John Cradock
J. Cradock is listed as an Under Secretary (liaison staff) at the Northern Ireland Office in the Civil Service Yearbook for 1976, a post previously held by MI5 officer Denis Payne.[1] The name appears as J.A. Cradock in the otherwise identical 1977 entry.[2]
According to David Leigh:
- MI5 fought - and beat - MI6 for control of Intelligence in Northern Ireland under a succession of 'DCI's on two-year tours to this new, uninhibited career-posting - Ian Cameron, Jack Credock, John Parker.[3]
