John Killick

John Killick
John Killick ; (diplomat, soldier, spook, deep state operative?);
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Born	18 November 1919
Died	12 February 2004 (Age 84)
Alma mater	University College London, Bonn University
Member of	Le Cercle
	UK Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council
In office
	1975 - 1979
Preceded by	Edward Peck
Succeeded by	Clive Rose
	UK Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Moscow
In office
	1971 - 1973

John Edward Killick was a spooky UK diplomat.

Background

John Killick attended Latymer Upper School, University College, London, and Bonn University. He was in the British Army during World War II, first in the Suffolk Regiment, later in the 1st Airborne Division in which he commanded the 89th Field Security Section (Intelligence Corps) at Arnhem. He was captured by the Germans, and after release in 1945 he commanded the intelligence corps unit at Siegen.

Killick joined the Foreign Office in 1946 and served with the Allied High Commission in Germany 1948–51, at Berlin, Frankfurt and Bonn. He was private secretary to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office 1951–54, served at the embassy in Addis Ababa 1954–57, then attended the Canadian National Defence College (then located with the Canadian Land Forces Command and Staff College) 1957–58. He was in the Western European department at the Foreign Office 1958–62, attended the Imperial Defence College 1962–63, then was Head of Chancery at the embassy in Washington, D.C., 1963–68, and Assistant Under-Secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) 1968–71.

Killick was appointed Ambassador at Moscow in September 1971.^[1] Shortly after he arrived, the British government expelled 90 Russian intelligence officers,^[2] and Killick had to deal with the difficult Anglo-Soviet relations that followed. He returned to London 1973–75 as deputy to the Permanent Under-Secretary at the FCO, Sir Thomas Brimelow, and also Britain's Permanent Representative on the Council of the Western European Union. He was Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council (the governing body of NATO) 1975–79.

He attended Le Cercle in South Africa 1984.

Killick was appointed CMG in the New Year Honours of 1966,^[3] knighted KCMG in the Queen's Birthday Honours of 1971^[4] and raised to GCMG in the Birthday Honours of 1979.^[5]

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Le Cercle/1984 (Capetown)	12 January 1984	15 January 1984	Stellenbosch Capetown South Africa	4 day meeting of Le Cercle in Capetown exposed after Joel Van der Reijden discovered the attendee list for this conference and published it online in 2011

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