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Royd Barker

Royd Barker

MI5 Director A, early 1980s

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Royd Barker was an officer of the Security Service, MI5.

He may have been the ‘Royd’ who served as security liaison officer for Sierra Leone and the Gambia in 1962.1

He served as head of the service's operational support wing, A Branch, in the early 1980s. 2

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