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==Organisation==
 
==Organisation==
 
===Directors===
 
===Directors===
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*[[Graham Mitchell]]<ref>Richard Norton-Taylor, OBITUARY: SPYCATCHER GENERAL; Sir Martin Furnival Jones, The Guardian, 6 March 1997.</ref>
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*[[Graham Mitchell]]<ref>Richard Norton-Taylor, OBITUARY: SPYCATCHER GENERAL; Sir Martin Furnival Jones, The Guardian, 6 March 1997.</ref> c.1956.<ref>Christopher Andrew, Defence of the Realm, The Authorized History of MI5, Allen Lane, 2009, p.433.</ref>
 
*[[Martin Furnival Jones]]<ref>Richard Norton-Taylor, OBITUARY: SPYCATCHER GENERAL; Sir Martin Furnival Jones, The Guardian, 6 March 1997.</ref>
 
*[[Martin Furnival Jones]]<ref>Richard Norton-Taylor, OBITUARY: SPYCATCHER GENERAL; Sir Martin Furnival Jones, The Guardian, 6 March 1997.</ref>
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*[[Malcolm Cumming]]. c.1962.<ref>Michael Evans, The meeting that nailed Kim Philby / Allegations over 'fifth man' in Soviet spy scandals, 5 December 1986.</ref>
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*[[A.M. MacDonald]] c.1966.<ref>Christopher Andrew, Defence of the Realm, The Authorized History of MI5, Allen Lane, 2009, p.513</ref>
 
*[[Michael Hanley]] - 1968<ref>Peter Wright, Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of Senior Intelligence Officer, Viking, 1987, pp.332-334.</ref>
 
*[[Michael Hanley]] - 1968<ref>Peter Wright, Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of Senior Intelligence Officer, Viking, 1987, pp.332-334.</ref>
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===Officers===
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===D1===
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*[[J.C. Robertson]], c.1955.<ref>Christopher Andrew, Defence of the Realm, The Authorized History of MI5, Allen Lane, 2009, p.432.</ref>
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*[[Arthur Martin]], section head c.1962.<ref>Michael Evans, The meeting that nailed Kim Philby / Allegations over 'fifth man' in Soviet spy scandals, 5 December 1986.</ref>
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*[[Harold Doyne-Ditmas]]<ref> David Leigh, The Wilson Plot, Mandarin, 1989, p.101.</ref>
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*[[C.P.C de Wesselow]] - D1a, c.1955.<ref>Christopher Andrew, Defence of the Realm, The Authorized History of MI5, Allen Lane, 2009, p.431.</ref>
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===D3===
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Research section.
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*[[Peter Wright]], section head, from January 1964.<ref>David Leigh, The Wilson Plot, Mandarin, 1989, p.101.</ref>
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*[[Jim Patrick]].<ref>Peter Wright, Spycatcher, Viking, 1987, pp.321-322.</ref>
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===Miscellaneous Officers===
 
*[[John Day]]<ref>GREAT BRITAIN: MI5 Indirectly Supports Overview, Intelligence Newsletter, 15 April 1993.</ref>
 
*[[John Day]]<ref>GREAT BRITAIN: MI5 Indirectly Supports Overview, Intelligence Newsletter, 15 April 1993.</ref>
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*[[Ronald Symonds]]
  
 
==Notes==
 
==Notes==

Latest revision as of 21:46, 14 August 2014

For the Modern D Branch see MI5 D Branch

In Dick White's 1953 re-organisation of the Security Service, D Branch became the division responsible for counter-espionage.[1]

In 1968, Michael Hanley was appointed head of D Branch, and carried out a re-organisation which led to its replacement with MI5 K Branch.[2]

Organisation

Directors

D1

D3

Research section.

Miscellaneous Officers

Notes

  1. ↑ Christopher Andrew, Defence of the Realm, The Authorized History of MI5, Allen Lane, 2009, p.327.
  2. ↑ Peter Wright, Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of Senior Intelligence Officer, Viking, 1987, pp.332-334.
  3. ↑ Richard Norton-Taylor, OBITUARY: SPYCATCHER GENERAL; Sir Martin Furnival Jones, The Guardian, 6 March 1997.
  4. ↑ Christopher Andrew, Defence of the Realm, The Authorized History of MI5, Allen Lane, 2009, p.433.
  5. ↑ Richard Norton-Taylor, OBITUARY: SPYCATCHER GENERAL; Sir Martin Furnival Jones, The Guardian, 6 March 1997.
  6. ↑ Michael Evans, The meeting that nailed Kim Philby / Allegations over 'fifth man' in Soviet spy scandals, 5 December 1986.
  7. ↑ Christopher Andrew, Defence of the Realm, The Authorized History of MI5, Allen Lane, 2009, p.513
  8. ↑ Peter Wright, Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of Senior Intelligence Officer, Viking, 1987, pp.332-334.
  9. ↑ Christopher Andrew, Defence of the Realm, The Authorized History of MI5, Allen Lane, 2009, p.432.
  10. ↑ Michael Evans, The meeting that nailed Kim Philby / Allegations over 'fifth man' in Soviet spy scandals, 5 December 1986.
  11. ↑ David Leigh, The Wilson Plot, Mandarin, 1989, p.101.
  12. ↑ Christopher Andrew, Defence of the Realm, The Authorized History of MI5, Allen Lane, 2009, p.431.
  13. ↑ David Leigh, The Wilson Plot, Mandarin, 1989, p.101.
  14. ↑ Peter Wright, Spycatcher, Viking, 1987, pp.321-322.
  15. ↑ GREAT BRITAIN: MI5 Indirectly Supports Overview, Intelligence Newsletter, 15 April 1993.
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