Allegiance United Kingdom Name Patrick Walker Service MI5 Role MI5 officer | Active 1963-1992 Nationality British Awards Order of the Bath | |
Rank Director-General of MI5 Occupation Intelligence officer, Civil servant | ||
Alma mater Trinity College, Oxford | ||
Sir Patrick Jeremy Walker, KCB was director general (DG) of MI5, the United Kingdom's internal security service, from 1988 to 1992.
Career
An Oxford graduate, Walker was the first D-G to be a Roman Catholic. The son of the chief accountant of the East African Railways, Walker was educated at the King's School, Canterbury and Trinity College, Oxford. He joined MI5 from the Ugandan Civil Service Colonial Service in 1963. He was Director-General of MI5 from 1988 to 1992. While working at the security service and before his promotion, he was head of the counter-terrorism department. He then went on to oversee the whole MI5 during the end of the Cold War.
References
Patrick Walker (MI5 officer) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA