Peter Inge

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Peter Inge - or the Rt Hon Field Marshal The Lord Inge, KG, GCB, DL to give him his full title (born 5 August 1935) - was a member of the Butler Inquiry team, chaired by Robin Butler, that determined that the intelligence used to declare Iraq's possession of "Weapons of Mass Destruction" was flawed. 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. He is president of the Pilgrims Society of Great Britain.


Career

Peter Inge was commissioned into the Green Howards from Sandhurst in 1956. He served with the 1st Battalion in Hong Kong, Germany and Libya. After working in the Ministry of Defence (MOD) he returned to the Battalion as a company commander, serving in Northern Ireland. From 1971 to 1972 he was Brigade Major with the 11th Armoured Brigade, before being appointed Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion the Green Howards. He subsequently commanded the Staff College’s Junior Division, then Task Force C of the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR). In 1987 he was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, promoted to Lieutenant General and continued to serve in Germany as Chief of Staff of I (British) Corps. He returned to Britain as GOC North Eastern District, based in York, then was appointed Director General, Logistics Policy (Army) at the MOD. In 1989 Sir Peter became the Commander of NATO’s Northern Army Group and Commander in Chief of BAOR. On his return to the UK in 1992 he became Chief of the General Staff and in 1994 the professional head of the British Army. On 15 March 1994 he was promoted to Field Marshal and became Chief of the Defence Staff. He served in the post until 1997, when he was created Baron Inge, of Richmond in the County of North Yorkshire. He was appointed as one of the 24 Knights of the Garter in 2002. In 2004 he was made a Privy Councillor and appointed to serve on the Butler Committee, which examined the use of intelligence during the Iraq War.

Early life

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.

He was a member of the Butler Inquiry team, chaired by Robin Butler, Baron Butler of Brockwell, that determined that the intelligence used to declare Iraq's possession of "Weapons of Mass Destruction" was flawed. When Inge was appointed to sit in judgment on whether our spies were wrong about Iraq or whether their messages were distorted, he was still a member of the Hakluyt Foundation, a supervisory board for Hakluyt, a firm which hires former MI6 agents to work for private companies like Shell and BP.

Today, Lord Inge is also a consultant to BAe Systems, Vickers plc., Investcorp (a Middle Eastern bank), and OWR AG (a German firm making gas masks, protective suits, decontamination trailers and other specialist protection against nuclear, biological and chemical warfare). Since 2003, the year it was created, Lord Inge is the non-executive chairman of Aegis Defence Services, a London-based company which offers mercenaries and related services to governments at war. Aegis was awarded a $293 million contract by the Pentagon in May 2004 to act as the "coordination and management hub" for the fifty-plus private security companies in Iraq. They also contributed seventy-five teams of eight armed civilians each to assist and protect the Project Management Office of the United States and provided protection for the Oil-for-Food Program inquiry. The CEO of Aegis is Lt. Col. Tim Spicer, a former officer of the SAS and a former CEO of Sandline International.


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]

Register of Interests

Trusts, Etc.

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

References

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