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Sir [[John Jones]] was head of the British [[Security Service]] (MI5) from 1981 to 1985.<ref>[http://www.mi5.gov.uk/output/former-dgs.html Former Directors General], MI5, accessed 30 June 2009.</ref> | Sir [[John Jones]] was head of the British [[Security Service]] (MI5) from 1981 to 1985.<ref>[http://www.mi5.gov.uk/output/former-dgs.html Former Directors General], MI5, accessed 30 June 2009.</ref> | ||
| − | Jones served as an officer in the Royal Artillery and a civil servant in pre-independence Sudan before joining the Security Service in 1955. He became Deputy Director General in 1976 | + | Jones served as an officer in the Royal Artillery and a civil servant in pre-independence Sudan before joining the Security Service in 1955.<ref>[http://www.mi5.gov.uk/output/former-dgs.html Former Directors General], MI5, accessed 30 June 2009.</ref> |
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| + | Jones headed MI5's counter-subversion [[MI5 F Branch|F Branch]] from 1972 to 1974.<ref>Christopher Andrew, Defence of the Realm, The Authorized History of MI5, Allen Lane, 2009, p.621.</ref> | ||
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| + | He became Deputy Director General in 1976.<ref>[http://www.mi5.gov.uk/output/former-dgs.html Former Directors General], MI5, accessed 30 June 2009.</ref> | ||
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| + | Jones became Director General in 1981.<ref>[http://www.mi5.gov.uk/output/former-dgs.html Former Directors General], MI5, accessed 30 June 2009.</ref> | ||
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| + | According to Stephen Dorril, Jones' position was weakened by the [[Geoffrey Prime]] case: | ||
| + | ::Internally, MI5 appears to have been split between Jones's supporters, who came primarily from F Branch, and an opposition made up of the old guard of [[MI5 K Branch|K Branch]], who regarded their work as more important, and the younger officers, who had difficulty accepting the political role which the service, with its increased concentration on subversion, was expected t undertake.<ref>Stephen Dorril, The Silent Conspiracy: Inside the Intelligence Services in the 1990s, Mandarin, 1994, p.486.</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 20:46, 24 January 2011
Sir John Jones was head of the British Security Service (MI5) from 1981 to 1985.[1]
Jones served as an officer in the Royal Artillery and a civil servant in pre-independence Sudan before joining the Security Service in 1955.[2]
Jones headed MI5's counter-subversion F Branch from 1972 to 1974.[3]
He became Deputy Director General in 1976.[4]
Director General
Jones became Director General in 1981.[5]
According to Stephen Dorril, Jones' position was weakened by the Geoffrey Prime case:
- Internally, MI5 appears to have been split between Jones's supporters, who came primarily from F Branch, and an opposition made up of the old guard of K Branch, who regarded their work as more important, and the younger officers, who had difficulty accepting the political role which the service, with its increased concentration on subversion, was expected t undertake.[6]
External Resources
- Namebase: Jones John Lewis
Notes
- ↑ Former Directors General, MI5, accessed 30 June 2009.
- ↑ Former Directors General, MI5, accessed 30 June 2009.
- ↑ Christopher Andrew, Defence of the Realm, The Authorized History of MI5, Allen Lane, 2009, p.621.
- ↑ Former Directors General, MI5, accessed 30 June 2009.
- ↑ Former Directors General, MI5, accessed 30 June 2009.
- ↑ Stephen Dorril, The Silent Conspiracy: Inside the Intelligence Services in the 1990s, Mandarin, 1994, p.486.
