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[[Jim Patrick]] was an [[MI5]] officer.

Patrick was described by [[Peter Wright]] as a 'one-eyed Gurkha officer who worked as an interrogator for D3' [[Peter Wright]] headed [[MI5 D Branch 1953-68|D3 section]] in the 1960s, and together with Patrick he interrogated a half-Polish MI5 officer who confessed to spying but immediately retracted the confession as a joke. This officer, who had succeeded [[Michael Hanley]] as head of [[MI5]]'s Polish section and had himself interrogated [[Michael Goleniewski]], was sacked from MI5 as a result.<ref>Peter Wright, Spycatcher, Viking, 1987, pp.321-322.</ref>

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 [[Jim Patrick]] was an [[MI5]] officer.
-Patrick was described by [[Peter Wright]] as a 'one-eyed Gurkha officer who worked as an interrogator for D3'. Wright headed [[MI5 D Branch 1953-68|D3 section]] in the 1960s, and together with Patrick he interrogated a half-Polish MI5 officer who confessed to spying but immediately retracted the confession as a joke. This officer, who had succeeded [[Michael Hanley]] as head of [[MI5]]'s Polish section and had himself interrogated [[Michael Goleniewski]], was sacked from MI5 as a result.<ref>Peter Wright, Spycatcher, Viking, 1987, pp.321-322.</ref>
+Patrick was described by [[Peter Wright]] as a 'one-eyed Gurkha officer who worked as an interrogator for D3'. Wright headed [[MI5 D Branch 1953-68|D3 section]] in the 1960s.<ref>Peter Wright, Spycatcher, Viking, 1987, pp.321-322.</ref>
 In the early 1970s, Patrick was stationed at the British High Commission, in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He was appointed by the Sri Lankan Government as a security expert to train their Special Branch.<ref>Phil Miller, [http://www.opendemocracy.net/opensecurity/phil-miller/mi5-in-ceylon-untold-story MI5 in Ceylon - the untold story], ''OpenDemocracy'', 5 November 2013.</ref>

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	Patrick was described by [[Peter Wright]] as a 'one-eyed Gurkha officer who worked as an interrogator for D3'. Wright headed [[MI5 D Branch 1953-68\|D3 section]] in the 1960s, and together with Patrick he interrogated a half-Polish MI5 officer who confessed to spying but immediately retracted the confession as a joke. This officer, who had succeeded [[Michael Hanley]] as head of [[MI5]]'s Polish section and had himself interrogated [[Michael Goleniewski]], was sacked from MI5 as a result.<ref>Peter Wright, Spycatcher, Viking, 1987, pp.321-322.</ref>		Patrick was described by [[Peter Wright]] as a 'one-eyed Gurkha officer who worked as an interrogator for D3'. Wright headed [[MI5 D Branch 1953-68\|D3 section]] in the 1960s, and together with Patrick he interrogated a half-Polish MI5 officer who confessed to spying but immediately retracted the confession as a joke. This officer, who had succeeded [[Michael Hanley]] as head of [[MI5]]'s Polish section and had himself interrogated [[Michael Goleniewski]], was sacked from MI5 as a result.<ref>Peter Wright, Spycatcher, Viking, 1987, pp.321-322.</ref>
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		+	In the early 1970s, Patrick was stationed at the British High Commission, in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He was appointed by the Sri Lankan Government as a security expert to train their Special Branch.<ref>Phil Miller, [http://www.opendemocracy.net/opensecurity/phil-miller/mi5-in-ceylon-untold-story MI5 in Ceylon - the untold story], ''OpenDemocracy'', 5 November 2013.</ref>

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