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, Stirrup 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]
Stirrup reportedly offered to approach General Sir Peter Wall and Air Marshall Stephen Hillier. He also claimed to be a friend of the Defence Minister in the Lords, and the Armed Forces Minister. After being confronted by the Sunday Times, Stirrup denied offering to lobby, and said his earlier meeting had merely been an exploratory discussion.[3]
Notes
- ↑ Outgoing CDS to receive peerage, number10.gov.uk, 27 October 2010.
- ↑ Galloping Greed of the old warhorses, Insight, Sunday Times, 14 October 2012, pp.13-15.
- ↑ Galloping Greed of the old warhorses, Insight, Sunday Times, 14 October 2012, p.15.
