Howard Smith (diplomat)
Sir Howard Frank Trayton Smith, was a British diplomat.Career
Educated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, Smith worked at Bletchley Park during World War II and later became the British ambassador to Moscow. At college in Cambridge, Smith was a contemporary of Asa Briggs, playing chess with him and recommending Briggs to fellow Cambridge mathematician Gordon Welchman for service in Hut 6.
In 1978 Smith was unexpectedly appointed Director General of MI5, the United Kingdom's internal security service, by Prime Minister James Callaghan, serving until 1981.
