Dick Franks

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Dick Franks
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service Secret Intelligence Service (SIS/MI6)
Rank Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service
Award(s) KCMG

Born 13 July 1920
Hampstead
Died 12 October 2008 (aged 88)
Aldeburgh
Nationality British
Spouse Rachel Ward
Children One son, two daughters
Occupation Intelligence officer
Alma mater Queen's College, Oxford

Sir Arthur Temple "Dick" Franks KCMG (13 July 1920 – 12 October 2008) was Head of the British Secret Intelligence Service from 1979 to 1982.

Career

Educated at Rugby School and Queen's College, Oxford, Franks was commissioned into the Royal Corps of Signals in 1940.[1] He became an Intelligence officer in the Western Desert and then joined the Special Operations Executive.[1]

After the War he briefly worked for the Daily Mirror before joining the Secret Intelligence Service in 1946.[1] He became involved in Operation Boot, a plan to overthrow Mohammad Mosaddegh, the nationalistic Iranian Prime Minister in 1953.[1] He was posted to Bonn in 1962 and was promoted to Deputy Chief in 1977.[1] He was appointed Chief of the Service in 1978.[1]

He lived at Aldeburgh in Suffolk.[2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Obituary: Sir Dick Franks The Times, 20 October 2008
  2. Obituary: Sir Dick Franks The Independent, 30 October 2008

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Government offices
Preceded by Chief of the SIS
1979–1982
Succeeded by
Sir Colin Figures


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