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Howard Smith (diplomat)

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Allegiance
  
Name
  
Howard Smith

Service
  
Role
  
Active
  
1979-1981

Died
  
May 7, 1996

Nationality
  
British


Rank
  
Director-General of MI5

Occupation
  
Awards
  
Order of St Michael and St George

Sir Howard Frank Trayton Smith, GCMG (15 October 1919 – 7 May 1996) was a British diplomat.

Career

Educated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, Smith worked at Bletchley Park during World War II and later became the British ambassador to Moscow. At college in Cambridge, Smith was a contemporary of Asa Briggs, playing chess with him and recommending Briggs to fellow Cambridge mathematician Gordon Welchman for service in Hut 6.

In 1979 Smith was unexpectedly appointed Director General (DG) of MI5, the United Kingdom's internal security service, by Prime Minister James Callaghan, serving until 1981.

References

Howard Smith (diplomat) Wikipedia


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