Peter Marychurch
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Sir Peter Marychurch KCMG (born 13 June 1927[1]) is a former director of the British signals intelligence agency, GCHQ, a post he held from 1983 to 1989. He has also served as the chairman of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music from 1994 to 2000.[2][3]
Marychurch lends his name to the "Sir Peter Marychurch award", an honour given annually for work in international cryptology.
According to the memoirs of a former MI5 intelligence officer, in the 1960s, Marychurch, then a young GCHQ cryptanalyst, applied computerised cluster analysis to the problem of traffic analysis of espionage traffic.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20020613/ai_n12613013
- ^ http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20060613/ai_n16475077
- ^ http://www.abrsm.org/resources/annualReviews/annual_review_2000.pdf
- ^ Peter Wright, Spycatcher, p. 153, 1987
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Preceded by Sir Brian Tovey |
Director of GCHQ 1983 - 1989 |
Succeeded by Sir John Adye |