John Collard

John Collard
John Collard; (solicitor, spook);
Born	John Ambrose Collard; 1 January 1913; Whitechapel, London
Died	23 July 2002 (Age 89); Rye, Sussex
Alma mater	Keble College (Oxford)
	Head of MI11
In office
	1942 - 1945
	Intelligence Officer
In office
	1946 - 1952
Employer	MI5
	Agent
In office
	1953 - 1957
Employer	IDSO

John Collard was a British solicitor and former MI5 operative who went on to become an agent of the International Diamond Security Organisation (IDSO).^[1]

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:De Beers to abandon cartel	Article	30 May 2000	Dan Atkinson	De Beers hit a high point in profit terms in the boom year 1989-90, but the following decade was to cost its shareholders billions of dollars. The break-up of the Soviet Union brought a flood of illicit diamonds on to the market, as did the civil war in Angola. In abandoning the CSO diamond cartel, Managing Director Gary Ralfe hopes to use De Beers' dominant position to persuade everyone in the industry to spend much more on marketing.

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