Allegiance United Kingdom Name John Jones Service MI5 Role MI5 officer | Active 1955–1985 Awards Order of the Bath Nationality British | |
Rank Director-General of MI5 Occupation Intelligence Officer, Civil servant Died March 9, 1998, Boston, United Kingdom Education Christ's College, Cambridge | ||
Sir John Jones, KCB (17 February 1923 – 9 March 1998) was Director-General of MI5, the United Kingdom's internal security service, from 1981 until 1985.
Career
Jones was a native of Wigton in Cumbria, and went to The Nelson Thomlinson School in that town. A graduate of Christ's College Cambridge where he read History, he became an officer in the Royal Artillery during World War II and served as a civil servant in the pre-independence Government of Sudan. He joined the Security Service in 1955. He became Deputy Director General in 1976. He was Director-General of MI5 from 1981 to 1985.
In 1983, he was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) by Queen Elizabeth II.
References
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