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,<ref>{{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 }}</ref> Hooper joined the Government Code and Cypher School in August 1938, and was based at Bletchley Park during World War II.<ref name="odnb">{{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 }}</ref> 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.<ref name="odnb"/>

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.<ref name="odnb"/>

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{{s-start}} {{S-gov}} {{succession box | before= Sir Clive Loehnis | title=Director of GCHQ | years= January 1965 – November 1973| after= Sir Arthur Bonsall | }} {{s-end}}

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