DEARLOVE, SIR RICHARD• 139DEAKIN, SIR WILLIAM.Educated at Westminster and Christ
Church, Oxford, Bill Deakin joined the Queen’s Own Oxfordshire
Hussars in 1939 and was transferred toSpecial Operations Execu-
tivein 1940. In May 1943 he led the first British military mission to
aid Tito inYugoslaviaand at the end of the war was appointed to the
British embassy in Belgrade. A year later he was back at Oxford as
a research fellow. There Deakin was appointed warden of St. An-
tony’s, a post he kept until his retirement in 1968. In 1964 he wrote
The Case of Richard Sorge, and in 1971 he gave an account of his
wartime adventures in Yugoslavia inThe Embattled Mountain.
DEAN, SIR PATRICK.Chairman of theJoint Intelligence Commit-
teeduring the Suez Crisis in 1956, Pat Dean participated in the co-
vert negotiations with the French and Israelis at Se`vres prior to the
invasion of Egypt. He was later appointed British ambassador to the
United Nations and then ambassador in Washington, D.C. In 1972
Dean served onLord Franks’s inquiry into Section 2 of theOfficial
Secrets Act.
DEARDEN, HAROLD.One of the leading psychiatrists of his era, Dr.
Harold Dearden was appointedMI5’s principal interrogator atCamp
020 and used his skills to persuade some of the most committed
Nazis to work asdouble agents. A keen amateur photographer,
Dearden took pictures of the bomb damage to the perimeter of Latch-
mere House after a Luftwaffe air raid and recordedKarel Richter’s
return to Hertfordshire to recover his parachute.
Born in 1882, Dearden went up to Gonville and Caius College,
Cambridge, in 1900 to read medicine, and then to Guys to train and
set up in private practice as a physician and psychologist. During
World War I he joined the Grenadier Guards as medical officer and
was wounded and invalided out during battle of the Somme. Between
the wars, Dearden worked as a playwright and freelance journalist
until he was invited to advise the Security Service. He married in
1944 and after the war retired to Hay-on-Wye, where he died in 1961.
DEARLOVE, SIR RICHARD.Chief of theSecret Intelligence Ser-
vice(SIS) from August 1999 to June 2004, Richard Dearlove had
beenDavid Spedding’s director of operations for the previous six