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| + | |birth_name=Christopher Keith Curwen | ||
|birth_date=9 April 1929 | |birth_date=9 April 1929 | ||
|death_date=18 December 2013 | |death_date=18 December 2013 | ||
| + | |death_place=Bath, UK | ||
|description=Head of MI6 | |description=Head of MI6 | ||
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|employment={{job | |employment={{job | ||
|title=Coordinator for Intelligence and Security | |title=Coordinator for Intelligence and Security | ||
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| − | |end=1991}}{{job | + | |end=1991 |
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|start=1985 | |start=1985 | ||
|end=November 1988 | |end=November 1988 | ||
|description="Regarded as a safe pair of hands."<ref name="dorrill753"/> | |description="Regarded as a safe pair of hands."<ref name="dorrill753"/> | ||
}}{{job | }}{{job | ||
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|start=1980 | |start=1980 | ||
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| − | Christopher Curwen was "a [[South East Asia]] specialist, who had followed the traditional route to the top through postings to Geneva and Washington".<ref name="dorrill753"/> | + | '''Sir Christopher Curwen''' was "a [[South East Asia]] specialist, who had followed the traditional route to [[Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service|the top]] through postings to [[Geneva]] and [[Washington]]".<ref name="dorrill753"/> |
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| + | ==Background== | ||
| + | Christopher Curwen was educated at [[Sherborne School]] and [[Sidney Sussex College Cambridge]] after which he was [[Commissioned officer|commissioned]] into the [[4th Queen's Own Hussars]] in 1948, serving in [[Malayan Emergency|Malaya]].<ref>[http://www.burkespeerage.com/familyhomepage.aspx?FID=0&FN=CURWEN Burke's Peerage and Gentry]</ref> | ||
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| + | ==Career== | ||
| + | Curwen joined [[MI6]] in 1952 and was posted to [[Thailand]] in 1954 and [[Vientiane]], [[Laos]] in 1956. He returned to the London headquarters in 1958, and then went to [[Bangkok]] from 1961 and had two years in [[Kuala Lumpur]]. | ||
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| + | He spent three years as SIS liaison officer in [[Washington D.C.]] from 1968 and was then head of station in [[Geneva]].<ref name=dorrill753/> | ||
===Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service=== | ===Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service=== | ||
| − | + | Christopher Curwen succeeded Sir [[Colin Figures]] as head of the [[Secret Intelligence Service]] in 1985.<ref>Richard Norton-Taylor, MI6 top job goes to former diplomat / Christopher Curwen allegedly appointed intelligence service head, ''[[The Guardian]]'', 16 December 1985.</ref> He was succeed in turn by Sir [[Colin McColl]] in November 1988.<ref name="dorrill753">[[Stephen Dorril]], MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Touchstone, 2002, p.753.</ref> | |
| − | + | His obituaries in ''[[The Independent]]'', ''[[The Times]]'' and ''[[The Telegraph]]'' said very little about his background but made much of his exfiltration of [[Oleg Gordievsky]] from [[Moscow]].<ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10536155/Sir-Christopher-Curwen-obituary.html</ref><ref>wgMainCacheType</ref> | |
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==References== | ==References== | ||
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| Born | Christopher Keith Curwen 9 April 1929 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 18 December 2013 (Age 84) Bath, UK | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Sidney Sussex College Cambridge | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Head of MI6
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Sir Christopher Curwen was "a South East Asia specialist, who had followed the traditional route to the top through postings to Geneva and Washington".[1]
Background
Christopher Curwen was educated at Sherborne School and Sidney Sussex College Cambridge after which he was commissioned into the 4th Queen's Own Hussars in 1948, serving in Malaya.[2]
Career
Curwen joined MI6 in 1952 and was posted to Thailand in 1954 and Vientiane, Laos in 1956. He returned to the London headquarters in 1958, and then went to Bangkok from 1961 and had two years in Kuala Lumpur.
He spent three years as SIS liaison officer in Washington D.C. from 1968 and was then head of station in Geneva.[1]
Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service
Christopher Curwen succeeded Sir Colin Figures as head of the Secret Intelligence Service in 1985.[3] He was succeed in turn by Sir Colin McColl in November 1988.[1]
His obituaries in The Independent, The Times and The Telegraph said very little about his background but made much of his exfiltration of Oleg Gordievsky from Moscow.[4][5]
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References
- ↑ a b c d Stephen Dorril, MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Touchstone, 2002, p.753.
- ↑ Burke's Peerage and Gentry
- ↑ Richard Norton-Taylor, MI6 top job goes to former diplomat / Christopher Curwen allegedly appointed intelligence service head, The Guardian, 16 December 1985.
- ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10536155/Sir-Christopher-Curwen-obituary.html
- ↑ wgMainCacheType
