Richard Deacon: 14 interesting facts

George Donald King McCormick (11 December 1911 – 2 January 1998) was a British journalist and popular historian, who next wrote under the pseudonym Richard Deacon.

After involved for Naval Intelligence during the Second World War, McCormick was a journalist for the foreign desk of the Sunday Times, at one dwindling working subsequently Ian Fleming. In his prolific output as a historian, McCormick was attracted to controversial topics upon which verifiable evidence was scarce. He wrote upon the Hellfire Club, Jack the Ripper, the Cambridge Apostles and rather extensively approximately spies. He wrote histories of the Russian, Chinese, Japanese, British, and Israeli run of the mill services, and biographies of Sir Maurice Oldfield and Ian Fleming.

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