Michael Hanley

Sir Michael Bowen Hanley KCB (24 February 1918 – 1 January 2001) was Director General (DG) of MI5, the United Kingdom's internal security service, from 1972 to 1978.


Michael Hanley

KCB
Born24 February 1918
Died1 January 2001(2001-01-01) (aged 82)
NationalityBritish
Alma materQueen's College, Oxford
OccupationIntelligence officer
Spouse(s)Lorna Hanley
AwardsKCB
Espionage activity
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service branchMI5
RankDirector General of MI5

Career

Educated at Sedbergh School and Queen's College, Oxford where he read History, Hanley served in the Royal Artillery during World War II and was subsequently posted to the Joint Allied Intelligence Centre in Budapest.[1] He rose through the grades to be Deputy Director General of MI5.[2] He was Director General from 1972 to 1978.[3]

gollark: Well, I paid £100 for the primary server node™.
gollark: I could buy ten osmarks.tk™ server nodes™ with that!
gollark: Even my dirt-cheap phone has an octacore SoC, and while it has half the clockrate of my laptop's CPU and uses some old ARM cores, newer phone CPUs go up to *ten* cores for some reason, can (very briefly, I assume) reach 3GHz, and have better IPC.
gollark: Unless you really like gaming on your phone for some reason, but stop doing that. Or unless you need really good cameras, but there are comparatively cheap ones with good-enough ones.
gollark: yes.

References

  1. Obituary: Sir Michael Hanley Guardian, 6 January 2001
  2. The Defence of the Realm, by Christopher Andrew, Page 548, Published by Allen Lane, 2009, ISBN 978-0-7139-9885-6
  3. Andrew, Page 853
Government offices
Preceded by
Sir Martin Furnival Jones
Director General of MI5
1972 - 1978
Succeeded by
Sir Howard Smith


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