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<p>started a page</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[Victor Rothschild]] was a wartime [[MI5]] officer, scientist and corporate director.<br /> <br /> Francis Beckett gives this précis of his career:<br /> ::He was a scientist of some distinction before the Second World War, and a valued MI5 officer during it (and close to it all his life). From 1958 to 1970 he was a senior executive with [[Shell]]. In 1970, the new prime minister [[Edward Heath]] made him the head of the [[Central Policy Review Staff]], a government think-tank eventually abolished by [[Margaret Thatcher]]. In 1975, at the age of 64, he finally consented to join the family firm of [[N M Rothschild and Sons]], in the role of chairman.&lt;ref&gt;Francis Beckett, [http://www.newstatesman.com/200304140040 A Perfect Spy], New Statesman, 14 April 2003.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> &lt;references/&gt;<br /> <br /> [[Category:Spooks|Rothschild, Victor]][[Category:MI5|Rothschild, Victor]]</div>

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