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.^{[citation needed]}

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