Leonard Hooper

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Person.png Leonard Hooper  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
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Born23 July 1914
Died19 February 1994 (Age 79)
A former head of GCHQ.

Employment.png Director of GCHQ Wikipedia-icon.png

In office
1965 - 1973
EmployerGCHQ

Sir Leonard James (Joe) Hooper was a former director of GCHQ, a post he held from 1965 to 1973.

Background

Hooper was educated at Alleyn's School in South East London and Worcester College, Oxford.[1]

Career

Hooper joined the Government Code and Cypher School in August 1938, and was based at Bletchley Park during World War II.[2] He stayed on with the organisation after the war, which became GCHQ, and, after five years as deputy director, served as its director from January 1965 to November 1973.[2]

In the mid-1970s he served as the Intelligence Co-ordinator in the Cabinet Office, where he acted as a general overseer of the UK Intelligence Community.[2]

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Refrences

  1. "The A to Z of British Intelligence". p. 247. Retrieved 26 December 2013.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
  2. a b c "Michael Herman, ''Hooper, Sir Leonard James (1914-1994), intelligence officer and civil servant'', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004". Oxforddnb.com. Retrieved 2014-03-25.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").


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