Howard Smith (diplomat)

Howard Smith (diplomat)

Sir Howard Frank Trayton Smith, KCMG (15 October 1919 – 7 May 1996) [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19960510/ai_n14053363/pg_2?tag=artBody;col1 Obituary in "The Independent"] ] was a British diplomat.

During World War II he worked at Bletchley Park, and later he became the British ambassador to Moscow [Derek Taunt, "Breaking German Naval Enigma", p. 111 in "Action this Day", edited by Ralph Erskine and Michael Smith, 2001, ISBN 0-593-04982-9.] . In 1979 he was unexpectedly appointed director general (DG) of MI5, the United Kingdom's internal security service, by James Callaghan, serving until 1981.

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