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in Washington, D.C., to visit Arlington Hall, the headquarters of the
U.S. Army’s Signal Security Agency to negotiate what was to be-
come the UKUSA Agreement. In 1960 he was appointed deputy di-
rector, and five years later succeededSir Clive Loehnisas director,
a post he held until he went to theCabinet Officein 1973 for five
years asintelligence coordinator to the Cabinet.HOPE, SIR PETER.Born in 1912 and educated at the University of
London and Cambridge, Peter Hope joined the Territorial Army in
1938 and was recruited to work for theSecret Intelligence Service
(SIS) in Germany. On the outbreak of war, he transferred toMI5to
serve as aregional security liaison officerand then worked as an
interrogator at theRoyal Victoria Patriotic School. In 1944 he was
dispatched to Paris, where he tracked down the notorious traitorHar-
old Cole. Hope moved back to SIS in 1946, and then became a regu-
lar diplomat in 1950, concluding a distinguished career as
ambassador to Mexico in 1972. He devoted much of his retirement
to the affairs of the Order of Malta.
HOPKINSON, HENRY.After Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge,
Henry Hopkinson joined the Foreign Office in 1924 and had a con-
ventional career as a diplomat until 1939, when he was appointed
private secretary to Sir Alexander Cadogan, the permanent undersec-
retary, and was introduced toStewart Menziesand theSecret Intel-
ligence Service(SIS). Hopkinson acted as Cadogan’s liaison with
SIS and in 1941 was posted toCairo, where he chaired the Middle
East Intelligence Centre. There he was joined by his wife Alice, who
worked asDudley Clarke’s secretary. In 1943 Hopkinson trans-
ferred to Lisbon, where he randeceptioncampaigns against the
enemy, before going to Italy in 1944 for two years as deputy high
commissioner.
In 1946 Hopkinson resigned from the Foreign Office to join the
Conservative Research Department, being elected the MP for Taun-
ton in 1950. He was elevated to the House of Lords in 1956 as Baron
Colyton of Tarway and Taunton and published his memoirs,Occa-
sion, Chance, and Change, in 1993.
HOR LUNG.A senior member of the Communist Party of Malaya,
Hor Lungdefectedto the British in April 1957 and supplied enough