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| − | Evans was appointed as G9, head of Middle Eastern counter-terrorism within [[MI5]]'s [[G Branch]] in the autumn of 1998.<ref>Christopher, Andrew, The Defence of the Realm, Allen Lane, 2009, p.806.</ref> | + | Evans was appointed as G9, head of Middle Eastern counter-terrorism within [[MI5]]'s [[MI5 G Branch|G Branch]] in the autumn of 1998.<ref>Christopher, Andrew, The Defence of the Realm, Allen Lane, 2009, p.806.</ref> |
| − | + | He was appointed head of G Branch 10 days before 9/11 in September 2001.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6575461.stm MI5 deputy due to start top post], BBC News, 20 April 2007.</ref> | |
==Deputy Director-General== | ==Deputy Director-General== | ||
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Jonathan Evans is the Director General of MI5 and is the sixteenth person to have held that post since it was created in 1909.
According to the MI5 website:
- Jonathan graduated from Bristol University, where he gained a degree in Classical Studies. On joining the Security Service in 1980 he worked on counter-espionage investigations, before moving in 1985 to protective security policy, advising departmental security officers on the protection of classified information. Jonathan then worked on implementing policy changes as part of Sir Anthony Duff's modernisation of the Service.
- Since then, Jonathan's main focus has been counter terrorism, both international and domestic. Various postings in Irish-related counter terrorism during the late 1980s and 1990s were interspersed with a spell as head of the Security Service's secretariat, and also two years attached to the Home Office. During this secondment, Jonathan was closely involved in the development and implementation of VIP security policy.[1]
H Branch
According to official MI5 historian Christopher Andrew, Evans was serving in H Branch as H1B/1, when Duff's successor Sir Patrick Walker ordered his superior H1/0 to carry out a strategic review of the service in February 1990. Evans recalled a 'stormy' discussion of H1B/1's findings by the MI5 Management Board, where the service's legal advisor David Bickford clashed with Walker.[2]
G Branch
Evans was appointed as G9, head of Middle Eastern counter-terrorism within MI5's G Branch in the autumn of 1998.[3]
He was appointed head of G Branch 10 days before 9/11 in September 2001.[4]
Deputy Director-General
Evans became Deputy Director General of the Security Service in February 2005.[5]
Director General
Evans succeeded Eliza Manningham-Buller as Director General of MI5 in April 2007.[6] Evans gave a speech to the Society of Editors in Manchester in November 2007. [7]
Notes
- ↑ Director General, MI5, accessed 26 October 2009.
- ↑ Christopher, Andrew, The Defence of the Realm, Allen Lane, 2009, pp.779-780.
- ↑ Christopher, Andrew, The Defence of the Realm, Allen Lane, 2009, p.806.
- ↑ MI5 deputy due to start top post, BBC News, 20 April 2007.
- ↑ Christopher, Andrew, The Defence of the Realm, Allen Lane, 2009, p.821.
- ↑ Christopher, Andrew, The Defence of the Realm, Allen Lane, 2009, p.826.
- ↑ Full text of MI5 Director-General's speech, telegraph.co.uk, 7 November 2007.
