Patrick Walker
Sir Patrick Walker was the head of the Security Service MI5 from 1987 to 1992.[1]
Walker is an Oxford graduate.[2] He joined the Security Service in 1963 following a period of service in the pre-independence government of Uganda.[3]
FX Director
Walker became Director FX Branch in 1984.[2]
Sir Desmond de Silva's Pat Finucane Review records that in February 1987, the head of the Force Research Unit, A/05 recorded that that officer G/02, the head of MI5's Northern Ireland agent-handling section, told him that "Patrick Walker, the then Head of Counter-Terrorism at the Security Service, was very angry about the FRU's actions" in re-recruiting Brian Nelson. This may have reflected MI5's own ambitions to recruit Nelson.[4]
Deputy Director-General
According to The Times, Walker served as Deputy Director General Operations before heading the service, and was succeeded in that post by Julian Faux in 1988.[5]
External resources
- Richard Norton-Taylor and Nick Hopkins, Security service told RUC that it could put spying on terrorists ahead of solving crime, The Guardian, 14 June 2001.
Notes
- ↑ Former Directors General, MI5, accessed 30 June 2009.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Christopher Andrew, Defence of the Realm, The Authorized History of MI5, Allen Lane, 2009, p.560.
- ↑ Former Directors General, MI5, accessed 30 June 2009.
- ↑ Sir Desmond de Silva, Volume 1 - Chapter 6: The recruitment of Brian Nelson, Pat Finucane Review, 12 December 2012.
- ↑ Julian Faux, CB, MI5 officer, died of cancer on July 6 aged 62. He was born on July 28, 1935, The Times, 23 July 1998.
