Malcolm Mackintosh
John Malcolm Mackintosh, CMG, known as Malcolm Mackintosh, (25 December 1921 – 20 November 2011) was an intelligence analyst, civil servant, historian, Sovietologist, and author. Early life and war service Mackintosh's father was dean of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He attended St. Mary's School, Melrose, Mill Hill School and Edinburgh Academy. At the outbreak of World War II in 1939 he was a first year student at Glasgow University when he was called up for officer training. Posted initially to Cairo, he was given parachute training in Palestine before being parachuted into Yugoslavia to join Tito's partisans as a member of the Special Operations Executive. In 1944 he was based in Sofia, acting as liaison officer to the Soviet forces occupying Bulgaria, and as a member of the Allied Control Commission. While in Sofia he met his wife, Lena Grafova, daughter of a White Russian exile; the couple married in 1946. Post-war years Returning to the UK in 1946, Mackintosh resumed his studies at Glasgow, graduating with a first class degree in History and Russian in 1948. For the next 12 years he worked as a programme organiser in the BBC Overseas Service's Bulgarian and Albanian