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Sir John Killick GCMG (18 November 1919 – 12 February 2004) was a British diplomat who was ambassador in Moscow at a difficult time, later ambassador to NATO. Sir John Killick, successively Ambassador to the Soviet Union and to Nato, was a distinguished member of that generation of British diplomats who joined the Foreign Office straight from long and varied wartime service in the Armed Forces. As such his whole active life was shaped by the need to confront dictators: Hitler during the war and a succession of Soviet leaders during the uneasy peace that followed. CareerJohn Edward Killick was educated at Latymer Upper School, University College, London, and Bonn University. He served in the British Army during World War II, first in the Suffolk Regiment, and later in the 1st Airborne Division in which he commanded the 89th Field Security Section (Intelligence Corps) at Arnhem. He was captured by the Germans, and after release in 1945 he commanded the intelligence corps unit at Siegen. Kilick joined the Foreign Office in 1946 and served with the Allied High Commission in Germany 1948–51, at Berlin, Frankfurt and Bonn. He was private secretary to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office 1951–54, served at the embassy in Addis Ababa 1954–57, then attended the Canadian National Defence College (then located with the Canadian Land Forces Command and Staff College) 1957–58. He served in the Western European department at the Foreign Office 1958–62, attended the Imperial Defence College 1962–63, then was Head of Chancery at the embassy in Washington, D.C., 1963–68, and Assistant Under-Secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) 1968–71. Killick was appointed Ambassador at Moscow in September 1971.[1] Shortly after he arrived, the British government expelled 90 Russian intelligence officers,[2] and Killick had to deal with the difficult Anglo-Soviet relations that followed. He returned to London 1973–75 as deputy to the Permanent Under-Secretary at the FCO, Sir Thomas Brimelow, and also Britain's Permanent Representative on the Council of the Western European Union. He was Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council (the governing body of NATO) 1975–79. Killick was appointed CMG in the New Year Honours of 1966,[3] knighted KCMG in the Queen's Birthday Honours of 1971[4] and raised to GCMG in the Birthday Honours of 1979.[5] References
1. ^{{London Gazette |issue=45588 |page=1282 |date=1 February 1972}} {{S-start}}{{S-dip}}{{s-bef |before=Sir Duncan Wilson}}{{S-ttl |title=Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Moscow |years=1971–1973}}{{S-aft |after=Sir Terence Garvey}}{{s-bef |before=Sir Edward Peck}}{{S-ttl |title=Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council |years=1975–1979 }}{{S-aft |after=Sir Clive Rose}}{{S-end}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Killick, John Edward}}2. ^[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/sep/27/britain-expels-90-soviet-spies Britain expels 90 Russian diplomat spies], The Guardian, London, 25 September 1971 3. ^{{London Gazette |issue=43854 |supp=y |page=4 |date=1 January 1966}} 4. ^{{London Gazette |issue=45384 |supp=y |page=5959 |date=12 June 1971}} 5. ^{{London Gazette |issue=47869 |supp=y |page=2 |date=16 June 1979}} 9 : 1919 births|2004 deaths|People educated at Latymer Upper School|Alumni of University College London|University of Bonn alumni|British Army personnel of World War II|Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to the Soviet Union|Permanent Representatives of the United Kingdom to NATO|Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George |
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