The intelligence that led to the Iraq War came from a single source. After the war the Intelligence case collapsed. Newsnight: Iraq War Intelligence Probed, BBC 2008
One by one in the months after the war Curveball’s claims were publicly discredited. ibid.
MI6 told the CIA in 2002: ‘elements of [Curveball’s] behaviour strike us as typical of individuals we would normally assess as fabricators’. ibid.
In the House of Lords the government finally lost its global battle to ban Spycatcher. Panorama: Spycatcher, BBC 1988
A plot against the Labour government under Harold Wilson. ibid.
Harold Wilson first came to MI5’s attention at 31 when he became Secretary to the Board of Trade in Clement Atlee’s post-war government … A succession of business trips by Wilson to the Soviet Union fuelled the suspicion of a few MI5 officers. ibid.
Ten years ago the Iraq War began: we were told it was necessary to get rid of Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction – WMDs. Tony Blair assured us the intelligence was beyond doubt. In fact, it was anything but ... British and American intelligence got it so wrong. Panorama: The Spies Who Fooled the World, BBC 2013
Curveball – the codename of American Intelligence’s best source. ibid.
To the White House Curveball underpinned their case, but doubts were growing. ibid.
The second spy who fooled the world – an Iraqi defector from Saddam's intelligence service who made his way to Jordan. ibid.
The intelligence was never that certain ... There were no WMDs. ibid.
Was an Iraqi cabbie the source of the dodgy dossier? MPs’ report claims ‘intelligence’ on Saddam’s WMDs came from the back of a taxi. Daily Mail online article 8th December 2009
The intelligence picture they paint is one accumulated over the last four years. It is extensive, detailed and authoritative. Tony Blair 24th September 2002, recalled House of Commons to launch the dirty dossier
There has been a real concern on our part not to exaggerate the intelligence that we get. Tony Blair, House of Commons
We were struck by the relative thinness of the intelligence base. Lord Butler’s Inquiry into Intelligence that led to war
We were overburdened with intelligence that was pretty well more than we could cope with. Eliza Manningham-Buller, MI5 chief, evidence to Iraq Enquiry
We were asked to put in some low-grade small intelligence to [the dossier] and we refused because we didn’t think it was reliable. Eliza Manningham-Buller
The CIA concluded that America’s closest ally in the region could no longer be trusted. Pakistan’s Intelligence Service the ISI was playing a double game. Afghanistan: War Without End? BBC 2011
In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential. Gijs de Vries
1951 ... A ring of double-agents who are to become known as the Cambridge Five. Crimes that Shook Britain
Two British civil servants Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess suddenly disappeared ... As a member of the Intelligence Service Philby had access not only to secret British anti-Soviet operations but also covert CIA activities. ibid.
It took four decades for the rest of the Five to become known. ibid.
British MI6 has been a major vehicle for the Satanic hierarchy working behind the secret veil of freemasonry. Labyrinth of Truth, 2000
It may be a revelation to many people that the global drug trade is controlled and run by the intelligence agencies. As intelligence insiders know, MI5 and MI6 control many of the other intelligence agencies in the world (CIA, MOSAD etc.) James Casbolt, former MI6 agent
Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behaviour. Julian Assange
You can’t come forward against the world’s most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk. Edward Snowden
It did not take Dawood long to choose a new product ... and started trafficking in drugs, chiefly in heroin bound for the European market and Mandrax for South Africa. And in Dawood’s part of the world, if you want to guarantee the success of a narcotics business, there is only one organisation you need to cosy up to – the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan’s secret service. Misha Glenny, McMafia
The gang wars of Bombay that exploded with renewed violence in the 1990s were in a part a conflict between the intelligence agencies of India and Pakistan, ensuring that they were even more dangerous and unpredictable than hitherto. ibid.
Jane, I work for a new organisation seeking young women like yourself to train on a career in the civil service. We’re what you might call progressive. Predestination 2014 starring Ethan Hawke & Sarah Snook & Monique Heath & Olivia Sprague & Noah Taylor & Madeleine West & Christopher Kirby & Freya Stafford & Jim Knobeloch & Christopher Stollery & Tyler Coppin & Rob Jenkins et al, directors Michael & Peter Spierig, recruiter
It’s re-shaping wrong-doings … Finding people who are special … For people with exception abilities … You see the work we do is complicated. ibid.
For almost a decade I was a member of our country’s most secret intelligence organization, which worked so deep in shadow that only a handful of people even knew of our existence. The agency’s work was to police our country’s intelligence community, to act as the covert world’s internal affairs department. To that extent, you might say, we were a throwback to the Middle Ages. We were the rat-catchers. Terry Hayes, I Am Pilgrim
I have little choice but to conclude that some of the intelligence related to Iraq’s nuclear weapons program was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat. Joseph Wilson, The New York Times article
The United States knows that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction. Any country on the face of the Earth with an active intelligence program knows Iraq has weapons of mass destruction. Donald Rumsfeld
In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort and sanctuary to terrorists including al Qaeda members. Hillary Clinton 10th October 2002
The facts and the intelligence were being fixed around the policy by the Bush administration. Sir Richard Dearlove, MI6, attributed Cabinet meeting statement
That intelligence was good sound intelligence. George W Bush
Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraqi regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised. George W Bush
It’s time for security services of the world to unite. Spectre 2015 starring Daniel Craig & Lea Seydoux & Christolph Waltz & Naomie Harris & Andrew Scott & Ralph Fiennes & Monica Bellucci & Ben Whishaw & Jesper Christensen et al, director Sam Mendes, Tokyo conference
MI6’s involvement in commercial espionage, which is on the up … ‘MI6 can pay bribes … MI6 exists by bribing people’. Mark Thomas Comedy Product: Secret Map of Britain, Channel 4 2002
British Airways have a link with MI6. ibid.
From an MI5 document … Flight Pan Am 103: the Lockerbie flight: In 1995 an American Intelligence summary written three months before the bombing was released under the US Freedom of Information Act. It warned of a terrorist attack and specifically mentioned Pan Am as a likely target. ibid.
Right. We shall start. Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy s1e1 starring Alec Guinness & Michael Jayston & Anthony Bate & Bernard Hepton & Terence Rigby & Michael Aldridge & Ian Richardson & Alexander Knox & George Sewell, meeting, BBC 1979
We have a mole, Jim. Very near the top. One of the top five. ibid. old geezer
... and George Smiley, my devoted deputy: beggar man. ibid.
Control never died at all. He’s been seen in South Africa. ibid. Roddy and Smiley at dinner
They’ve put me in charge of scalphunters. ibid. mole-hunter & Smiley in jam-jar
Control always preached that good intelligence work is gradual and rests on a kind of gentleness. ibid. Smiley to mole-hunter