Norman Himsworth

MI5 counter-subversion and security liaison officer

Norman Himsworth was an MI5 officer for nearly fifty years. He joined as one of ‘Knight’s Black Agents’ during the Second World War, running the anti-communist operations of Maxwell Knight’s agent-running section. He later served as a Security Liaison Officer in Iraq, the Caribbean and Pakistan. He continued to be involved in training younger officers in a consulting role until his final retirement in the 1990s.