John Gerson

John Gerson
John Gerson; (spook, businessman, deep state operative?);
Alma mater	University of Freiburg, King’s College (Cambridge)
	Director of Security and Public Affairs
In office
	1997 - 1999
	Dates unconfirmed. He "took early retirement from what was effectively the post of deputy head of MI6 at the end of [1999]."

John Gerson is a spook turned oil executive.

Career

John Gerson worked at MI6, where he reached the post of Director of Security and Public Affairs^[1] in around 1997.^[2]

He was HM Consul in Beijing from 1974 to 1977 and interpreted for and advised Margaret Thatcher on China.

It became the task of the Director of Security and Public Affairs, and effectively C's number two, John Gerson, to 'deal' with Richard Tomlinson/^[3]

He later was given a "top job" at BP.^[1]

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↑ ^a ^b http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/08/richardnortontaylor
↑ Stephen Dorril, The Silent Conspiracy: Inside the Intelligence Services in the 1990s, Mandarin, 1994, p.796.
↑ http://cryptome.org/mi6/mi6-restored.htm