biography
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Hollis, Sir Roger Henry
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| lived:
| (1905–73)
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| biography:
| British civil servant. He studied at Oxford, and travelled extensively in China before joining the British counter-intelligence service MI5 in the late 1930s. He was appointed deputy director general in 1953 and director general (1956–65). His name came to public attention when Peter Wright, in Spycatcher (1987), argued that Hollis, with Blunt, Burgess, Maclean, and Philby, was a Soviet spy. |
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