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Director General of MI5

Head of the UK's Security Service

Summary

Head of the UK's Security Service

FieldValue
postDirector General
of the Security Service (MI5)
imageKen McCallum MI5.jpg
imagesize200px
incumbentKen McCallum
incumbentsince
departmentSecurity Service (MI5)
appointerHome Secretary
termlengthNo fixed term
residenceThames House, London, UK
formationSecurity Service Act 1989
inauguralVernon Kell
1909
websitehttps://www.mi5.gov.uk/

NOTOC of the Security Service (MI5) 1909 The Director General of the Security Service is the head of the Security Service (commonly known as MI5), the United Kingdom's internal counter-intelligence and security agency. The director general is assisted by a deputy director general and an assistant director general, and reports to the home secretary, although the Security Service is not formally part of the Home Office.

List of directors general

Directors General have been:

  1. Maj Gen Sir Vernon Kell, 1909–1940
  2. Brigadier 'Jasper' Harker, Acting, June 1940 – April 1941
  3. Sir David Petrie, 1941–1946
  4. Sir Percy Sillitoe, 1946–1953
  5. Sir Dick White, 1953–1956
  6. Sir Roger Hollis, 1956–1965
  7. Sir Martin Furnival Jones, 1965–1972
  8. Sir Michael Hanley, 1972–1978
  9. Sir Howard Smith, 1978–1981
  10. Sir John Jones, 1981–1985
  11. Sir Antony Duff, 1985–1988
  12. Sir Patrick Walker, 1988–1992
  13. Dame Stella Rimington, 1992–1996
  14. Sir Stephen Lander, 1996–2002
  15. Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, 2002–2007
  16. Sir Jonathan Evans, 2007–2013
  17. Sir Andrew Parker, 2013–2020
  18. Sir Ken McCallum, from 2020

References

References

  1. "Former Directors General".
  2. "Oswald Allen Harker (1886–1968)". State Secrets....
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