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Born in Toronto, Bill attended Victoria College at the University of Toronto (B.A.), Harvard University (A.M.), St. Catherine’s College, Oxford (B. Litt.) and was a fellow of Nuffield College. He served with the RCNVR 1944-45, joining the Department of External Affairs in 1950 where he had a distinguished career serving in Venezuela, Argentina, India, Great Britain and, as High Commissioner to Jamaica, Belize and Bahamas. Less well known, even among his peers, was the considerable contribution he made to Canada’s intelligence and security activities over a number of years. He was an acknowledged expert in the abstruse, difficult arts of communications and signals intelligence and in applying those skills to the conduct of Canada’s international relations.
He was the External Affairs intelligence liaison officer in London in the late 1960s and Director General Bureau of Intelligence Analysis and Security, Ottawa from 1978-83, then becoming an Assistant Undersecretary of State for External Affairs. Because of his warm personality, intellectual integrity and wide interests he was admired and liked by all who worked with him, including many non-Canadians.
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