Index of persons
A
Sir Mark Allen - former MI6 head of counterterrorism.
B
Vadim Bakatin - KGB chairman 1991
David Balfour - MI6 head of station Tel Aviv 1949-51
Royd Barker - MI5 Director A, early 1980s
David Barnea - Mossad Director 2021-
Richard Barrett - MI6 Director of Counter-terrorism, c.2001
Paul Bergne - MI6 officer, later Afghan envoy c.2001.
Rupert Bowen - MI6 officer, later Sandline International representative.
William V. Broe - CIA Western Hemisphere Division Chief 1965-72
William Burns - Director of the Central Intelligence Agency 2021-.
Christopher Burrows - former MI6 officer.
C
John Christie - MI6 station chief in Kuwait 1958-62 and Jeddah 1963-4.
John Clibborn - MI6 controller Africa, 1980s
Nigel Clive - MI6 officer and head of the Information Research Department 1966-69
Yossi Cohen - Mossad director 2016-21
John Colvin - MI6 Washington liaison officer, late 1970s
John Cradock - Deputy Director General of MI5 c.1982
Cleveland Cram - CIA Chief of Station Ottawa c.1975
Alastair Crooke - MI6 Deputy Chief of Station Islamabad c.1985
Mansfield Cumming - Founding head of MI6 until 1923
Christopher Curwen - Chief of MI6 1985-88
D
Richard Dearlove - Chief of MI6 1999-2005
Stephen de Mowbray - MI6 officer 1950-79
John Deverell - MI5 branch director and DCI (Northern Ireland) c.1994
William Donovan - OSS Director 1942-45
Sir Antony Duff - MI5 Director General 1985-88
Allen Dulles - Director of Central Intelligence 1953-61
E
David Eastwood - MI5 officer, DCI (Northern Ireland) c.1970-72
Jonathan Evans, Baron Evans of Weardale. MI5 Director General 2007-13.
F
Majed Faraj - Director of Palestinian General Intelligence Service 2009-
Charles Farr - MI6 Director of Counter-terrorism, OSCT head and JIC chair 2015-19
Julian Faux - MI5 Deputy Director General (Operations) 1988-93
Alan Ferneyhough - MI5 officer, DCI Northern Ireland 1985-87
Colin Figures - Chief of MI6 1981-85
Jeremy Fleming - Director GCHQ 2017-23
Alexis Forter - MI6 Paris station chief c.1982
Heinz Fromm - President of the BfV 2000-12
G
Barrie Gane - MI6 Director of Production and Requirements c.1992
Clair George - CIA Deputy Director for Operations 1984-87
H
Michael Hanley - MI5 Director General 1972-76
August Hanning - BND President 1998-2005
Gina Haspel - Director of the CIA 2018-21
Heribert Hellenbroich - President of the BfV 1983-85 and BND 1985
Christopher Herbert MI5 officer, last head of SIFE from 1962, DCI (Northern Ireland) 1969-70
Roscoe Hillenkoetter - US Director of Central Intelligence 1947-50
Norman Himsworth - MI5 counter-subversion officer 1940s, Security Liaison Officer 1950s-60s
Yitzhak Hofi - Mossad Director 1974-82
Roger Horrell - MI6 Director of Personnel and Administration 1990s
I
Nigel Inkster - MI6 Assistant Chief and Director for Operations and Intelligence 2004-06
J
Andrew Johnstone - MI6 officer c.1956-73
John Jones - MI5 Director-General 1981-85
K
Abbas Kamel - Director of Egyptian General Intelligence Service 2018-24
Anne Keast-Butler - Director of GCHQ 2023-
Ahmed Abdel Khalek - EGIS Palestinian Affairs Chief 2018-
Michael Knight - MI5 officer, DCI (Northern Ireland) 1987-88
L
Stephen Lander - MI5 Director General 1996-2002
M
Hans-George Maassen - BfV President 2012-18
Eliza Manningham-Buller, Baroness Manningham-Buller - Director General of MI5 2002-07
Ken McCallum - Director General of MI5 2020-
Colin McColl - Chief of MI6 1989-94
Norman Hamilton MacMillan - MI6 Controller Europe c.1997
Daniel Markić - Director European Intelligence and Situation Centre 2024-
Cord Meyer - CIA London station chief 1973-76
Richard Moore - Chief of MI6 2020-
Jack Morton - Head of SIFE 1949-52 and MI5 branch director
O
Maurice Oldfield - Chief of MI6 1973-78
P
Tamir Pardo - Mossad Director 2011-16
Andrew Parker - Director General of MI5 2013-20
John Parker - DCI (Northern Ireland) c.1977-80, director of S Branch MI5, c.1982.
Denis Payne - MI5 officer and DCI (Northern Ireland) 1973-75
Christopher Phillpotts - MI6 director of counterintelligence c.1968
Yevgeny Primakov - SVR Director 1991-96
Edward W. Proctor - CIA Deputy Director for Intelligence 1971-76
R
David Ranson - DCI (Northern Ireland) c.1980-81, director of F Branch MI5 and Deputy Director General
Hassan Rashad - EGIS Director 2024-
John Rennie - Head of the Information Research Department 1953-58 and chief of MI6 1968-73
Stella Rimington - MI5 Director General 1992-96
Frederick Allan Rowley - MI6 officer, DCI Northern Ireland 1972-73
S
John Sawers - Chief of MI6 2009-14
John Scarlett - Chief of MI6 2004-09
Michael Shipster - MI6 Middle East and Africa Director 2001-4
Anthony Simkins - Deputy Director General of MI5 1965-71
Howard Smith - MI5 Director General 1978-81
Sidney Souers - US Director of Central Intelligence 1946
David Spedding - Chief of MI6 1994-99
Christopher Steele - head of MI6 Russia desk 2006-09
Frank Steele - MI6 head of Middle East operations c.1973-75
Omar Suleiman - Director of Egyptian General Intelligence Service 1993-2011
Ronald Symonds - MI5 Deputy Director General 1972-76
T
Geoffrey Tantum - MI6 Middle East Controller c.1995
Bronson Tweedy - CIA Vienna and London Station Chief, founding Africa Division chief in 1959.
U
Alan Urwick - 1950s MI6 officer who became senior diplomat.
V
Hoyt Vandenberg - US Director of Central Intelligence 1946-47
Valentine Vivian - Deputy Chief of MI6 1940-43
W
Patrick Walker - MI5 Director General 1987-92
Y
Alex Younger - Chief of MI6 2014-20