He’s a military man in charge of getting scientific geniuses out of Germany before the Americans and Russians get to them.
“It was a race amongst the allies to get the most acute scientific minds to come over to their specific countries and divulge their secrets. He is quite a clever strategist because he understands that if they don’t get this information from the allies, the military secrets, then the possibility for a third world war remains very palpable. In a modern comparison, he’s sort of M to Jim Sturgess’ Bond if you like.” – Glenister
Brigadier Wainwright (portrayed by Robert Glenister) is a character in Close to the Enemy. He is a brigadier at T-Force. He assigned Captain Ferguson the task of making Dieter start working for the British government and gave him 6 days for it.