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Graham Russell Mitchell OBE, CB (1905 – 1984), was the deputy director general of MI5, the British Security Service, between 1956 and 1963. In 1963 Roger Hollis, the MI5 director general, authorised the secret investigation of Mitchell following suspicions within the Secret Intelligence Service MI6 that he was a Soviet agent. It is now thought unlikely that he ever was a "mole". == Personal life == Graham Mitchell, the eldest child of Alfred Sherrington Mitchell, a captain in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, and Sibyl Gemma Mitchell, née Heathcote, was born on 4 November 1905 in Kenilworth, Warwickshire. He attended Winchester College and Magdalen College, Oxford to read politics, philosophy, and economics. As a child he had poliomyelitis which left him with a pronounced limp but he nevertheless went on to become an accomplished golfer and he sailed for Oxford University. In lawn tennis he was a partner in the men's doubles winning team of the Queen's Club Championships in 1930. He represented Great Britain at correspondence chess and was at one time ranked fifth in the world. In 1934 he married Eleonora Patricia Robertson (1909 – 1993), daughter of James Marshall Robertson, and the couple had two children. After graduation in 1927 Mitchell was briefly a journalist for the ''Illustrated London News'' in 1935 before joining the research department of Conservative Central Office, led by Sir Joseph Ball. The "research department" was actually an intelligence service which had infiltrated Labour Party Headquarters. Unfit for military service because of his polio, he joined the MI5 in November 1939. Nigel West suggests that it was Ball's influence that enabled him to be accepted into that organisation – Ball himself had been in MI5 until 1927 and was later appointed to the highly secret home defence security executive. He was awarded the OBE in 1951 and Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1957. Long after his early retirement from MI5, Mitchell died on 19 November 1984. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Graham Russell Mitchell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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