Australian Dictionary of Biography

25 December, 1925
Albany, Western Australia, Australia

23 June, 1995 (aged 69)
Richmond, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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• Albany Primary School (WA) (student, ?-1938)
• Guildford Grammar School (WA) (student, 1938-1943)
• St George's College (University of Western Australia) (student, 1944-1948)
• University of Western Australia (student, 1944-1948)

• navy officer (1944-1946) Federal, Australia
• schoolteacher (1955-1957) Western Australia, Australia
• intelligence officer (1957-1985) Federal, Australia
• public servant (1957-1985) Federal, Australia
• public service head (1981-1985) Federal, Australia
• autobiographer/memoirist (1987-1988) Victoria, Australia

• World War II (navy officer)

• Officer of the Order of Australia (recipient, 1987)

• Royal Commission on Australian Security and Intelligence Agencies, 1983–84 (witness)
• Royal Commission on Intelligence and Security, 1974-77

• Scotch College (Perth) (schoolteacher, 1955-1957)
• Australian Secret Intelligence Service (intelligence officer, 1957-1976)
• ASIO (deputy director, 1976-1981)
• ASIO (director-general, 1981-1985)