Leonard Hooper

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,^[1] Hooper joined the Government Code and Cypher School in August 1938, and was based at Bletchley Park during World War II.^[2] 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.^[2]

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.^[2]

References

^ West, Nigel (2 September 2009). The A to Z of British Intelligence. Scarecrow Press. p. 247. ISBN 9780810870284. Retrieved 26 December 2013.
^ ^a ^b ^c 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.)

Government offices
Preceded by Sir Clive Loehnis	Director of GCHQ January 1965 – November 1973	Succeeded by Sir Arthur Bonsall

This article about a cryptographer is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[1] West, Nigel (2 September 2009). The A to Z of British Intelligence. Scarecrow Press. p. 247. ISBN 9780810870284. Retrieved 26 December 2013.

[odnb-2] 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.)

[1]

[2]