Lieutenant General Sir John Paul Foley, KCB, OBE, MC, DL (born 22 April 1939) is a retired British Army officer with a long career in military intelligence.
[3] He was later Director of General Intelligence, which involved ensuring intelligence provision in the theatre of war and making assessments for government ministers at the time of the Gulf War in 1990,[4] and became Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong in 1992, before being named Chief of Defence Intelligence in 1994.
[1] In October 1999, he replaced Sir William Rous as Chairman of the British Greyhound Racing Board but resigned just six months later.
[5] In 2000, he was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey, and served in that post for five years before retiring to his native Herefordshire.
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