Lord Trend dies
NZPA-AP London Lord Trend, the former Cabinet secretary who investigated allegations of a former intelligence chief spying for the Soviet Union, has died. He was 73.
Lord Trend died at his home in London after a short illness, said the office of the Prime Minister, Mrs Thatcher. Cabinet secretary from 1963 to 1973, Lord Trend served under four Prime Ministers — Harold Macmillan, Sir Alec DouglasHome, Harold Wilson and Edward Heath.
Sir Roger Hollis, who
died in 1973, was head of the MIS counter-espionage service from 1956 to 1965. Intelligence chiefs investigated him in 1970 after allegations he may have been a Soviet agent. In 1974, the year after
Hollis’s death, Lord Trend was called from retirement to reinvestigate the case. His findings were never made public. Peter Wright, a former senior MIS officer now living in retirement in Tasmania, investigated Hollis in the 1970 probe. He has said he is “99 per cent certain” that
Hollis was a Soviet spy.
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