Allegiance United Kingdom Name David Spedding Spouse Gillian Kinnear | Nationality British Active 1967 - 1999 | |
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Service Secret Intelligence Service (SIS/MI6) Died June 13, 2001, London, United Kingdom Awards Order of St Michael and St George, Royal Victorian Order, Order of the British Empire | ||
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Sir David Rolland Spedding KCMG CVO OBE (7 March 1943 – 13 June 2001) was Head of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) from 1994 to 1999.
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Career
Spedding was educated at Sherborne School and read history at Hertford College, Oxford. He joined the Secret Intelligence Service in 1967 and then attended the Middle East Center for Arabic Studies in Beirut becoming a specialist on Middle East affairs. He also served in Santiago and Abu Dhabi. In 1993, he became Director of Requirements and Operations and in 1994 he became Chief of the Service.
Sir David Spedding died of lung cancer on 13 June 2001, aged 58.
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