PASSINGS

Anthony Courtney; British Intelligence Chief

Anthony Courtney, 79, a former intelligence chief and Conservative member of Parliament whose political career was ruined when the KGB released photographs of him with a woman tour guide in a Moscow hotel. Courtney, a retired naval commander, was deputy head of the British Naval Mission in Moscow in 1941-42. He headed the Soviet section of British Naval Intelligence from 1946 to 1948 and served in Germany as a senior intelligence officer until 1951. He retired from the Navy in 1953 and was elected to the House of Commons in 1959. There he launched a campaign against the Soviets and their Eastern Bloc allies, alleging that they used diplomatic cover for espionage. In August, 1965, the KGB released compromising photographs of him and Zina Volkova, a guide with Soviet Intourist. In the ensuing scandal, Courtney lost his House of Commons seat in the 1966 general election. In London on Sunday of unannounced causes.