John Starnes was destined to be part of the "greatest generation" – the men and women whose fortunes would be shaped by the Second World War. Fortune treated him well, if unexpectedly, leading him ...

John Starnes, a legendary Canadian spymaster who became the first civilian head of the RCMP’s Security Service Directorate, has died at the age of 96. Starnes was an intelligence officer during the ...

Much of John Kennett Starnes’s professional life played out in the shadows of war and international intrigue, first as a junior Second World War military intelligence officer, then as a foreign ...

A celebration of life service for John Starnes will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Crawford-Bowers Funeral Home in Killeen. Mr. Starnes died Oct. 2, 2019, in Temple.

OTTAWA — John Starnes, a legendary Canadian spymaster who became the first civilian head of the RCMP’s Security Service Directorate, has died at the age of 96. Starnes was an intelligence officer ...