Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Alan Fyffe KBE CB DSO MC (12 August 1912 – 24 December 1972) was Deputy Chief of Defence Staff (Intelligence).

Fyffe was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) in August 1932.

[1] [2] He served in World War II initially as a General Staff Officer and then with his regiment in North Africa and Italy.

[5] He temporarily commanded 61st Infantry Brigade early in 1945,[6] and on 3 May 1945 he went blindfolded behind enemy lines to negotiate the surrender of a German corps.

[1] He was appointed Deputy Military Secretary at the War Office in 1957 and Brigadier commanding the Army Air Corps in 1960.