Clive Loehnis (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sir Clive Loehnis KCMG (24 August 1902 - 23 May 1992) is a former director of the British signals intelligence agency, GCHQ, a post he held from 1960 to 1964. Loehnis was born in 1902 in Chelsea, London. His father, Herman Loehnis, was born in New York, but had become a naturalised British citizen and became a barrister. Clive Loehnis attended Lockers Park School and then joined the Royal Navy, graduating from the Royal Naval College, Osbourne, the Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth, and the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. He became qualified in signals in 1928 and left the Navy in 1935. In 1938 he returned to the Signals Division of the Admiralty, where he earned the silver oak leaves of a commander before retiring in 1942 and going into the Naval Intelligence Division. When he was demobilised after the war, he joined GCHQ, at that time a semi-covert division of the Foreign Office.