James Fulton

MI6 Far East Controller c.1955

Welcome! I’m Tom Griffin and this is my intelligence history newsletter. Feel free to share this article with the button below. My latest paid subscriber post below is on James Fulton, an MI6 officer whose name turns up in recent JFK file releases from the US. Although it seems certain that he was MI6’s Far East Controller in Singapore in the mid-1950s, the sources are otherwise contradictory on the dates of his presence in Asia.

Given that this is MI6 the best primary source to be hoped for is probably some reference to his cover positions in Malaya, and I will look out for that on future visits to the National Archives. I would be grateful for any other suggestions regarding evidence whether via email or in website comments.

James Fulton was an MI6 officer who headed the service’s Far Eastern operations from Singapore during the mid-1950s.

Early life

Fulton was a former schoolmaster at Eton.¹

MI6

Second World War

Fulton was working for MI6 by 1943, when correspondence for Captain Philipp Chamier was directed to him via the War Office. Chamier parachuted into Nazi Germany on an ill-fated intelligence mission in April 1944.²

Fulton served as an intelligence officer attached to 21 Army Group, which was active in Western Europe between 1943 and 1945.³

Post-War

After the War, he was seconded to the Political Division of the British Control Commission in Germany.⁴