Charles Jocelyn Hambro

Charles Jocelyn Hambro
Charles Jocelyn Hambro ; (spook, banker);
	CD of The Special Operations Executive
In office
	May 1942 - September 1943
Preceded by	Frank Nelson
Succeeded by	Colin Gubbins
	Resigned in protest.

Charles Jocelyn Hambro served as head of the Special Operations Executive for a period during the Second World War.^[1] His first major action as head of the SOE was to meet with Colonel William Joseph Donovan, the head of the OSS and his opposite number.

Resignation

Hambro resigned in September 1943 after GHQ Middle East, the Foreign Office, and the Joint Intelligence Committee mounted an attack on SOE's autonomy.

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↑ Stephen Dorril, MI6: Inside the Covert World of her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Touchstone, 2000, p.138.

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