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When asked by [[Robert Fellowes]] "''What shall I tell [[Elizabeth Windsor|Her Majesty]] her [[Secret Intelligence Service]] is for?''" Warner reportedly said "''Please tell her it is the last penumbra of her Empire.''"<ref>War Resistance and Intelligence, Dr K G Robertson, p. 228</ref> The [[BBC]] reports him as stating that "the main concern was always balancing the value of possible intelligence against the risk."<ref>http://blog.cronosconsulting.com/?tag=history</ref>
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'''Sir Gerry Warner''' an [[MI6]] officer who became [[Deputy Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service]] in the 1990s. His wife, Mary Warner, was "one of the foremost researchers in fuzzy mathematics".<ref name="sta-mary-bio"/>
  
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Warner was MI6's Director of Counterintelligence and Security in the late 1980s.<ref>http://powerbase.info/index.php/Gerry_Warner</ref> Information on Warner is surprisingly scarce on the WWW and includes suggestions that Warner was a homosexual.<ref>http://www.djbcontractors.com/forbidden/Hower/Calli/0_main.html</ref>
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==Background==
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Gerald Warner studied history at Oxford, graduating in 1954 and joined the [[MI6|"Diplomatic Service in the Intelligence Branch"]]. In 1956 he married a mathematic student at Oxford, Mary Wynne Davies.
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<ref name="sta-mary-bio">http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Warner.html</ref><ref>http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obits/Warner.html</ref>
  
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==MI6==
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In 1956, his job took him to [[China]], where his first son, Sian was born and soon after he returned to London. In 1959 Jonathan was born and soon the family were off to [[Burma]] where the third of Warner's children, Rachel, was born in 1961. In the 1960s he worked in [[Poland]], then for two years in Geneva. His last overseas posting was from 1974-1976, in [[Malaysia]]. His wife's prodigous mathematical talent began to make itself known and between 1980 and 1985 she wrote 20 papers on tolerance spaces and automata.<ref name="sta-mary-bio"/>
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===1980s===
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Warner was MI6's [[Director of Counterintelligence and Security]] in the late 1980s.<ref>http://powerbase.info/index.php/Gerry_Warner</ref><!--  [[Trowbridge H Ford]] asserted in 2011 that Warner, together with [[Gordon Barrass]] and [[Harry Burke]] was connected to the 1986 [[assassination]] of [[Olof Palme]].<ref>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/09/05/captain-simon-hayward-the-making-of-olof-palmes-assassin-and-its-blowback/</ref> -->
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===1990s===
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Warner was [[Co-ordinator for Intelligence and Security]] from 1991 to 1996.<ref>[[Document:UK Intelligence And Security Report, 2003]]</ref> When asked by [[Robert Fellowes]] "''What shall I tell [[Elizabeth Windsor|Her Majesty]] her [[Secret Intelligence Service]] is for?''" Warner reportedly said "''Please tell her it is the last penumbra of her Empire.''"<ref>War Resistance and Intelligence, Dr K G Robertson, p. 228</ref> The [[BBC]] reports him as stating that "the main concern was always balancing the value of possible intelligence against the risk."<ref>http://blog.cronosconsulting.com/?tag=history</ref>
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==Family Tragedy==
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Warner's son Jonathan and daughter Sian reportedly had mental health problems and both took their own lives during the 1990s.<ref name="sta-mary-bio"/>
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==Later activities==
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He is quoted by [[BBC]] occasionally on espionage matters, and in a 2001 story criticising the total cost of the UK's [[intelligence agencies]], he estimated that "the total cost the [[UK]]'s intelligence gathering is £2.5bn, when all military intelligence and satellite surveillance is included."<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1250575.stm</ref>
 
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Revision as of 15:16, 25 January 2015

Person.png Gerry WarnerRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(spook, diplomat)
BornGerald Warner
1932?
A former deputy director of MI6. No Wikipedia page known as of 2015!

Employment.png Deputy Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service

In office
1990 - 1998
BossDavid Spedding
Was not Deputy Chief for this whole time, but at some point between 1990 and February 1998. By February 1998, he had retired.

Sir Gerry Warner an MI6 officer who became Deputy Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service in the 1990s. His wife, Mary Warner, was "one of the foremost researchers in fuzzy mathematics".[1]

Background

Gerald Warner studied history at Oxford, graduating in 1954 and joined the "Diplomatic Service in the Intelligence Branch". In 1956 he married a mathematic student at Oxford, Mary Wynne Davies. [1][2]

MI6

In 1956, his job took him to China, where his first son, Sian was born and soon after he returned to London. In 1959 Jonathan was born and soon the family were off to Burma where the third of Warner's children, Rachel, was born in 1961. In the 1960s he worked in Poland, then for two years in Geneva. His last overseas posting was from 1974-1976, in Malaysia. His wife's prodigous mathematical talent began to make itself known and between 1980 and 1985 she wrote 20 papers on tolerance spaces and automata.[1]

1980s

Warner was MI6's Director of Counterintelligence and Security in the late 1980s.[3]

1990s

Warner was Co-ordinator for Intelligence and Security from 1991 to 1996.[4] When asked by Robert Fellowes "What shall I tell Her Majesty her Secret Intelligence Service is for?" Warner reportedly said "Please tell her it is the last penumbra of her Empire."[5] The BBC reports him as stating that "the main concern was always balancing the value of possible intelligence against the risk."[6]

Family Tragedy

Warner's son Jonathan and daughter Sian reportedly had mental health problems and both took their own lives during the 1990s.[1]


Later activities

He is quoted by BBC occasionally on espionage matters, and in a 2001 story criticising the total cost of the UK's intelligence agencies, he estimated that "the total cost the UK's intelligence gathering is £2.5bn, when all military intelligence and satellite surveillance is included."[7]

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References

  1. ↑ a b c d http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Warner.html
  2. ↑ http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obits/Warner.html
  3. ↑ http://powerbase.info/index.php/Gerry_Warner
  4. ↑ Document:UK Intelligence And Security Report, 2003
  5. ↑ War Resistance and Intelligence, Dr K G Robertson, p. 228
  6. ↑ http://blog.cronosconsulting.com/?tag=history
  7. ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1250575.stm


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