Jack Morton

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Jack Morton was a senior MI5 officer who succeeded Alex Kellar as head of Security Intelligence Far East before becoming Director of Intelligence im Malaya where he advised Sir Gerald Templer on re-organising the local Special Branch.[1]

According to Stephen Dorril, who refers to him as 'Jack Moreton', Morton came out of retirement in 1973 to re-organise the RUC Special Branch and to set up an MI5/Army database on terrorists.[2]

Notes

  1. Christopher Andrew, Defence of the Realm, The Authorized History of MI5, Allen Lane, 2009, p.450.
  2. Christopher Andrew, Defence of the Realm, The Authorized History of MI5, Allen Lane, 2009, p.450.