Christopher Mayhew

Christopher Paget Mayhew (12 June 1915 - 7 January 1997) was a politician, broadcaster and writer. During his time at the Foreign Office, he supervised the creation the Information Research Department.

In his autobiography Denis Healey writes:

Chris Mayhew was one of the few socialists at Oxford in my time who ever joined the Communist Party. He had been in the clandestine unit, Phantom, during the war, with Norman Reddaway, who became his private secretary and later head of the Foreign Office's so called Research Information Department...Two decades later he was my Navy Minister, and resigned over my decision to phase out the aircraft carriers, afterwards leaving the Labour Party and becoming a Liberal.