Sir Leonard James (Joe) Hooper KCMG CBE (23 July 1914 – 19 February 1994) was director of the British signals intelligence agency, GCHQ, a post he held from 1965 to 1973.
Career
Educated at Alleyn's School in South East London and Worcester College, Oxford, Hooper joined the Government Code and Cypher School in August 1938, and was based at Bletchley Park during World War II. He stayed on with the organisation after the war, which became GCHQ, and, after five years as deputy director, served as its director from January 1965 to November 1973.
In the mid-1970s he served as the Intelligence Co-ordinator in the Cabinet Office, where he acted as a general overseer of the UK Intelligence Community.
References
- West, Nigel (2 September 2009). The A to Z of British Intelligence. Scarecrow Press. p. 247. ISBN 9780810870284. Retrieved 26 December 2013.
- ^ Herman, Michael (2004). "Michael Herman, Hooper, Sir Leonard James (1914-1994), intelligence officer and civil servant, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/55031. Retrieved 2014-03-25. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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| Preceded bySir Clive Loehnis | Director of GCHQ January 1965 – November 1973 |
Succeeded bySir Arthur Bonsall |
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