Norman Hamilton McMillan

MI6 Europe Controller c.1997

Norman Hamilton 'Mac' McMillan (1946-2021) was an MI6 officer who headed the service's counter-terrorism section before leading its European operations in the mid-1990s (ref 1).

Early life

McMillan spent much of his youth in Hamburg, where his father was resident as a banker (ref 1). In the mid-1960s, he read chemistry at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was recruited by an MI6 talent-spotter (ref 1). Among his contemporaries at Oxford was Howard Marks, who he would later recruit as an agent with fateful consequences (ref 1).