White, Sir Dick Goldsmith
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▪ 1994
British intelligence official (b. Dec. 20, 1906, Kent, England—d. Feb. 20, 1993, Sussex, England),
was, at the time of his death, the only person to have headed both the British internal security service, MI-5 (1953-56), and the overseas secret intelligence service, MI-6 (1956-69). White was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, and at the Universities of Michigan and California. During World War II he rose to the rank of colonel in the army and was attached to the Allied headquarters as a counterintelligence officer. After the war he joined MI-5, of which he was named director general in 1953; three years later he moved to MI-6 as the first civilian to head that agency. As the director of the British intelligence community throughout much of the cold war, White reorganized and modernized both MI-5 and MI-6. In 1967 his hitherto top secret identity at MI-6 was divulged in the
Saturday Evening Post magazine. It was later revealed that he had long suspected Kim Philby (who defected in 1963) of being a Soviet agent and that he had known since 1964 that Sir Anthony Blunt (who was publicly unmasked in 1979) was also a counterspy. After leaving MI-6, White served as intelligence coordinator to the Cabinet (1969-72). He was knighted in 1955.
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