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 | [[Cat Little]] || Cabinet Office Permanent Secretary (oversight board) || Current || GOV.UK
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 ==External links==

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 | (Current Director) || Director of JTAC || 2026–present || Not publicly named
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-| Dame [[Madeleine Alessandri || Chair, Joint Intelligence Committee (oversight board) || 2023–present || GOV.UK
+| Dame [[Madeleine Alessandri]] || Chair, Joint Intelligence Committee (oversight board) || 2023–present || GOV.UK
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 | [[Jonathan Powell]] || National Security Adviser (oversight) || 2024–present || GOV.UK

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 ! Name !! Role !! Period !! Source
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-| Suzanne Raine || Head of JTAC || January 2015 – September 2017 || King's College London profile
+| [[Suzanne Raine]] || Head of JTAC || January 2015 – September 2017 || King's College London profile
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 | (Current Director) || Director of JTAC || 2026–present || Not publicly named
 |-
-| Dame Madeleine Alessandri || Chair, Joint Intelligence Committee (oversight board) || 2023–present || GOV.UK
+| Dame [[Madeleine Alessandri || Chair, Joint Intelligence Committee (oversight board) || 2023–present || GOV.UK
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-| Jonathan Powell || National Security Adviser (oversight) || 2024–present || GOV.UK
+| [[Jonathan Powell]] || National Security Adviser (oversight) || 2024–present || GOV.UK
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-| Cat Little || Cabinet Office Permanent Secretary (oversight board) || Current || GOV.UK
+| [[Cat Little]] || Cabinet Office Permanent Secretary (oversight board) || Current || GOV.UK
 |}

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	An oversight board chaired by the Cabinet Office (typically involving the Chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee) monitors performance.<ref name="MI5JTAC" />		An oversight board chaired by the Cabinet Office (typically involving the Chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee) monitors performance.<ref name="MI5JTAC" />
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		+	{\| class="wikitable sortable"
		+	\|+ Officials associated with JTAC
		+	! Name !! Role !! Period !! Source
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		+	\| Suzanne Raine \|\| Head of JTAC \|\| January 2015 – September 2017 \|\| King's College London profile
		+	\|-
		+	\| (Current Director) \|\| Director of JTAC \|\| 2026–present \|\| Not publicly named
		+	\|-
		+	\| Dame Madeleine Alessandri \|\| Chair, Joint Intelligence Committee (oversight board) \|\| 2023–present \|\| GOV.UK
		+	\|-
		+	\| Jonathan Powell \|\| National Security Adviser (oversight) \|\| 2024–present \|\| GOV.UK
		+	\|-
		+	\| Cat Little \|\| Cabinet Office Permanent Secretary (oversight board) \|\| Current \|\| GOV.UK
		+	\|}
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	==External links==		==External links==

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 The '''Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre''' reports to the head of [[MI5]] although it is not formally part of the Security Service.  The MI5 website states:
 :The Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre, or JTAC, was created as the UK's centre for the analysis and assessment of international terrorism. It was established in June 2003 and is based in the Security Service's headquarters at Thames House in London.<ref>[http://www.mi5.gov.uk/output/joint-terrorism-analysis-centre.html Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre], MI5 website, accessed January 2009</ref>
 ==Spying on students==
 Vikram Dodd, writing in ''The Guardian'', reported in October 2006:
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 ::“Jack’s a bit too close to the MCB — he sometimes appears to suggest they are the only game in town. There is a concern that proximity to them may colour [his] judgment,” the insider said.<ref>David Leppard and Kevin Dowling, [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6860246.ece Jack Straw ‘too close’ to pro-Hamas faction],Sunday Times, 4 October 2009.</ref>
 ==Notes==
 <references/>
 [[Category:Terrorism Industry]][[Category:Spooks]][[Category:MI5]]

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 :"Key topics" include "radicalisation drivers and counterstrategies in each of the countries studied" and "future trends likely to increase/decrease radicalisation". ... John Gledhill, chair of the Association of Social Anthropologists, said: "This raises fundamental ethical issues. People feel that it smacks of the Cold War use of academics in counter-insurgency activities - essentially using academics as spies."<ref>Phil Baty, [http://www.thes.co.uk/story.aspx?story_id=2033290 Life-risking 'spy' plan pulled], Times Higher Education Supplement, 20 October 2006, accessed January 2009</ref>
-According to Dr David Miller of the University of Strathclyde, reporting for Spinwatch on a 2006 conference in Manchester entitled, "Is it time for a Critical Terrorism Studies?"<ref>[http://users.aber.ac.uk/mys/csrv/programme%20manchester%20conf%20with%20aims.pdf "Is it time for a Critical Terrorism Studies?"], 27–28 October 2006, accessed January 2009</ref>, discussion at the conference<ref>Reported by Dr David Miller, who was present at the conference</ref> indicated that the FCO/JTAC had originally approached at least one UK academic terrorism studies institute to give the money direct to a research team. But the institute concerned turned this overture down partly on the basis of ethical concerns about whether it was ‘research’ or intelligence gathering. JTAC then seems to have gone to the ESRC, with the results detailed above.<ref>David Miller, [http://www.spinwatch.org.uk/-articles-by-category-mainmenu-8/74-terror-spin/3625-terrorism-studies-and-the-war-on-dissent "Terrorism studies" and the war on dissent], Spinwatch, 7 November 2006, accessed January 2009</ref>
+According to Dr David Miller of the University of Strathclyde, reporting for Spinwatch on a 2006 conference in Manchester entitled, "Is it time for a Critical Terrorism Studies?"<ref>[http://users.aber.ac.uk/mys/csrv/programme%20manchester%20conf%20with%20aims.pdf "Is it time for a Critical Terrorism Studies?"], 27–28 October 2006, accessed January 2009</ref>, discussion at the conference<ref>David Miller, [http://www.spinwatch.org.uk/-articles-by-category-mainmenu-8/74-terror-spin/3625-terrorism-studies-and-the-war-on-dissent "Terrorism studies" and the war on dissent], Spinwatch, 7 November 2006, accessed January 2009</ref> indicated that the FCO/JTAC had originally approached at least one UK academic terrorism studies institute to give the money direct to a research team. But the institute concerned turned this overture down partly on the basis of ethical concerns about whether it was ‘research’ or intelligence gathering. JTAC then seems to have gone to the ESRC, with the results detailed above.<ref>David Miller, [http://www.spinwatch.org.uk/-articles-by-category-mainmenu-8/74-terror-spin/3625-terrorism-studies-and-the-war-on-dissent "Terrorism studies" and the war on dissent], Spinwatch, 7 November 2006, accessed January 2009</ref>
 Miller reports that a JTAC representative was at the conference and seems to have been surprised by the level of criticism of government from some participants. [[Julia Eastman]] was able to discuss her views in one to one sessions, but it seems that she had been banned by the Foreign Office – even under Chatham House rules – from speaking publicly at the conference.<ref>David Miller, [http://www.spinwatch.org.uk/-articles-by-category-mainmenu-8/74-terror-spin/3625-terrorism-studies-and-the-war-on-dissent "Terrorism studies" and the war on dissent], Spinwatch, 7 November 2006, accessed January 2009</ref>

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	Miller reports that a JTAC representative was at the conference and seems to have been surprised by the level of criticism of government from some participants. [[Julia Eastman]] was able to discuss her views in one to one sessions, but it seems that she had been banned by the Foreign Office – even under Chatham House rules – from speaking publicly at the conference.<ref>David Miller, [http://www.spinwatch.org.uk/-articles-by-category-mainmenu-8/74-terror-spin/3625-terrorism-studies-and-the-war-on-dissent "Terrorism studies" and the war on dissent], Spinwatch, 7 November 2006, accessed January 2009</ref>		Miller reports that a JTAC representative was at the conference and seems to have been surprised by the level of criticism of government from some participants. [[Julia Eastman]] was able to discuss her views in one to one sessions, but it seems that she had been banned by the Foreign Office – even under Chatham House rules – from speaking publicly at the conference.<ref>David Miller, [http://www.spinwatch.org.uk/-articles-by-category-mainmenu-8/74-terror-spin/3625-terrorism-studies-and-the-war-on-dissent "Terrorism studies" and the war on dissent], Spinwatch, 7 November 2006, accessed January 2009</ref>
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		+	==Blackburn report and Jack Straw==
		+	In August 2008, the Centre produced a report on Islamic extremism in Blackburn. The reported was highlighted in September 2009 by a 'security figure' briefing against Blackburn MP and Justice Secretary [[Jack Straw]] to the Sunday Times:
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		+	::A senior security figure who has seen the report said it underlined concern among cabinet colleagues that Straw could be “too close” to the [[Muslim Council of Britain]] (MCB), a prominent Muslim umbrella group. The government formally severed links with the group after a blazing row over extremism earlier this year.
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		+	::“Jack’s a bit too close to the MCB — he sometimes appears to suggest they are the only game in town. There is a concern that proximity to them may colour [his] judgment,” the insider said.<ref>David Leppard and Kevin Dowling, [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6860246.ece Jack Straw ‘too close’ to pro-Hamas faction],Sunday Times, 4 October 2009.</ref>

	==Notes==		==Notes==

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 :The Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre, or JTAC, was created as the UK's centre for the analysis and assessment of international terrorism. It was established in June 2003 and is based in the Security Service's headquarters at Thames House in London.<ref>[http://www.mi5.gov.uk/output/joint-terrorism-analysis-centre.html Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre], MI5 website, accessed January 2009</ref>
+==Spying on students==
 Vikram Dodd, writing in ''The Guardian'', reported in October 2006:
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 :gives five real-life examples of extremism in universities. The first talks of suspicious computer use by "Asian" students, [and] … it talks of students of "Asian appearance" being suspected extremists.<ref>Vikram Dodd, [http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,,1923325,00.html Universities urged to spy on Muslims], The Guardian, 16 October 2006, accessed January 2009</ref>
+==Sponsoring academic research==
 This approach is exemplified in the conduct of MI5’s [[Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre]] (JTAC). In 2006 the Centre came under fire for its attempts to fund a research initiative through the offices of the [[Economic and Social Research Council]] which would examine Muslim communities in Britain. According to the ''Times Higher Education Supplement'', the initiative

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 ''The Guardian'''s source was a Department of Education document. According to Dodd, the document suggests:
-:checks should be made on external speakers at Islamic society events: "The control of university or college Islamic societies by certain extremist individuals can play a significant role in the extent of Islamist extremism on campus.
+:checks should be made on external speakers at Islamic society events: "The control of university or college Islamic societies by certain extremist individuals can play a significant role in the extent of Islamist extremism on campus."
 The document, Dodd continues,