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==External Resources==
 
==External Resources==
 
*Namebase [http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb01?Na=Franks+Arthur+Temple Franks Arthur Temple (Dickie)]
 
*Namebase [http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb01?Na=Franks+Arthur+Temple Franks Arthur Temple (Dickie)]
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===Obituaries===
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*[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3227310/Sir-Dick-Franks.html Sir Dick Franks], telegraph.co.uk, 20 October 2008.
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*[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4973918.ece Sir Dick Franks: Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service],  The Times, 20 October 2008.
  
 
==Notes==
 
==Notes==

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Sir Arthur Temple Franks (known as Dick Franks) was Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) from 1978 to 1981.[1]

A former Special Operations Executive officer, Franks joined MI6 in 1949. He was seconded to the British Middle East Office as part of the preparations for the 1953 Iranian coup.[2] Franks headed the MI6 station in the country following the restoration of relations in December.[3]

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  1. Sir Dick Franks, telegraph.co.uk, 20 October 2008.
  2. Stephen Dorril, MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Touchstone, 2002, p.577.
  3. Stephen Dorril, MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Touchstone, 2002, p.596.