Andrew Parker
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| Born | 1962 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Member of | Australian Institute of International Affairs, Banned from Russia 2015, Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Official Narrative
Parker was educated at Churchill College, Cambridge where he studied Natural Sciences.[1] He joined the Security Service in 1983.[2] He was seconded to HM Customs and Excise as Director Intelligence in 1999 before becoming Director, International Terrorism at the Security Service in February 2005.[3] After leading the Security Service's response to the 7 July 2005 London bombings and the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot, he became Deputy Director-General in 2007.[2] He went on to become Director-General of the Service on 22 April 2013.[4][5]
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References
- ↑ "Meet the real-life spymaster: Andrew Parker announced as new director general of MI5". The Independent. 28 March 2013. Retrieved 28 March 2013.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
- ↑ a b "Andrew Parker named as new head of MI5". BBC. 28 March 2013. Retrieved 28 March 2013.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
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