Peter Inge

l to r;Sir John Chilcot, Ann Taylor MP, Lord Butler of Brockwell (Chair), Michael Mates MP, Lord Inge

Peter Inge - or the Rt Hon Field Marshal The Lord Inge, KG, GCB, DL to give him his full title - was a member of the Butler Inquiry (Review of Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction). He was a career soldier in the British Army between 1956 and 1997. He then went on to work with the arms industry (BAe Systems) and as an advisor to the corporate spying firm Hakluyt and is chairman of the board of the mercenary company Aegis Defense Services.

Details

DATE OF BIRTH 5 August 1935 EDUCATED Summer Fields; Wrekin College

FURTHER EDUCATION RMA, Sandhurst MARITAL DETAILS Married Letitia Marion Beryl Thornton-Berry 1960 (2 daughters)

Armed Forces Career

• Army Officer 1956-97;
• Commissioned Green Howards 1956; Served Hong Kong, Malaya, Germany, Libya and UK;
• ADC to GOC, 4 Division 1960-61;
• Adjutant, 1 Green Howards 1963-64;
• Student, Staff College 1966;
• Ministry of Defence 1967-69;
• Company Commander, 1 Green Howards 1969-70;
• Student, Joint Services Staff College 1971;
• BM, 11 Armoured Brigade 1972;
• Instructor, Staff College 1973-74;
• CO, 1 Green Howards 1974-76;
• Commandant, Junior Division, Staff College 1977-79;
• Commander, Task Force C/4 Armoured Brigade 1980-81;
• Chief of Staff, HQ 1 (BR) Corps 1982-83;
• Colonel, The Green Howards 1982-94;
• GOC, NE District and Commander 2nd Infantry Division 1984-86;
• Director General, Logistic Policy (Army), Ministry of Defence 1986-87;
• Commander, 1st (Br) Corps 1987-89;
• Colonel Commandant, Royal Military Police 1987-92;
• Commander, Northern Army Group and C-in-C, BAOR 1989-92;
• ADC General to HM The Queen 1991-94;
• Chief of the General Staff 1992-94;
• Field Marshal 1994;
• Chief of the Defence Staff 1994-97;
• Constable, HM Tower of London 1996-2001

Iraq and Chalabi

According to Intelligence Newsletter:

Now that Ahmed Chalabi is back in good odor in Washington (IOL 521), his lobbyists in the United Kingdom are paving the way for his return to London. ChalabiâEUR™s prime adviser over the past five years, Claude Hankes Drielsma, has set up a consultancy, Global Strategy Ltd. in London. His two partners in the firm are Graham Barr, who was in charge of governmental relations at BP for 27 years, and Peter Anthony Inge, former chief of the defense staff in the United Kingdom. Incorporated in May of this year, Global Strategy is still dormant but it nonetheless seals an alliance between three men with experience in the Middle East and particularly in Iraq. A former merchant banker, Drielsma was head of the British branch of the German consultancy Roland Berger until last year. Along with Chalabi he had pressed actively in recent years for an inquiry into the United Nations oil for food program, buttonholing the American media and Congress on the issue...

For his part, Barr, who left BP in 2002, serves as chairman of Bell Pottinger Sans Frontieres (BPSF), the international branch of the Bell Pottinger communications agency founded by Tim Bell, former spokesman for Margaret Thatcher. BPSF has worked in Iraq since 2003. The firm was the main PR adviser to the interim Iraqi government and managed the campaign to prepare for elections in January of this year. Since then it has continued to advise the new Iraqi government.

Inge also has connections in Iraq. As the former defense chief, he sat on a committee set up by prime minister Tony Blair to examine British intelligence assessments prior to the war in Iraq. Inge also heads the board of the private security firm Aegis Defense Services which was founded by Tim Spicer and acts as an interface in Iraq between the U.S. military and the numerous private security firms operating in the country. Up until last year Inge was equally a member of the Hakluyt Foundation, the supervisory board of the private British intelligence firm Hakluyt which is highly active in the Middle East.^[1]

Trusts, Etc.

• St George's House;
• Deputy Chair, Historic Royal Palaces;
• Marlborough College Council

CHARITY/VOLUNTARY

Commissioner Royal Hospital, Chelsea; Member of Council, King Edward VII's Hospital Sister Agnes

CLUBS

Boodle's, Beefsteak, Army and Navy, MCC

Affiliations

• Aegis Defense Services, Chairman of the board [2]
• adviser to Investcorp
• BAe Systems, adviser
• consultant to OWR AG (Germany).
• Hakluyt 1999-2004
• Atlantic Partnership
• Pilgrims Society

References

1. ^'A British Trio with Iraq Connections' Intelligence Online, December 9, 2005, URL: www.IntelligenceOnline.com