Jock Stirrup

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Air Chief Marshal Sir Graham Eric (Jock) Stirrup was Chief of the Defence Staff from April 2006 to October 2010, when he was granted a life peerage.[1]

Sunday Times sting operation

In 2012, Dannatt was one of a number of retired senior army officers targeted in a sting operation by Sunday Times journalists posing as representatives of a Korean drone manufacturer.[2]

Notes

  1. Outgoing CDS to receive peerage, number10.gov.uk, 27 October 2010.
  2. Galloping Greed of the old warhorses, Insight, Sunday Times, 14 October 2012, pp.13-15.