Cecil Egerton Dixon (21 July 1903 — 3 March 1973) was a Scottish first-class cricketer and an officer in the Intelligence Corps during the Second World War.
[2] Dixon played first-class cricket for Hampshire in the 1926 County Championship, making two appearances against Gloucestershire at Southampton and Derbyshire at Chesterfield.
[5] During the Second World War, Dixon was an emergency commission with the rank of second lieutenant, being appointed into the Intelligence Corps.
[7] His early war service saw him appointed by MI5 to be the Regional Security Liaison Officer at Cambridge, where he was involved with the apprehension of several German spies who had parachuted into Britain.
Following the war, Dixon established the Security Intelligence Far East in 1946, serving as its head before passing its leadership onto Malcolm Johnson of MI5.