HARE, ALAN• 231the board of his family’s bank. When he died in August 1963, he had
his daughter destroy all his secret papers.HANLEY, SIR MICHAEL. Director-general of the Security Ser-
vicefrom 1972 to 1978, Michael ‘‘Jumbo’’ Hanley had joinedMI5
in 1948. He was educated at Sedbergh and Queen’s College, Oxford,
where he read history. In 1940 he was commissioned into the Royal
Artillery and in 1945 took a Russian language course before being
posted to Budapest as an assistant military attache ́. Upon joining MI5
he worked on a study of therote kapelleand in 1951 was posted
to Hong Kong assecurity liaison officerfor five years.
HANSLOPE PARK.Established in 1940 as a wireless receiving sta-
tion forSection VIIIof theSecret Intelligence Service(SIS), desig-
nated Special Communications Unit 3, Hanslope Park in
Bedfordshire absorbed the Radio Security Service in 1945 and be-
came the postwar headquarters of theDiplomatic Wireless Service.
It also accommodated a technical unit developing specialist equip-
ment forMI5and SIS. In 1952 MI5 identified a young Soviet spy
working at Hanslope,William Marshall, who had been recruited
following a tour of duty at the British embassy in Moscow.
HARE, ALAN.The fourth Earl of Listowel’s fourth son, Alan Hare
served with the Life Guards in North Africa and saw action at El
Alamein. In October 1943, he parachuted into northernAlbaniafor
Special Operations Executive, losing a toe to frostbite and winning
a Military Cross. He endured appalling conditions while his mission
was under German attack during the grim Balkan winter of 1943–44,
his senior officer, Brigadier ‘‘Trotsky’’ Davies, having been
wounded and captured. Hare remained fighting with the Albanian
guerrillas until he was evacuated by boat to Bari in October 1944.
Afterward, he undertook very similar missions for theSecret Intelli-
gence Service, in which he remained until 1961 when he joined In-
dustrial and Foreign Fairs, an organization setting up trade fairs
overseas, with a special emphasis on the Soviet Bloc. Hare joined the
Financial Timesin 1963, becoming its managing director eight years
later. He was appointed a director of theEconomistin 1975 and a
trustee ofReuter’s News Agencyin 1985. He died 10 years later,
aged 76.