Cecil Shipp

Deputy Director-General of MI5 1982-c.1986

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Cecil O. Shipp was MI5 Security Liaison Officer in Washington DC in the early 1970s and Deputy Director-General (DDG) of the service from 1982 until around 1986. Regarded as a skilled interrogator, those he questioned included Anthony Blunt, the Cambridge spy who infiltrated MI5 for Soviet intelligence, and former MI6 chief Sir Maurice Oldfield.