Major C.J.D "Jock" Haswell, (Chenwynd Haswell) who also wrote as George Foster (born 1919) is a British military and intelligence author and former British intelligence officer. He was "Author for Service Intelligence" 1966-1984.
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Early life
Haswell was born in Penn, Buckinghamshire. He was educated at Little Appley Preparatory School and Winchester College.
Career
Haswell was trained at Sandhurst c. 1938/9 - 1941. He joined the Queen's Royal Regiment on 3 April 1941. Later in 1941 he was stationed in India, and saw local action.
He was promoted Major on 3 July 1952.
He retired from the army on 29 April 1960.
Haswell's later work was mostly writing, continuing a thread from his military and intelligence work. He self-deprecatingly described his books as "holes held together with string". Nonetheless, his James II, for example, was reviewed in the Times of 29 July 1972 by Geoffrey Homes.