Cedric John Foley[1] MBE (7 March 1917 – 8 November 1974) was a British Army officer, author, broadcaster, and public relations specialist.
He spent five years as a military reporter and later served in the Directorate of Public Relations at the War Office.
On retiring from the Army, he continued in public relations, and became prominent as a consultant, being particularly concerned with the problems of American-owned businesses in Britain.
He was also a director of Campbell-Johnson Ltd. A man of wide interests, he was also known as a broadcaster and scriptwriter, and was military advisor to the popular ITV comedy show, The Army Game.
He is also the author of two screenplay novelisations, published in paperback as media tie-ins, which some sources erroneously list as original novels upon which the films were based, although each book cover states that it is "the book of the film", and cites its screenplay origins and authors.