George Ronald Richards

Police officer and deputy director-general of the Australian Security Intelligence Organization Date Of Birth : 1905-11-27T00:00:00Z Date Of Death : 1985-09-25T00:00:00Z

George Ronald Richards (27 November 1905 – 25 September 1985) was a British-born Australian police officer and intelligence operative. In 1953 he was closely involved in Operation Cabin 12, arranging the defection of Vladimir Petrov from the Soviet Union to Australia. In 1954, he was appointed Deputy Director-General of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), roughly equivalent to the FBI and MI5. He received the Order of the British Empire in 1957.

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