Patrick Walker

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Patrick Walker
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Sir Patrick Walker was the head of the Security Service MI5 from 1987 to 1992.[1]

Walker is an Oxford graduate.[2] He joined the Security Service in 1963 following a period of service in the pre-independence government of Uganda.[3] Walker was head of F3 during 1980.[4]

FX Director

Walker became Director FX Branch in 1984.[2]

Sir Desmond de Silva's Pat Finucane Review records that in February 1987, the head of the Force Research Unit, A/05 recorded that that officer G/02, the head of MI5's Northern Ireland agent-handling section, told him that "Patrick Walker, the then Head of Counter-Terrorism at the Security Service, was very angry about the FRU's actions" in re-recruiting Brian Nelson. This may have reflected MI5's own ambitions to recruit Nelson.[5]

Deputy Director-General

According to The Times, Walker served as Deputy Director General Operations before heading the service, and was succeeded in that post by Julian Faux in 1988.[6]

External resources

Notes

  1. Former Directors General, MI5, accessed 30 June 2009.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Christopher Andrew, Defence of the Realm, The Authorized History of MI5, Allen Lane, 2009, p.560.
  3. Former Directors General, MI5, accessed 30 June 2009.
  4. Christopher Andrew, Defence of the Realm, The Authorized History of MI5, Allen Lane, 2009, p.560.
  5. Sir Desmond de Silva, Volume 1 - Chapter 6: The recruitment of Brian Nelson, Pat Finucane Review, 12 December 2012.
  6. Julian Faux, CB, MI5 officer, died of cancer on July 6 aged 62. He was born on July 28, 1935, The Times, 23 July 1998.