John Scarlett
Sir John McLeod Scarlett was appointed head of the Secret Intelligence Service in 2004. He had previously served as chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee.and head of the Intelligence and Securities Secretariat in the Cabinet Office. Scarlett was succeeded as head of the SIS by John Sawers in November 2009.[1]
MI6 career
- A fluent Russian speaker, he joined MI6 in 1970 and during his early career served in Nairobi, Moscow, and Paris.
- He went on to be in charge of Britain's station in Moscow. [2]
Iraq dossier
Scarlett chaired the Joint Intelligence Committee from 3 September 2001. In this role he had responsibility for the dossier on alleged Iraqi weapons of mass destruction published by the British Government in September 2002. [3]
Statoil
In 2011, Scarlett was appointed to a strategic advisory committee advising Helge Lund, the head of the Norwegian state oil company Statoil.[4]
External Resources
- David Rose, A singular spy, Observer, 9 May 2004.
- Iraq Inquiry, Oral Evidence, 8 December 2009.
Notes
- ↑ Richard Norton-Taylor, Sir John Sawers named as new chief of MI6, guardian.co.uk, 16 June 2009.
- ↑ BBC News Profile: John Scarlett, 26 August 2003, accessed 26 February 2008
- ↑ Hutton Inquiry Hearing Transcripts. Tuesday, 26 August 2003, Morning
- ↑ Statoil spies top MI6 talent, upstreamonline.com, accessed 28 April 2011.
