Colin McColl
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| Born | Colin Hugh McColl 1 July 1925 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 8 December 2006 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Head of MI6
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MI6 Career
Sir Colin McColl was chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) from November 1988[1] - September 1994.[2] The New York Times reported that he was named to head the Secret Intelligence Service in 1989 by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.[3]
On 2 September 1991, addressing new SIS recruits beginning their training course, McColl confidently assured them of plenty of "unpredictability and instability" in the post-Cold War era.[4]
Later Activities
Sir Colin McColl has put his experience in the field of international espionage and "national security" to use in a variety of institutions, both commercial and non-commercial. In 1994 he became "a consultant for Oxford Analytica, an international consulting firm, focusing on political and economic affairs."[5]
He was also a director of the Scottish American Investment Trust at some point, and was chairman of two charitable trusts involving education for disadvantaged children and assistance for foreign service retirees.[6][7]
In 1998 he became Advisory Board Member for the ManTech International Corporation (a multi-billion dollar "provider of technologies and solutions for mission-critical national security programs for the Intelligence Community, Departments of Defense, State, Homeland Security and Justice, and other United States federal government agencies").[5]
He was made an honorary fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford.
References
- ↑ Stephen Dorril, MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Touchstone, 2002, p.753.
- ↑ Team, Campbell Lutyens, accessed 26 July 2009.
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/07/world/the-secret-s-out-top-british-spy-identified.html
- ↑ http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/16912/1/WRAP_Aldrich_counter_terrorism_2009.pdf
- ↑ a b http://investor.mantech.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=950168-02-108&CIK=892537
- ↑ http://www.zoominfo.com/CachedPage/?archive_id=0&page_id=1727259602&page_url=//www.campbell-lutyens.com/Team/McColl.htm&page_last_updated=2007-03-20T11:13:58&firstName=Colin&lastName=McColl
- ↑ http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Colin-McColl/3327221
