Eliza Manningham-Buller - Revision history

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Tom Griffin: /* MI5 career */

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MI5 career

Josh Leeson at 13:31, 25 November 2014

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Tom Griffin: /* External Resources */

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External Resources

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Melissa Jones: name in bold

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name in bold

Tom Griffin: Iraq Inquiry

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Iraq Inquiry

Tom Griffin: /* Pat Finucane case */

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Pat Finucane case

Tom Griffin: /* Director General */

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Director General

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	'''Eliza Manningham-Buller''' was Director General of the [[Security Service]] from 2002 to 2007.<ref>[http://www.mi5.gov.uk/output/former-dgs.html#emb Former Directors General], MI5, accessed 19 July 2009.</ref>		'''Eliza Manningham-Buller''' was Director General of the [[Security Service]] from 2002 to 2007.<ref>[http://www.mi5.gov.uk/output/former-dgs.html#emb Former Directors General], MI5, accessed 19 July 2009.</ref>

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	'''Eliza Manningham-Buller''' was Director General of the [[Security Service]] from 2002 to 2007.<ref>[http://www.mi5.gov.uk/output/former-dgs.html#emb Former Directors General], MI5, accessed 19 July 2009.</ref>		'''Eliza Manningham-Buller''' was Director General of the [[Security Service]] from 2002 to 2007.<ref>[http://www.mi5.gov.uk/output/former-dgs.html#emb Former Directors General], MI5, accessed 19 July 2009.</ref>

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 ==MI5 career==
-Manningham-Buller was recruited into MI5 at cocktail party in Chelsea in 1974, a time when women were still marginalised in the service and confined to transcribing telephone intercepts.<ref>Mark Hollingsworth and Nick Fielding, Defending the Realm: Inside MI5 and The War On Terrorism, Andre Deutsch, 2003, p.289.</ref>
+Manningham-Buller was recruited into MI5 at a cocktail party in Chelsea in 1974, a time when women were still marginalised in the service and confined to transcribing telephone intercepts.<ref>Mark Hollingsworth and Nick Fielding, Defending the Realm: Inside MI5 and The War On Terrorism, Andre Deutsch, 2003, p.289.</ref>
 ===Soviet section===

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	*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12770153 UK should talk to al-Qaeda, says former head of MI5], BBC News, 21 March 2011.		*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12770153 UK should talk to al-Qaeda, says former head of MI5], BBC News, 21 March 2011.

		+	==Revolving Door==
		+	*Governor, [[The Wellcome Trust]], September 2008. Given "unconditional approval" by [[ACOBA]] to take up the role.<ref> [http://acoba.independent.gov.uk/media/16510/acobatenthreport2008_2009.pdf Tenth Report 2008-2009] ''Advisory Committee on Business Appointments'', accessed 25 November 2014 </ref>

	===Notes===		===Notes===

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 *History Commons [http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=eliza_manningham_buller_1 Profile: Eliza Manningham-Buller]
 *They Work For You [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/peer/baroness_manningham-buller Baroness Manningham-Buller]
 ===Notes===

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 In 1988, she became head of MI5's Middle East section, in which role she was involved in the Lockerbie investigation.<ref>Mark Hollingsworth and Nick Fielding, Defending the Realm: Inside MI5 and The War On Terrorism, Andre Deutsch, 2003, p.289.</ref>
-===US liason===
+===US liaison===
 Manningham-Buller was next posted to Washington DC as liaison officer, exchanging intelligence with the [[FBI]] and the [[CIA]]. While there she met her husband, university lecturer [[David Mallock]].<ref>Mark Hollingsworth and Nick Fielding, Defending the Realm: Inside MI5 and The War On Terrorism, Andre Deutsch, 2003, p.289.</ref> According to the ''Independent'' Mallock was "a lecturer in moral philosophy and an Irish Catholic who once held strong left-wing views. He did not find out until they married what her job was."<ref>Paul Vallely, [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/eliza-manninghambuller-spying-dame-423814.html Eliza Manningham-Buller: Spying dame], The Independent, 11 November 2006.</ref>
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 :: "In those circumstances, no inquiries were made of Algerian liaison about the precise circumstances that attended their questioning of Meguerba.
-::"In any event, questioning of Algerian liaison about their methods of questioning detainees would almost certainly have been rebuffed and at the same time would have damaged the relationship to the detriment of our ability to counter international terrorism."<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4363254.stm MI5's 'torture' evidence revealed], BBC News, 21 october 2005.</ref>
+::"In any event, questioning of Algerian liaison about their methods of questioning detainees would almost certainly have been rebuffed and at the same time would have damaged the relationship to the detriment of our ability to counter international terrorism."<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4363254.stm MI5's 'torture' evidence revealed], BBC News, 21 October 2005.</ref>
 Manningham-Buller's testimony, in a case about the admissibility of evidence from detainees who may have been mistreated, was widely interpreted as condoning torture.<ref>Emily Rueben, [http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/the%20price%20of%20freedom/111745 The price of freedom?], Channel 4 News, 17 October 2005.</ref><ref>David Sanderson, [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article581127.ece Torture valid as it saves lives, says MI5], The Times, 21 October 2005.</ref>

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-Eliza Manningham-Buller was Director General of the [[Security Service]] from 2002 to 2007.<ref>[http://www.mi5.gov.uk/output/former-dgs.html#emb Former Directors General], MI5, accessed 19 July 2009.</ref>
+'''Eliza Manningham-Buller''' was Director General of the [[Security Service]] from 2002 to 2007.<ref>[http://www.mi5.gov.uk/output/former-dgs.html#emb Former Directors General], MI5, accessed 19 July 2009.</ref>
 ==Background==

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 ===World Trade Center Attacks===
 Manningham-Buller flew to Washington to liaise with US authorities the day after the World Trade Center attacks. She also participated in a subsequent security review which led to a ring of concrete around Parliament.<ref>Paul Vallely, [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/eliza-manninghambuller-spying-dame-423814.html Eliza Manningham-Buller: Spying dame], The Independent, 11 November 2006.</ref>
 ==Director General==
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 It was reported in January 2003 that Manningham-Buller had told ministers "that she cannot be sure that she knows the identities of more than 50 per cent of the people in the UK who might carry out a terrorist attack" linked to [[Al-Qaeda]].<ref>James Biltz and Jimmy Burns, [http://www.jimmy-burns.com/pages/journalism_01/journalism_01_item.asp?journalism_01ID=81 A resolute spy who prefers to stay out in the cold], Financial Times, 11 January 2003, accessed via jimmy-burns-com, 19 July 2009.</ref>
 ===Wood Green raid===
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 ==House of Lords==
 In a lecture at the House of Lords in March 2010, Manningham-Buller claimed that she had wondered in 2002 and 2003 how the US was able to obtain intelligence from [[Khalid Sheikh Mohammed]], and that the Americans had concealed their use of torture techniques such as waterboarding from the British.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8558958.stm Ex-MI5 chief says US 'concealed suspect mistreatment'], BBC, 20 March 2010.</ref>
 ==External Resources==
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 [[Category: spooks|Manningham-Buller, Eliza]]
 [[Category: MI5|Manningham-Buller, Eliza]]
-[[Category: House of Lords|Manningham-Buller, Eliza]]
+[[Category: House of Lords|Manningham-Buller, Eliza]][[Category: Iraq Inquiry witnesses|Manningham-Buller, Eliza]]

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 Manningham-Buller's testimony, in a case about the admissibility of evidence from detainees who may have been mistreated, was widely interpreted as condoning torture.<ref>Emily Rueben, [http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/the%20price%20of%20freedom/111745 The price of freedom?], Channel 4 News, 17 October 2005.</ref><ref>David Sanderson, [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article581127.ece Torture valid as it saves lives, says MI5], The Times, 21 October 2005.</ref>
-==Pat Finucane case==
+===Pat Finucane case===
 A June 2005 cable by the US ambassador in Dublin, featured an account of by US envoy [[Mitchell Reiss]] of a meeting with Manningham-Buller:
 ::The Taoiseach raised the Finucane case, as did every other GOI official with whom Reiss met. Reiss briefed him on his talks in London, including with the head of MI5, who committed to turning over all evidence her agency has to the inquiry, but she was adamant that the inquiry will proceed using the new legislation. Reiss noted his concern that the Finucane case will become an irritant in Irish relations with the UK and get in the way of a deal.<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/33538 US embassy cables: MI5 prepared to hand over files on Pat Finucane murder], guardian.co.uk, 12 December 2010.</ref>

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	Manningham-Buller's testimony, in a case about the admissibility of evidence from detainees who may have been mistreated, was widely interpreted as condoning torture.<ref>Emily Rueben, [http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/the%20price%20of%20freedom/111745 The price of freedom?], Channel 4 News, 17 October 2005.</ref><ref>David Sanderson, [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article581127.ece Torture valid as it saves lives, says MI5], The Times, 21 October 2005.</ref>		Manningham-Buller's testimony, in a case about the admissibility of evidence from detainees who may have been mistreated, was widely interpreted as condoning torture.<ref>Emily Rueben, [http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/the%20price%20of%20freedom/111745 The price of freedom?], Channel 4 News, 17 October 2005.</ref><ref>David Sanderson, [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article581127.ece Torture valid as it saves lives, says MI5], The Times, 21 October 2005.</ref>
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		+	==Pat Finucane case==
		+	A June 2005 cable by the US ambassador in Dublin, featured an account of by US envoy [[Mitchell Reiss]] of a meeting with Manningham-Buller:
		+	::The Taoiseach raised the Finucane case, as did every other GOI official with whom Reiss met. Reiss briefed him on his talks in London, including with the head of MI5, who committed to turning over all evidence her agency has to the inquiry, but she was adamant that the inquiry will proceed using the new legislation. Reiss noted his concern that the Finucane case will become an irritant in Irish relations with the UK and get in the way of a deal.<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/33538 US embassy cables: MI5 prepared to hand over files on Pat Finucane murder], guardian.co.uk, 12 December 2010.</ref>

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