John Clibborn
MI6 officer
About John Clibborn
Lived 1941 – 2017 (aged 76). John Clibborn was a British.
John Donovan Nelson Dalla Rosa Clibborn (24 November 1941 – 16 December 2017) was a British Intelligence Officer who served as MI6 head of station in Washington D.C. He was awarded the Central Intelligence Agency's Agency Seal Medal by deputy director George Tenet in 1995 and made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) by the British government in 1997.
Clibborn was educated at Downside School and Oriel College, Oxford, where he took a double-first in Classics. He joined the Secret Intelligence Service (which he described in his Who's Who entry as being HM Diplomatic Service) in 1965.
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Who was John Clibborn?
MI6 officer
When was John Clibborn born?
John Clibborn was born on 24 November 1941.
When did John Clibborn die?
John Clibborn died on 16 December 2017.
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John Clibborn was British.
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