John Jones (MI5 officer)

Sir John Jones, KCB (1923–1998) 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.The Defence of the Realm, by Christopher Andrew, Page 556, Published by Allen Lane, 2009, ISBN 978 0713998856 He joined the Security Service in 1955.

In 1983, he was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) by Queen Elizabeth II.

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