Leonard Hooper
Sir Leonard James (Joe) Hooper {{postnominals|country=GBR|KCMG|CBE}} (23 July 1914 – 19 February 1994) was director of the British signals intelligence agency, GCHQ, a post he held from 1965 to 1973.
Career
Educated at Alleyn's School in South East London and Worcester College, Oxford,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zYAXAAAAQBAJ&q=sir+leonard+hooper&pg=PA247|title=The A to Z of British Intelligence|page=247|isbn=9780810870284|accessdate=26 December 2013|last1=West|first1=Nigel|date=2 September 2009|publisher=Scarecrow Press }} Hooper joined the Government Code and Cypher School in August 1938, and was based at Bletchley Park during World War II.{{cite ODNB|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/55031 |title=Michael Herman, Hooper, Sir Leonard James (1914-1994), intelligence officer and civil servant, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004 |date= 2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/55031 |accessdate=2014-03-25 |last1=Herman |first1=Michael }} He stayed on with the organisation after the war, which became GCHQ, and, after five years as deputy director, served as its director from January 1965 to November 1973.
In the mid-1970s he served as the Intelligence Co-ordinator in the Cabinet Office, where he acted as a general overseer of the UK Intelligence Community.
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Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Category:Directors of the Government Communications Headquarters
Category:Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
Category:Bletchley Park people
Category:Alumni of Worcester College, Oxford
Category:People educated at Alleyn's School
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