Person
Richard Dearlove
Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in 2002; "C" in the Downing Street memo.
Connections 2
worked at
- Secret Intelligence Service 2002 Chief Primary record 1
involved in
- Prime Minister's Iraq meeting, 23 July 2002 "C": reported on his talks in Washington; later challenged the word "fixed" Primary record 1
Timeline 1 date
- 2002 Richard Dearlove worked at Secret Intelligence Service
Proof 1 source
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The Report of the Iraq Inquiry (Chilcot), Volume II, HC 265-II (section 3.3, Development of UK strategy and options, April to July 2002), The Iraq Inquiry, Report of a Committee of Privy Counsellors, 6 Jul 2016.
Primary record
He proposed Mr Brown, Mr Straw, Sir Richard Wilson, Sir Richard Dearlove, Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), Mr John Scarlett, Chairman of the JIC, and Lord Goldsmith should attend.
Sir Richard Dearlove reported that there was “a perceptible shift in attitude” in Washington: “Military action was now seen as inevitable.”
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