Profiles in intelligence: an interview with Tony Comer

Introduction

Until August 2020, Martin Anthony ‘Tony’ Comer was the first publicly avowed Departmental Historian of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the UK’s cyber and signals intelligence agency. His career at GCHQ spanned thirty-seven years, both operationally and, from 2009, as the eighth Departmental Historian (‘the best job in GCHQ…