James Adams (UK journalist)

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James Adams is a former journalist with the Sunday Times, well known for acting as a conduit for official and intelligence leaks.

He was involved in the controversy over the Sunday Times's reporting of the killings in Gibraltar in March 1988, in which three unarmed Irish Republican Army (IRA) members were shot dead by undercover members of the Special Air Service (SAS).

James Adams is the Chief Executive Officer of United Press International. Formerly the Washington Bureau Chief, managing editor, and defense correspondent for the London Sunday Times, he has reported on American politics and international relations, with special interest in terrorism and intelligence, and is also the author of twelve previous books, both fiction and nonfiction. He lives in Cabin John, Maryland.[1]

In 2001 he published an article in the May/June issue of Foreign Affairs, the journal of the Council on Foreign Relations. The introduction to the article describes him as Co-founder and Chairman of iDefense, a cyber-intelligence and risk-management firm, and as serving on the National Security Agency Advisory Board.[2]

Notes

  1. Author Biography in Review of James Adams, Next World War Computers Are the Weapons, Powell's Books website, accessed 22 Sept 2009
  2. James Adams, Virtual Defense, Foreign Affairs, May/June 2001, accessed 22 Sept 2009