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Reginald Victor Jones was born on September 29, 1911, in Herne Hill, South London. He was the son of Harold Victor and Alice Margaret (May) Jones.
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This text is Jones's account of his part in British Scientific Intelligence between 1939 and 1949.
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Reginald Jones was nothing less than a genius. And his appointment to the Intelligence Section of Britain's Air Ministry in 1939 led to some of the most astonishing scientific and technological breakthroughs of the Second World War.
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Drawing on his long experience in intelligence the author examines the ethical problems that intelligence activity can create.
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Reginald Victor Jones was born on September 29, 1911, in Herne Hill, South London. He was the son of Harold Victor and Alice Margaret (May) Jones.
Jones was educated at Alleyn's School, Dulwich and Wadham College, Oxford where he studied Natural Sciences. In 1932 he graduated with First Class honours in physics and then completed his doctorate in 1934. Subsequently he took up a Skynner Senior Studentship in Astronomy at Balliol College, Oxford.
In 1936 Jones took up the post at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, a part of the Air Ministry. Here he worked on the problems associated with defending Britain from an air attack. In September 1939, the British decided to assign a scientist to the Intelligence section of the Air Ministry. No scientist had previously worked for an intelligence service. Jones quickly rose to become assistant director of intelligence (science) there.
He was briefly based at Bletchley Park in September 1939, but returned to London (Broadway) in November, leaving behind a small specialized team in Hut 3, who reported any decrypts of scientific or technical nature to "ADI Science".
After his wartime service, Jones joined the faculty of Aberdeen University in Scotland in 1946 as the professor of natural philosophy. He retired in 1981 and was awarded emeritus status. He did not want to stay in Intelligence under the proposed postwar reorganisation. During his time at Aberdeen, much of his attention was devoted to improving the sensitivity of scientific instruments such as seismometers, capacitance micrometres, microbarographs and optical levers.
Jones has been hailed as the Allies' secret weapon of World War II. While serving as the assistant director of intelligence for the British Air Ministry from 1939 to 1946, Jones developed electronic devices used in thwarting Nazi bombing raids during the war by jamming communications and radar equipment with electronic gibberish.
In 1981, Jones delivered the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures on From Magna Carta to Microchip.
His autobiography, Most Secret War: British Scientific Intelligence 1939–1945, formed the basis, pre-publication, of the BBC One TV documentary series "The Secret War", first aired on 5 January 1977 and narrated by William Woollard, in which Jones was the principal interviewee.
In 1993 Jones was the first recipient of the R. V. Jones Intelligence Award, which the CIA created in his honour.
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Jones was the president of the Crabtree Foundation and Active European Convention of Human Rights. He was also a governor at Dulwich College from 1965 to 1979 and life governor at Haileybury College.
Jones was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1965. In 1981, he became a founding member of the World Cultural Council.
Reginald Jones had a disconcerting habit of usually being in the right, as well as displaying admirable manners when he was in the wrong - as of course he sometimes was.
Physical Characteristics: Reginald Jones was a large man, broad-shouldered and over six feet tall, with a strong voice when he cared to raise it.
Jones married Vera Cain in 1940 – they had two daughters, Susan and Rosemary, and a son, Robert.
