Deacon, Richard, 1911-1998
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Name (Hebrew)
דיקון, ריצ'רד, 1911-1998
Name (Latin)
Deacon, Richard, 1911-1998
Other forms of name
Digen, Lichade, 1911-1998
McCormick, George Donald King, 1911-
דיקון, ריצ'רד
Date of birth
1911
Date of death
1998
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- His Islands for sale, 1949 i.e. 1950.
- His Spyfiction, 1990:CIP t.p (Donald McCormick) data sheet (b. 1911) info. from pub. (Donald McCormick also writes under the name of Richard Deacon)
- Wikipedia, viewed 13 January 2026:Donald McCormick (George Donald King McCormick (11 December 1911 - 2 January 1998) was a British journalist and popular historian, who also wrote under the pseudonym Richard Deacon.After working for Naval Intelligence during the Second World War, McCormick was a journalist for the foreign desk of the Sunday Times, at one point working with Ian Fleming. In his prolific output as a historian, McCormick was attracted to controversial topics on which verifiable evidence was scarce. He wrote on the Hellfire Club, Jack the Ripper, the Cambridge Apostles and rather extensively about spies. He wrote histories of the Russian, Chinese, Japanese, British, and Israeli secret services, and biographies of Sir Maurice Oldfield and Ian Fleming.)
- Zhen xiang da bai, 2002:pref. (Lichade Digen)
- Author and book info WWW site, 16 Feb., 2010((George) Donald (King) McCormick (also wrote as Richard Deacon); b. Dec. 9 1911; d. 1998, Hastings, Sussex, England)