision involved a formula in which all staff members, not just the people who portrayed Snow White and Mickey Mouse, were told to think of themselves as characters playing to an audience.

Mr. France's basic idea was something he called "the looking-glass self," meaning that if staff members smiled, customers would, too. No hon-orifics were permitted in Disneyland. "The only Mister here is Mr. Toad," Mr.

France commanded. The vision was broadly egalitarian. "Every guest receives the VIP treatment," the manual said. "We roll out the red carpet for the Jones family from Joliet just as we would (with a few embell British legation, Peggy Lambert, a divorcee with two small sons. She introduced him to Captain Thomas Kendrick, the British passport control officer.

He ac cepted Capt Kendrick's offer of a job as his assistant, unaware that the post of passport control officer was a cover for MI 6 head of station. It was not until his first morning on the job that he learned Van Arsdale France from Palm Springs." "Cast members" were expected to know their roles and stay in character. Women were to wear scant makeup and men were to be clean-shaven. Some saw such commandments as a rather harsh form of social control; others were even more critical. In his 1968 book, The Disney Version, Richard Schickel wrote that Disney University trained people "in the modern American the truth.

A staff member handed him a letter, which he assumed to be from a visa applicant Mr. Ben VAN ORMAN, MD, FRCS (C), U.E.L., F. Lorne Dr. Van Orman was a surgeon for many years at The Queensway General Hospital and a proud member of The Janes' Surgical Society. He died surrounded by his family at The Toronto Grace Hospital on Sunday, October 24, 1999; he was 77 years old.

He leaves his loving wife Barbara (nee Doxsee) to mourn his passing; together they shared more than 55 years of marriage. Barbara and Lome met through the Boy Scout Girl Guide movement in Kirkland Lake in 1938. He will be sadly missed by his four children: Robert, Cynthia (her husband Ron Butler) of Calgary, Mark his wife Eleonora), and Lesley (her husband Erik Sultmanis). "Grandpa" will also be missed by: Meghan Jeff Butler, Kess Van Orman and Emma Sultmanis. He is survived by his sister Lorraine Knibbs (her husband Barry) of Whitby.

Lome's death will also be mourned by Barbara's family: Wayne Doxsee (Ruth) and Bob Doxsee of Kirkland Lake. A memorial service in celebration of Dr. Van Orman 's life will be held at The Simple Alternative, ton told his colleague that the letter was in Czech, a language he could not understand. "She said: 'Oh, I'm sorry; how stupid; hang on a Mr. ishments) for the Eisenhowers HOYT AXTON Folksy singer wrote hits for artists from Elvis Presley to Steppenwolf Mississauga, 1535 South Gateway Road Dixie Road- 2 traffic lights South of Eglinton (905) 602-1580 on Oct.

27 at 3:00 p.m. A fitting tribute to his life would be a donation to Scouts Canada Central Escarpment Region, 1921 Dundas St. Mississauga, ON L5K 1 R2 or The Salvation Army, Suite 101 -1645 Warden Toronto, ON M1R5B3. ed the lines "No, no, no, no, I don't sniff it no more. I'm tired of waking up on the floor." But in 1997, police found marijuana at Mr.

Axton's home. He claimed it relieved some of the pain and anxiety he suffered after a stroke the previous year. He was fined and given a three-year deferred sentence for marijuana possession. A large man, Mr. Axton as an actor specialized in playing good old boys on television and in films, including Gremlins and 77) Black Stallion.

Mr. Axton suffered a heart attack two weeks ago and another during surgery. He had never fully recovered from the stroke in 1996 and used a wheelchair much of the time. He is survived by his wife, Deborah Hawkins, and five children. The Associated Press cluded Boney Fingers your fingers to the bone, what do you get? Boney and When the Morning Comes.

Hoyt Axton was born in Duncan, and started out singing folk songs in the clubs of San Francisco in 1958. In 1963, a song he co-wrote, Greenback Dollar, was a hit for the Kingston Trio. He wrote hits for Starr No No Song) and Steppenwolf (The Pusher). Others who performed his songs included Joan Baez, Way-Ion Jennings, John Denver and Linda Ronstadt. Steppenwolf 's The Pusher and Snowblind Friend were rare forays into a more serious theme.

The Pusher was a powerful, passionate song that condemned drug sellers, while Snowblind Friend was about a junkie. And 1975's No No Song includ it Hoyt Axton, who has died aged 61, was a folksy baritone, songwriter and actor who wrote the Three Dog Night hit Joy to the World, as well as songs that were performed by artists from Elvis Presley to Ringo Starr. Hoyt Axton was literally born to songwriting. His mother, Mae Boren Axton, was a co-author of Elvis Presley's Heartbreak Hotel. In 1971, Three Dog Night's recording of his novelty song Joy to the World was a was on top of the charts for six straight weeks, making it the biggest hit of the year.

Mr. Axton had pitched the song to group members when he was their opening act in 1969. He also wrote Never Been to Spain for the band, a song also recorded by Presley. Mr. Axton's own singing hits in To Place a Death Notice wMEMORIAM on this page, please call I-80O-668-5617 (toll free) or Fax (416) 386-2663 From Toronto, call (416) 386-2676 From Vancouver, call (604) 739-8111, est.

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