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Christopher Curwen
Sir Christopher Keith Curwen, (9 April 1929 – 18 December 2013) was a British Intelligence officer specialising in South East Asia who was Head of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) from 1985 to 1989.
Curwen was educated at Sherborne School and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge after which he was commissioned into the 4th Queen's Own Hussars in 1948, serving in Malaya.〔(Burke's Peerage and Gentry )〕 He joined SIS in 1952 and was posted to Thailand in 1954 and Vientiane, Laos in 1956. He returned to the service's London headquarters in 1958, had another spell in Bangkok from 1961 and then two years in Kuala Lumpur.
Curwen spent three years as SIS liaison officer in Washington D.C. from 1968 and was then head of station in Geneva.〔''MI6 - 50 years of Special Operations'', by Stephen Dorril, Page 753, Harper Collins, 2001, ISBN 1-85702-701-9〕 He was deputy to Sir Colin Figures from 1980 and succeeded him as Chief of the Service in 1985.〔(Cloaked Dagger )〕 His tenure was notable for the successful exfiltration from Moscow of the KGB officer and British agent Oleg Gordievsky.〔(Obituary: Sir Christopher Curwen ) Daily Telegraph, 24 December 2013〕
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