Graham Russell Mitchell, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Graham Russell Mitchell

British MI5 officer

Date of Birth: 04-Nov-1905

Place of Birth: Kenilworth, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 19-Nov-1984

Profession: chess player, correspondence chess player

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Graham Russell Mitchell OBE, CB (1905–1984), was an officer of MI5, the British Security Service, between 1939 and 1963, serving as its deputy director general between 1956 and 1963.
In 1963 Roger Hollis, the MI5 director general, authorised the secret investigation of Mitchell following suspicions within the Secret Intelligence Service MI6 that he was a Soviet agent.
It is now thought unlikely that Mitchell ever was a "mole".
Mitchell was an International Master of correspondence chess who represented Great Britain.