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Counter-terrorism spy to take over as MI5 director-general
Published: March 8 2007 02:00 A career spy with a track-record in international -counter-terrorism is to take over as the new head of MI5, the Home Office announced yesterday. Jonathan Evans, the security service’s deputy director-general, will next month succeed Dame Manningham-Buller who announced in December that she was retiring after serving four-and-half years. Mr Evans, aged 49, joined MI5 in 1980, working on counter-espionage operations during the last stages of the cold war. In the late 1980s and the 1990s, he worked as a senior MI5 officer in Irish-related …
