Question: In what capacity did British Army intelligence officer Derek Knee serve in World War II to the Field Marshall nicknamed "Monty" and the "Spartan General"?
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After becoming obsolete in the army co-operation role, the aircraft's exceptional short-field performance enabled clandestine missions using small, unprepared airstrips behind enemy lines to place or recover agents, particularly in occupied France with the help of the French Resistance.  British army air co-operation aircraft were named after mythical or historical military leaders; in this case the Spartan general Lysander was chosen. The Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) was a World War II and early Cold War intelligence agency within the United States Army.  Its role was taken over by the U.S. Army Intelligence Corps in 1961 and, in 1967, by the U.S. Army Intelligence Agency.  Its functions are now performed by the United States Army Intelligence and Security Command and by counterintelligence agents assigned to Army tactical units.  The National Counter Intelligence Corps Association (NCICA), a veterans' association, was established in the years immediately following World War II by Military Intelligence agents who had served in every area of military and domestic operations.  The organization meets annually.  Its newsletter, the "Golden Sphinx", is published quarterly. Colonel Claude Hugh Toye MBE (29 March 1917- 15 April 2012) was a British Army intelligence officer who worked in India and Burma during World War II.  Working in the Combined Services Directorate of Intelligence, Toye was tasked with interrogation of captured troops of the Japanese army and the Indian National Army.  Toye's work recording the history of the INA,"The Springing Tiger" published in 1959, was one of the first authoritative histories on the army penned by a western scholar.  After the war Toye worked with the British army in South-east Asia.  He worked in various capacities in Burma, Laos and Hong Kong and Bangkok in between short spells in Europe.  He earned a PhD from Nuffield College Oxford in late 1960s.  Toye retired from the army in 1972. Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, ( ; 17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976), nicknamed "Monty" and the "Spartan General", was a senior British Army officer who fought in both the First World War and the Second World War.
Answer: interpreter and translator