Chapter Twenty-Nine: Prime TimeRYAN was the four-letter name Dickie sent under the cryptonym of NOMITE and I found his full name, Randall Ryan Cavershall II, first recorded at GCHQ in May 1973, listed under the following account: vetted January at Oxford. Leading language graduate, honours and distinction, Russian dialect translator, attached to J Division. In 1977, following Geoffrey Prime's resignation from GCHQ over his dislike at delivering lectures about message analysing, Ryan was moved up to fill the gap Prime left in the J30 section of Special Sigint that dealt exclusively with Soviet intelligence.
Ryan became one of only three officers allowed into the vault at J Division, but unlike Prime he was not allowed to take documents home. There was yet another vacancy left open by Prime
