Sir Peter Hope KCMG TD (29 May 1912 – 12 March 1999) was a British intelligence officer, later a diplomat, ambassador to Mexico.
[1] He was the son of George Leonard Nelson Hope and Honoria Mary Victoria Riddell.
[1] In 1938 he joined the Territorial Army where he was recruited by the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) to work in Germany.
[3] He joined the Royal Artillery in 1939, but was attached to MI6 and was involved with the formation of the Special Operations Executive.
In 1941 he transferred to MI5 and was posted to SHAEF in 1944 to track down British traitors, one of whom was Harold Cole who Hope arrested in 1945.