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MI5 Deputy Director General 1972-76

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Ronald Symonds (1916-98) was Deputy Director General of the Security Service, MI5, from 1972 to 1976.1

In the early 1960s, he carried out the internally divisive investigation which concluded that one of his predecessors in that position, Graham Mitchell, was not a Soviet mole.

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