The Strange Disappearance of Screenwriter Ian Mackintosh

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British screenwriter, Ian Mackintosh’s plane went missing on July 7, 1979,  nineteen days before his thirty-ninth birthday, over the Gulf of Alaska.  What happened still remains a mystery. Join us as we tell the story of Lieutenant Commander Hamish Ian Mackintosh, a British Royal Navy officer, a writer of thriller novels, and a screenwriter for British television.

Ian’s series, THE SANDBAGGERS was groundbreaking.  The New York Times said "the best spy series in television history."   Ian MacKintosh was among the first writers to present espionage realistically and as a sordid series of political struggles, double-crosses, and personality clashes.


If you would like to read more about Ian Mackintosh I highly recommend The Life and Mysterious death of Ian Mackintosh by Robert G. Folsom

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