Frederick Allan Rowley

was an MI6 officer.^[1][2] He was the Director and Co-ordinator of Intelligence (Northern Ireland) (DCI) in 1972-3.^[3

Rowley was seconded to the Northern Ireland Office in 1972.^[1]

According to Christopher Andrew's authorised history of MI5, no sufficiently senior MI5 officer was willing to accept the post of Director and Co-ordinator of Intelligence when the post was created by Northern Ireland Secretary William Whitelaw in 1972:

The first DCI, appointed on 31 October, thus came from outside MI5. His Security Service successor remembers him as 'the right man really to establish the post': 'He was there for a year and he did it in tremendous style. He lived like a king, he entertained like a king, he used to drink with Willie [Whitelaw] all night.'^[4]

Rowley would seem to have been the first DCI referred to here. Andrew's account of the DCI's relationship with Whitelaw closely matches the account in Rowley's Times obituary.^[2] His MI5 successor was probably Denis Payne.

On 25 April 1973, Rowley and British Ambassador Sir Arthur Galsworthy had a secret meeting in Glencairn, Galsworthy's Dublin residence, with Patrick Donegan, the Irish Minister for Defence, and his Departmental Secretary.^[3]

According to the Times Rowley was seconded to the Northern Ireland Office until 1974, but other sources suggest he may have been replaced by Payne by mid-to-late 1973.^[2

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Malaysia

In 1967, Rowley became counsellor (Foreign Affairs) in Kuala Lumpur.^[1] He was became close to ministers and senior officers of the Malaysian police and special branch, and was awarded the equivalent of a knighthood for his advice in the wake of riots in 1969.^[2]

He Returned to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1971.^[1]