Guy Liddell
Guy Liddell was a senior MI5 officer.
In 1933, Liddell accompanied Frank Foley, the Berlin station chief of MI6, on a liaison visit to Nazi Germany.[1]
In the post-war period, Liddell was seconded to deal with security for the Atomic Energy Authority.[2]
Liddell was the internal candidate to head MI5 at the retirement of Sir David Petrie in 1945, but was passed over by Clement Attlee in favour of Percy Sillitoe.[3] Along with Roger Hollis and Dick White, Liddell was said to be among the officers who tried to undermine Sillitoe, a former Chief Constable of Kent.[4]
John Costello's 1988 Mask of Treachery speculated that Liddell was the so-called Fifth Man, in a Soviet Spy Ring, later named by Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky as John Cairncross.[5]
External resources
- NameBase LIDDELL GUY MAYNARD
Notes
- ↑ Francis Stonor Saunders, Stuck on the Flypaper, London Review of Books, 9 April 2015.
- ↑ David Leigh, The Wilson Plot, Mandarin, 1989, p.5.
- ↑ David Leigh, The Wilson Plot, Mandarin, 1989, p.22.
- ↑ David Leigh, The Wilson Plot, Mandarin, 1989, p.23.
- ↑ David Wise, Molehunt: How the Search for a Phantom Traitor Shattered the CIA, Avon Books, 1992, p.112.
