George Frank Norman Reddaway CBE (2 May 1918 – 12 October 1999) was a British civil servant and diplomat.[1]
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The younger son of William Fiddian Reddaway (1872-1949), Professor of History at Cambridge University, Norman Reddaway attended King's College School,[2] Oundle School, and later gained a Double First in Modern Languages at Cambridge. He joined the British army as a private on the outbreak of war in 1939. He spent most of the wartime years with the GHQ Liaison Regiment, leaving in 1946 with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. In 1946, after serving with the Allied Control Commission, he joined the British Foreign Office.[3]
Under Under-Secretary of State Christopher Mayhew, Reddaway co-founded the Information Research Department (IRD), a secret Cold War propaganda department of the British Foreign Office.[4] Mayhew and Reddaway had served together in GHQ Liaison Regiment.
Reddaway was also instrumental in providing anti-Communist propaganda in Indonesia during the 30 September Movement. The Foreign Office gave Reddaway a budget of £100,000 and told him "to do anything [he] could do to get rid of Sukarno".[4] At the end of his career in the UK Foreign Office, he took charge of its information departments, which involved liaising with the BBC overseas services.[3]
From 1974 to 1978, Reddaway was British Ambassador to Poland.[3]
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Norman Reddaway's son David also became an ambassador.[1][5]
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