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UK Intelligence Agencies

                   

What were Marriott bombers trying to achieve?

independent.co.uk
Sep 22, 2008
        

Analysis by Anne Penketh: The Madrid effect, al-Qa'ida and US strategy in Pakistan Monday, 22 September 2008 Nigel Inkster, the former assistant director of MI6, told me last week, two days before the murderous bombing...

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Lucy Mangan on the spy who came unstuck on national TV

guardian.co.uk
Sep 22, 2008
        

The first operational intelligence officer ever to go before a TV camera to explain the vital role the security services play in protecting our fair nation came literally unstuck with an interview to be screened on the...

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MI6 agent's moustache falls off during TV interview

theregister.co.uk
Sep 22, 2008 1 related
        

Wicket sticky, stiff upper lip less so The first ever British spy to purposely appear as such on TV had his false moustache fall off during filming, it has been revealed. The Telegraph reports today on the embarrassing...

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Media Monkey: Le Carré letter lands Liddle in hot water

guardian.co.uk
Sep 22, 2008
        

Great front-page scoop by Rod Liddle in the Sunday Times a couple of weeks ago. The "startling secret" that the novelist John le Carré considered defecting to the Soviets when he worked for MI6 was gleefully plundered...

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Sky Viewers Pay For Noel Edmonds’ GCHQ

anorak.co.uk
Sep 19, 2008 6 related
        

NOEL Edmonds has taken time out from his conversations with God to say he’d rather got to jail than pay his TV licence fee. (Says one viewer of Deal Or No Deal: “Dead Anroak, I did not know that - 100% of FACT - One in...

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Britain needs school for spies, says thinktank

guardian.co.uk
Sep 18, 2008
        

Britain needs a "school for spies" to prevent a repeat of such scandals as the Iraqi weapons fiasco, a leading thinktank said yesterday. A "staff college" should also be set up to keep spooks on their toes. The suggestion...

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telegraph.co.uk: Twenty-eight people died in the attack on the Northern Irish market town of Omagh telegraph.co.uk

Brown orders review of Omagh bombing case (ABC)

yahoo.com
Sep 17, 2008 23 related
        

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has ordered a review of intelligence material from the Omagh bombing after it was revealed that some vital information might have been overlooked. The 1998 Real IRA attack killed 29...

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Families seek Omagh intelligence records: The Irish Times - Gerry Moriarty

nuzhound.com
Sep 17, 2008 1 related
        

GERRY MORIARTY, Northern Editor LAWYERS REPRESENTING relatives of the Omagh bomb victims are to press Britain's special security intelligence monitoring agency GCHQ to release all information it had about the Real IRA...

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Graduate opportunities

prospects.ac.uk
Sep 16, 2008
        

GCHQ.South West Englandit’s an interesting world Get under the skin of it One of the UK’s intelligence services, GCHQ’s role is to gather and analyse intelligence which helps shape Britain’s response to global events. In...

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msn.com: Inside the terror plot that 'rivaled 9/11 msn.com

Inside the terror plot that 'rivaled 9/11'

msn.com
Sep 15, 2008 1 related
        

In one of the most significant terrorism cases since 9/11, a British jury last week convicted three British citizens, accused of plotting to blow up trans-Atlantic airliners, on a charge of conspiracy to murder. The plot,...

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