Tom Griffin: DCI

2012-09-02T18:22:15Z

DCI

Tom Griffin: started a page

2012-09-02T16:52:33Z

started a page

New page

'''Stephen Lewis Rickard''' was an MI5 officer killed in the [[Mull of Kintyre Chinook crash]].<ref name="GuardianList">[http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2002/feb/06/lords.politics The 29 who died], ''The Guardian'', 6 February 2002.</ref>

Intelligence writer Stephen Dorril claims Rickard was the [[Director and Co-ordinator of Intelligence (Northern Ireland)]] at the time of his death.<ref>Stephen Dorril, ''Lobster95'', [http://www.8bitmode.com/rogerdog/lobster/lobster29.pdf Issue 29], p.14.</ref> However, Christopher Andrew's official history of [[MI5]] claims that [[John Deverell]] was DCI at the time of the crash. <ref>Christopher Andrew, ''The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5'', Allen Lane, 2009, p.785.</ref>

==Notes==
<references/>

[[Category:MI5|Rickard, Stephen]][[Category:Northern Ireland|Rickard, Stephen]][[Category:State Violence and Collusion Project|Rickard, Stephen]]

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 '''Stephen Lewis Rickard''' was an MI5 officer killed in the [[Mull of Kintyre Chinook crash]].<ref name="GuardianList">[http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2002/feb/06/lords.politics The 29 who died], ''The Guardian'', 6 February 2002.</ref>
-Intelligence writer Stephen Dorril claims Rickard was the [[Director and Co-ordinator of Intelligence (Northern Ireland)]] at the time of his death.<ref>Stephen Dorril, ''Lobster95'', [http://www.8bitmode.com/rogerdog/lobster/lobster29.pdf Issue 29], p.14.</ref> However, Christopher Andrew's official history of [[MI5]] claims that [[John Deverell]] was DCI at the time of the crash. <ref>Christopher Andrew, ''The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5'', Allen Lane, 2009, p.785.</ref>
+Intelligence writer Stephen Dorril claims Rickard was the [[Director and Co-ordinator of Intelligence (Northern Ireland)]] at the time of his death.<ref>Stephen Dorril, ''Lobster95'', [http://www.8bitmode.com/rogerdog/lobster/lobster29.pdf Issue 29], p.14.</ref> Christopher Andrew's official history of [[MI5]] appears to imply that [[John Deverell]] was DCI at the time of the crash, although this could be an ambiguous reference to an earlier post.<ref>Christopher Andrew, ''The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5'', Allen Lane, 2009, p.785.</ref> Other reports suggest that Deverell was a Deputy Director General of [[MI5]], which would appear to support Dorril's account.<ref>Sally Weale and Owen Boycott, CHINOOK DISASTER: COUNTING THE COST OF THE SENIOR FIGURES IN BATTLE AGAINST TERRORISM, ''Guardian'', 4 June 1994.</ref>
 ==Notes==

Stephen Rickard - Revision history

Tom Griffin: DCI

Tom Griffin: started a page