Editing Colin Figures (section)

{{Short description|Chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service (1925–2006)}}
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{{Infobox spy
|honorific_prefix = [[Sir]]
|honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCMG|OBE}}
| name = Colin Figures
| image = File:Colin Figures.jpg
| caption =
| allegiance = United Kingdom [[File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|20px]]
| service = [[Secret Intelligence Service]] (SIS/MI6)
| serviceyears = 1951 &ndash; 1985
| rank = [[Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service]] 
| operation = [[Suez Crisis]]<br />[[Prague Spring]]<br /> [[Falklands War]] 
| awards = [[Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George]]<br />[[Officer of the Order of the British Empire]]
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1925|7|1|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Birmingham]], United Kingdom
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2006|12|8|1925|7|1|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Esher]], United Kingdom
| spouse = Pamela Ann Timmis
| parents = Frederick and Muriel Figures
| children = a son and two daughters 
| occupation = [[British intelligence]] officer
| alma_mater = [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]]
}}
'''Sir Colin Frederick Figures''' {{post-nominals|size=100%|KCMG|OBE}} (1 July 1925 &ndash; 8 December 2006) was Chief of the [[Secret Intelligence Service]] (known as MI6) from 1981 to 1985. During this time he had oversight of the supply of human intelligence information, including Argentine positions and their stocks of [[Exocet]] missiles, to the UK Government during the [[Falklands War]].<ref name=times/>