1. Dick White was Director General of MI5 from 1953 to 1956, and Head of the Secret Intelligence Service from 1956 to 1968.
12 Facts About Dick White
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Dick White took a First Class Degree in History at Christ Church, Oxford in 1927, and learnt to speak German.
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Dick White was athletic in his youth and obtained a blue in running at Oxford.
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Dick White was spotted by a recruiter in 1935 while on Mediterranean cruise with his students and invited to an interview with Guy Liddell at MI5.
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Dick White was employed at MI5 in 1936 to monitor the rise of Nazism in Germany and spent a year in Munich attempting to recruit Germans.
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Dick White was a co-creator of the Double-Cross system in 1940, to turn Abwehr agents in the UK and elsewhere.
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Dick White was sent to Berlin at the end of the war to investigate Hitler's fate.
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Dick White returned to MI5 in 1947 as head of its counter-intelligence division.
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Dick White attempted to track the latter two to France but they had escaped.
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Dick White was never to be as successful there as he had been in MI5.
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Dick White had always suspected Kim Philby of being the "third man".
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Dick White would retire in 1968 and became the Cabinet Office's first Intelligence Co-ordinator before retiring for good in 1972.