Deputy Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service

Deputy Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service
Type	job

In contrast to the Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, the deputy chief of MI6 is not named. One was appointed around July 2003.

 

Office Holders on Wikispooks

Name	From	To	Description
Mark Allen	2003	2004	Dates highly uncertain, but cited as deputy chief when Abdul-Hakim Belhaj was kidnapped from Malaysia in March 2004.<a href="#cite_note-c4t-1">[1]</a>
Gerry Warner	1990	1991	Was Deputy Chief for this whole time, but at some point between 1990 and February 1998. He probably left the service when he became Co-ordinator for Intelligence and Security.
Christopher Curwen	1980	1985
Colin Figures	1979	July 1981
Dick Franks	1977	1978
Peter Hayman	1973	1978	These dates are uncertain, as are the circumstances regarding his departure. In 1978 a dossier of child pornography was found on a bus, later linked by police to Hayman.
Maurice Oldfield	1967	1973
John Macgregor Bruce Lockhart	1961	1965
George Kennedy Young	1958	1961	Reportedly resigned due to dissatisfaction with the MacMillan government. The start date is speculative, but matches the departure of James Easton.
James Easton	1951	1958
John Cordeaux	6 March 1943	1945	Deputy Director/Navy
Edward Beddington-Behrens	6 March 1943	1944	Deputy Director/Army (DD/A)
Lionel Payne	6 March 1943	1945	Deputy Director/Air.
Valentine Vivian	1942	1948	Sole holder of this position until 1943, after which time it was shared. The start and end dates of this posting are conjectured.
Stewart Menzies	1929	3 November 1939

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