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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Paul Martin''' <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">was </del>head of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Public Affairs </del>at [[MI5]] <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">from 1996 to 2000.<ref name="Wintour060400">Patrick Wintour, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2000/apr/06/uk.politicalnews Mowlam recruits MI5 spin doctor], ''The Guardian'', 6 April 2000</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"></ref></del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Paul Martin''' <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">is the director of security for Parliament and the former </ins>head of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">public affairs </ins>at [[MI5]].</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Martin was <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a lecturer in behaviouralism </del>at <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Cambridge </del>University<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, prior </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">joining MI5 </del>in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1988</del>.<ref name="<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Wintour060400</del>"><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Patrick Wintour, </del>[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">http</del>://<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">www.guardian</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">co</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">uk</del>/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">politics</del>/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">2000</del>/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">apr</del>/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">06</del>/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">uk.politicalnews Mowlam recruits MI5 spin doctor</del>], <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''The Guardian'', 6 April 2000</del>.</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">==Career==</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">After graduating from [[Cambridge University]], </ins>Martin was <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">appointed Harkness Fellow and postdoctoral scholar </ins>at <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[Stanford </ins>University<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] in 1982. He 1983 went back </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Cambridge as a junior lecturer </ins>in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">behavioural biology</ins>.<ref name="<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">LI</ins>"> <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Linkedin </ins>[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">https</ins>://<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">uk</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">linkedin</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">com</ins>/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">pub</ins>/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">paul-martin-cbe</ins>/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">18</ins>/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">5b2</ins>/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">832 Paul Martin CBE</ins>], <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">accessed 26 May 2015</ins>.</ref></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In 1988 Martin joined [[MI5]] and was appointed head of public affairs in 1996. In 2000 he was appointed director of communications at the [[Cabinet Office]], the link between Downing Street and departments of governments. He assisted former minister [[Mo Mowlam]] as her media minder.<ref name="PW"> Patrick Wintour [http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2000/apr/06/uk.politicalnews Mowlam recruits MI5 spin doctor] ''The Guardian'', 6 April 2000, 26 May 2015.</ref> Other roles included leading national security preparations for the 2012 London Olympics.</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In February 2013 Martin joined the Houses of Parliament as the director of security. He was initially hired after concerns over foreign agents penetrating Parliament's computer system. Because of Parliament's status as a Royal Palace rather than a Government department it does not automatically receive the same level of computer protection as Whitehall so is considered the weak link by the security services.<ref> Glen Owen [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2290952/MPs-hire-spy-protect-emails-Chinese-hackers-Panic-Commons-amid-fears-cyberagents.html MPs hire top spy to protect emails from Chinese hackers: 'Panic' in the Commons amid fears over cyberagents] ''Daily Mail'', 10 March 2012, accessed 26 March 2015.</ref></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In May 2015, Martin's role led to the House of Common's serjeant at arms, [[Lawrence Ward]], quitting his role. Ward was unhappy at Martin working in Parliament but retaining his security services pass and briefing the country's most senior spooks, believing it to be a breach of the centuries-old principle that a sovereign parliament should be independent from all arms of the government.<ref> Glen Ward and Martin Beckford [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3094427/Serjeant-Arms-quits-MI5-s-honeytrap-hunter-Commons-MPs-fear-house-spook-spying-emails-agent-says-s-female-spies.html Serjeant at Arms quits over MI5's 'honeytrap hunter' in Commons: MPs fear in-house spook is spying on their emails, but agent says he's there to keep out female spies] ''Daily Mail'', 24 May 2015, accessed 26 May 2015.</ref></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">==MI5==</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The ''Guardian'' reported that Martin undertook the full range of M15 work, including fieldwork mainly in the Middle East, but did not serve in Northern Ireland:</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The ''Guardian'' reported that Martin undertook the full range of M15 work, including fieldwork mainly in the Middle East, but did not serve in Northern Ireland:</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>::Under his direction, M15 crept into the light, if not quite the world of open government: setting up a website, announcing a phone number, and putting more of its old files in the public record office. Mr Martin also encouraged the director general, [[Stephen Lander]], to hold discreet lunchtime briefings at M15's headquarters, accompanied by copious amounts of white wines from the Loire valley.<ref name="<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Wintour060400</del>"><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Patrick Wintour, </del>[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2000/apr/06/uk.politicalnews Mowlam recruits </del>MI5 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">spin doctor</del>]<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, ''The Guardian'', 6 April 2000</del>.</<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">ref</del>> </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>::Under his direction, M15 crept into the light, if not quite the world of open government: setting up a website, announcing a phone number, and putting more of its old files in the public record office. Mr Martin also encouraged the director general, [[Stephen Lander]], to hold discreet lunchtime briefings at M15's headquarters, accompanied by copious amounts of white wines from the Loire valley.<ref name="<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">PW</ins>"<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">/</ins>></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">His work also involved attempting to suppress the revelations of dissident former [</ins>[MI5]<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] officer [[David Shayler]]</ins>.<<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">ref name="PW"</ins>/></div></td></tr>
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David
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David at 21:17, 5 August 2013
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David
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David: David moved page Paul Martin (MI5) to Paul Martin (ex-MI5)
2013-08-05T21:16:18Z
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David
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Tom Griffin: typos
2012-08-17T13:58:01Z
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The ''Guardian'' reported that Martin undertook the full range of M15 work, including fieldwork mainly in the Middle East, but did not serve in Northern Ireland:</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The ''Guardian'' reported that Martin undertook the full range of M15 work, including fieldwork mainly in the Middle East, but did not serve in Northern Ireland:</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>::Under his direction, M15 crept into the light, if not quite the world of open government: setting up a website, announcing a phone number, and putting more of its old files in the public record office. Mr Martin also encouraged the director general, [[Stephen Lander]], to hold discreet lunchtime briefings at M15's headquarters, accompanied by copious amounts of white wines from the Loire valley.<ref name="Wintour060400>Patrick Wintour, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2000/apr/06/uk.politicalnews Mowlam recruits MI5 spin doctor], ''The Guardian'', 6 April 2000.</ref> </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>::Under his direction, M15 crept into the light, if not quite the world of open government: setting up a website, announcing a phone number, and putting more of its old files in the public record office. Mr Martin also encouraged the director general, [[Stephen Lander]], to hold discreet lunchtime briefings at M15's headquarters, accompanied by copious amounts of white wines from the Loire valley.<ref name="Wintour060400<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">"</ins>>Patrick Wintour, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2000/apr/06/uk.politicalnews Mowlam recruits MI5 spin doctor], ''The Guardian'', 6 April 2000.</ref> </div></td></tr>
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Tom Griffin
https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Paul_Martin_(ex-MI5)&diff=174182&oldid=prev
Tom Griffin: started a page
2012-08-17T13:57:10Z
<p>started a page</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Paul Martin''' was head of Public Affairs at [[MI5]] from 1996 to 2000.<ref name="Wintour060400>Patrick Wintour, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2000/apr/06/uk.politicalnews Mowlam recruits MI5 spin doctor], ''The Guardian'', 6 April 2000.</ref><br />
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Martin was a lecturer in behaviouralism at Cambridge University, prior to joining MI5 in 1988.<ref name="Wintour060400>Patrick Wintour, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2000/apr/06/uk.politicalnews Mowlam recruits MI5 spin doctor], ''The Guardian'', 6 April 2000.</ref><br />
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The ''Guardian'' reported that Martin undertook the full range of M15 work, including fieldwork mainly in the Middle East, but did not serve in Northern Ireland:<br />
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::Under his direction, M15 crept into the light, if not quite the world of open government: setting up a website, announcing a phone number, and putting more of its old files in the public record office. Mr Martin also encouraged the director general, [[Stephen Lander]], to hold discreet lunchtime briefings at M15's headquarters, accompanied by copious amounts of white wines from the Loire valley.<ref name="Wintour060400>Patrick Wintour, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2000/apr/06/uk.politicalnews Mowlam recruits MI5 spin doctor], ''The Guardian'', 6 April 2000.</ref> <br />
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His work also involved attempting to suppress the revelations of dissident former [[MI5]] officer [[David Shayler]].<ref name="Wintour060400>Patrick Wintour, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2000/apr/06/uk.politicalnews Mowlam recruits MI5 spin doctor], ''The Guardian'', 6 April 2000.</ref><br />
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In 2000, Martin was appointed as the director of communications at the [[Cabinet Office]].<ref name="Wintour060400>Patrick Wintour, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2000/apr/06/uk.politicalnews Mowlam recruits MI5 spin doctor], ''The Guardian'', 6 April 2000.</ref><br />
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[[Category:MI5|Martin, Paul]][[Category:Civil Servants|Martin, Paul]]</div>
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