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by the director-general of intelligence collection, a two-star military
appointment, responsible for managing theDefence Geographic
and Imagery Intelligence Agencyand theDefence Intelligence
and Security CentreatChicksands Priory.INTELLIGENCE COORDINATOR TO THE CABINET.Apost
originally created forSir Dick White, the retiring chief of theSecret
Intelligence Servicein 1968. Its holder liaises between the chairman
of theJoint Intelligence Committee(JIC), the Permanent Under-
Secretaries’ Committee, and the prime minister. Among the subse-
quent coordinators have beenLeonard Hooper(1973–78),Brooks
Richards(1978–80),Peter Wilkinson(1980–83),Antony Duff
(1983–85),Colin Figures(1985–89),Christopher Curwen(1989–
91),Gerald Warner(1993–95),John Alpass(1995–98), andPeter
Ricketts(2001–02). The post was briefly combined with that of
chairman of the JIC between 1983 and 1985 and again from 2000 to
2003 before Bill Jeffrey was appointed in 2005.
INTELLIGENCE CORPS.The British army regiment responsible for
the recruitment and training of personnel drawn from other branches
of the military, the Intelligence Corps had its origins in the Peninsula
Corps of Guidesraised in September 1808 and marched with Sir
John Moore to Salamanca. The modern regiment was founded in Au-
gust 1914 under Major T. G. Torrie and initially consisted of a Head-
quarters Wing, a Dismounted Section, a Mounted Section equipped
with horses borrowed from the Grafton Hunt, a Motor-Cycle Section,
and a Security Duties Section manned by detectives seconded from
Special Branch. In 1916 the familiar green staff tabs and hatbands
were introduced, and by the end of the war the unit amounted to
3,000 men, mostly based in Wiesbaden. In December 1929 the corps
was disbanded, only to be mobilized again in September 1939 for
service with the British Expeditionary Force in France.
The corps established a School of Military Intelligence at
Smedley’s Hydro, Matlock, Derbyshire, which remained operational
until 1946. It also shared the Corps of Military Police Depot at Myt-
chett in Surrey, where field security courses were given to noncom-
missioned officers. In January 1946 the decision was taken to keep
the Intelligence Corps as a reserve unit, and it became part of the