News you may have missed #0211
December 8, 2009 Leave a comment
- Peru identifies handler of Victor Ariza Mendoza spy ring. Peruvian authorities have identified Victor Vergara Rojas as the Chilean handler of Peruvian Air Force officer Victor Ariza Mendoza, who was arrested in Lima last month on charges of spying for Chile.
- Burmese junta tries officials for leaking military secrets. Authorities in Rangoon have put to trial three men who allegedly leaked information on what has come to be known as Burma’s secret tunnel project. The junta reportedly began building the tunnels in 1996, to accommodate battalions of troops in the event of an invasion.
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Former MI6 head testifies in UK Iraq War commission
December 9, 2009 by intelNews 1 Comment
Sir John Scarlett
By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org |
Sir John Scarlett, who until recently headed MI6, Britain’s foremost external spy agency, chaired the country’s Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) in the run-up to the Iraq War. He was therefore in charge of an influential government report, produced in September 2002, which argued that Iraq’s supposed weapons of mass destruction constituted an immediate threat to Britain. As part of the official inquiry into Britain’s entry in the Iraq War, Sir John testified yesterday about the controversial report, known as ‘the dodgy dossier’, which has been criticized as a monumental intelligence failure that helped drag the country into an unpopular war. The former JIC chairman admitted that British intelligence services were aware before the War that Iraq had dismantled its long-range missiles and thus had no way of shooting its chemical munitions at distant targets, including Britain. Read more of this post
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