ANNEX B.
DSR 11
Registry No.
SI CURITY CLASSIFICATION
Top Secret,
Secret.
Confidential.
Restricted.
Unclassified.
PRIVACY MARKING
1
DRAFT
To:
STAFF....... In Confidence ACHILLES SIMEON PAPADOPOULOS MVO MBE
Type 1 +
from
Telephone No. Ext.
Department
Mr Papadopoulos was born on 12 August 1923 in Cyprus and entered
Cyprus Government service after completing his secondary
education in Cyprus.
In 1943 he was sent from there to service in Eritrea.
He was
In
there for 10 years rising from Chief Clerk to Assistant
Political Secretary and Personal Assistant to the Chief
Administrator. From 1953 to 1958 he reverted to the Cyprus
Government working both in the Secretariat and in the districts
concentrating latterly on press work in the Secretariat.
1958 he was brought out to London because of the troubles and
in 1959 was sent out to Tanganyika in the HMOCS. He served
as Assistant Secretary in the Office of the Chief Secretary and
subsequently as Deputy Controller of Information Services.
From 1961 to 1964 he served in Malta as Director of British
Information Services and subsequently transferred into the
Diplomatic Service. From 1965 he spent 3 years in Nairobi,
again on information work, before being brought home to London
for three years in the Foreign Office's UN (Political) Depart-
ment. From 1971 to 1974 he served as First Secretary and
Head of Chancery in Colombo. He was then briefly Counsellor
(Information) in Washington and then for three years Counsellor
and Head of Chancery in Havana.
Since 1977 he has been HM
Ambassador in San Salvador.
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