Art of Betrayal (76 page)

14
  Private information and obituary of Sir David Spedding,
Guardian
, 14 June 2001

15
  Interview with Lord Hurd of Westwell for BBC Radio 4, 2009

16
  Interview with Sir Colin McColl for BBC Radio 4, 2009

17
  Information comes from evidence at the inquiry into the death of Diana Princess of Wales, 2008, transcripts available on National Archives website

18
  Interview with Sir John Scarlett for BBC Radio 4, 2009; private information

19
  Interview with Lord Hurd of Westwell for BBC Radio 4, 2009. An exchange on the subject was broadcast in
A Century in the Shadows
, BBC Radio 4, August 2009

20
  Interview with former CIA official

21
  Sir Richard Dearlove, ‘Our Changing Perceptions of National Security', lecture at Gresham College, London, 25 November 2009

22
  Interview with Sir John Scarlett for BBC Radio 4, 2009

23
  Tony Blair,
A Journey
, Hutchinson, London, 2010, p. 346

24
  Sir Richard Dearlove speaking at the Hay-on-Wye book festival, 31 May 2009

25
  Interview with Baroness Manningham-Buller for BBC Radio 4, 2009

26
 
Sir Richard Dearlove speaking at the Hay-on-Wye book festival, 31 May 2009

27
  Tenet,
At the Center of the Storm
, HarperCollins, London, 2007, p. 146; Joint Summit mentioned in Intelligence and Security Committee,
Annual Report 2001–2002
, HMSO. Available online at
https://www.mi5.gov.uk/output/intelligence-and-security-committee-annual-reports.html

28
  Christopher Andrew,
The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5
, Allen Lane, London, 2009, p. 809

29
  Intelligence and Security Committee,
Annual Report 2001–2002

30
  Account of this meeting from Alastair Campbell,
The Blair Years,
Random House, London, 2007, p. 561

31
  Ibid., p. 562

32
  Bob Woodward,
Bush at War
, Simon & Schuster, New York, 2002, p. 62

33
  Tyler Drumheller,
On the Brink
, Politico's, London, 2007, p. 30

34
  Sir Richard Dearlove speaking at the Hay-on-Wye book festival, 31 May 2009

35
  Drumheller,
On the Brink
, p. 31

36
  Ibid., p. 33

37
  Interview with Cofer Black by the author for
Secret Wars: The CIA since 9/11
, BBC World Service, 2006; statement of Cofer Black, Joint Congressional Inquiry into September 11th, 26 September 2002,
http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2002_hr/092602black.pdf

38
  Woodward,
Bush at War
, p. 52; Drumheller,
On the Brink
, p. 35; interview with Cofer Black by the author for
Secret Wars: The CIA since 9/11
, BBC World Service, 2006

39
  Campbell,
Blair Years
, p. 568

40
  Sir Richard Wilson, evidence at the Iraq Inquiry

41
 
The Handling of Detainees by UK Intelligence Personnel in Afghanistan, Guantanamo and Iraq
, Intelligence and Security Committee, March 2005,
https://www.mi5/.gov.uk/output/intelligence-and-security-committee-special-reports.html

42
  Michael Smith,
The Spying Game
, Politico's, London, 2003, p.1

43
  Evidence of Paul Bergne to House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, 22 January 2002; obituaries of Paul Bergne,
The Times
, 19 April 2007,
Daily Telegraph
, 16 April 2007, and Craig
Murray's blog, 17 April 2007,
http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/ archives/2007/04/paul_bergne.html

44
  Interview with Cofer Black and Gary Schroen by the author for
Secret Wars: The CIA since 9/11
, BBC World Service, 2006; Gary C. Schroen,
First In
, Ballantine Books, New York, 2005, p. 26

45
  Drumheller,
On the Brink
, p. 48

46
  Interview with Hank Crumpton

47
  Interview with Bob Grenier

48
  ‘Tora Bora Revisted: How We Failed to Get Bin Laden and Why it Matters Today', Report to the Foreign Affairs Committee, US Senate, 30 November 2009

49
  Interview with Abdullah Anas

50
  Account drawn from Intelligence and Security Committee,
The Handling of Detainees by UK Intelligence Personnel in Afghanistan, Guantanamo and Iraq
, March 2005,
http://www.cabinet office.gov.uk/media/cabinetoffice/corp/assets/publications/ reports/ intelligence/treatdetainees.pdf

51
  Sir Richard Dearlove speaking at the Hay-on-Wye book festival, 31 May 2009

52
  Baroness Manningham-Buller, lecture at the House of Lords, 10 March 2010

53
  Ibid.

54
  Intelligence and Security Committee,
The Handling of Detainees by UK Intelligence Personnel in Afghanistan, Guantanamo and Iraq

55
  Interview with Sir John Scarlett for BBC Radio 4, 2009

56
  Statement before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, 17 April 2007,
http://foreignaffairs.house.gov/110/sch041707.htm

57
  Private information from a number of officials

58
  Interview with Baroness Manningham-Buller for BBC Radio 4, 2009

59
  Evidence to the inquest into 7 July bombings

60
  Private information

61
  Interview with Baroness Manningham-Buller for BBC Radio 4, 2009

62
  Eliza Manningham-Buller interviewed on
Desert Island Discs,
BBC Radio 4, 23 November 2007

63
  Gordon Corera, ‘Analysis: MI5 and the Bomber', BBC News website,
30 April 2007,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/i /hi/uk/ 6477777.stm

64
  Interview with Baroness Manningham-Buller for BBC Radio 4, 2009

65
  Rosie Cowan and Richard Norton-Taylor, ‘Britain now No 1 al-Qaida target',
The Guardian
, 19 October 2006

66
  The author attended a meeting with an MI5 agent and his officer for the making of
The Real Spooks: MI5 since 9/11
, BBC Radio 4, December 2007

67
  Interview with an MI5 agent for
The Real Spooks: MI5 since 9/11,
BBC Radio 4, December 2007

68
  Ibid.

69
  Interview with an MI5 agent for
The Real Spooks: MI5 since 9/11,
BBC Radio 4, December 2007

70
  Baroness Manningham-Buller, speech at the Mile End Group, 9 November 2006, and private information

71
  Interview with Pakistani official

CHAPTER 10: IN THE BUNKER

1
  Private information from an individual who, unsurprisingly, requested anonymity

2
  The meeting of the Revolutionary Command Council is in Charles Duelfer,
Hide and Seek
, PublicAffairs, New York, 2009, p. 390. Saddam Hussein also makes reference to asking this question of his ministers a number of times in conversations with his FBI interrogator, 13 May 2004. (Transcript at
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB279/23.pdf).
See also
Iraq Survey Group Comprehensive Report
, vol. 1, which details Saddam's demeanour at meetings in September 2002

3
  Tyler Drumheller,
On the Brink
, Politico's, London, 2007, p. 53

4
  Jack Straw evidence to the Iraq Inquiry

5
  SIS4 evidence to the Iraq Inquiry

6
  Jack Straw evidence to the Iraq Inquiry

7
  Alastair Campbell,
The Blair Years
, Random House, London, 2007, p. 612

8
  Ibid., p. 567

9
  Tony Blair,
A Journey
, Hutchinson, London, 2001, p. 410

10
  Ibid., pp. 369, 388 and 408–9

11
 
Bob Woodward,
Bush at War
, Simon & Schuster, New York, 2002, pp. 197 and 111

12
 
Butler Review of Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction
, p. 70

13
  Blair,
Journey
, p. 385

14
 
Butler Review of Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction
, p. 45

15
  Interview with former UN inspector Bill Tierney

16
  The work, under the codename Operation Rockingham, is discussed in the
Butler Review of Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction
. Scott Ritter identified the men he met with as from MI6

17
  Sir Richard Dearlove evidence to the Iraq Inquiry

18
  James Risen,
State of War
, Free Press, New York, 2006, p. 113; Drumheller,
On the Brink
, p. 32

19
  Private information

20
  George Tenet,
At the Center of the Storm
, HarperCollins, London, 2007, p. 310

21
  Campbell,
Blair Years
, p. 645

22
  Sir Richard Wilson evidence to the Iraq Inquiry

23
  Tony Blair evidence to the Iraq Inquiry

24
  Campbell,
Blair Years
, pp. 630–1

25
  SIS4 evidence to the Iraq Inquiry

26
  Sir David Omand evidence to the Iraq Inquiry, available online at
www.iraqinquiry.org.uk/transcripts.aspx

27
  Campbell,
Blair Years
, p. 634

28
  David Omand,
Securing the State
, Hurst, London, 2010, p. 39

29
  The ‘mate' comment came in the Hutton Inquiry; the ‘good bloke' in Campbell,
Blair Years
, p. 618

30
  Sir Rodric Braithwaite, ‘Defending British spies: The Use and Abuses of Intelligence', speech at Chatham House, 5 November 2003

31
  Sir David Omand and Sir John Scarlett evidence to the Iraq Inquiry

32
  Scarlett evidence to the Hutton Inquiry, quoted in
Butler Review
, p. 78

33
  Michael Laurie's comments came in an email written to the Iraq Inquiry on 27 January 2010 in response to seeing Alistair
Campbell's testimony that the dossier was not designed to make the case for war. His email was released by the Inquiry in May 2011. Alastair Campbell then wrote to the Inquiry disputing his account.

34
  Sir David Manning evidence to the Iraq Inquiry

35
  Sir Richard Dearlove speaking at the Hay-on-Wye book festival, 31 May 2009

36
  Private information

37
  Matthew Rycroft evidence to the Iraq Inquiry

38
  Sir Richard Dearlove evidence to the Iraq Inquiry

39
 
Butler Review of Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction
, p. 67; Julian Miller evidence to the Iraq Inquiry

40
  Sir Richard Dearlove speaking at the Hay-on-Wye book festival, 31 May 2009

41
  Evidence suggesting it was 20th was provided in the Iraq Inquiry but was challenged by another witness. The witness SIS4 described the intelligence base as ‘thin' in his evidence

42
  SIS4 evidence to the Iraq Inquiry

43
  Sir John Scarlett evidence to the Iraq Inquiry

44
  Sir David Omand evidence to the Iraq Inquiry

45
  SIS4 evidence to the Iraq Inquiry

46
  Brian Jones,
Failing Intelligence,
Dialogue, London, 2010, p. 85

47
  Quoted in Bob Woodward,
Plan of Attack
, Simon & Schuster, New York, 2004, p. 190

48
  Sir Richard Dearlove evidence to the Iraq Inquiry

49
  Jones,
Failing Intelligence
, p. 234; and private information

50
  Private information and Iraq Survey Group Comprehensive Report, vol. 1

51
  Private information

52
  Jones,
Failing Intelligence
, p. 82

53
  Written evidence of Brian Jones to the Hutton and Butler Inquiries;
Butler Review of Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction;
Jones,
Failing Intelligence
, p. 89

54
  The minute was published as part of the Hutton Inquiry and is available at
http://www.the-hutton-inquiry.org.uk/content/cab/cab_33_0114t00115.pdf

55
  Jones,
Failing Intelligence
, pp. 191 and 198

56
 
Brian Jones interview on the
Today
programme, BBC Radio 4, 20 July 2004

57
  Graham Greene,
Our Man in Havana
, Vintage, London, 2001, pp. 189 and 78

58
  Matthew Rycroft evidence to the Iraq Inquiry

59
  Sir David Omand evidence to the Iraq Inquiry

60
  Joint evidence of Sir John Scarlett and Julian Miller to the Iraq Inquiry

61
  Quotes drawn from the
Butler Review of Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction

62
  George Tenet speech at Georgetown University, 5 February 2004,
https://www.cia.gov/news_information/speeches_testimony/2004/tenet_georgetownspeech_02052004.html

63
  Woodward,
Plan of Attack
, pp. 106–7

64
  The author was the journalist present in the room along with a BBC colleague. Sections of the interview were broadcast as part of a programme profiling Saddam on BBC Radio 4 but a planned story on the mobile labs by the author never made it to air

65
  Colin Powell speaking at the UN, 5 February 2003

66
  ‘The Real Story of Curveball',
Der Spiegel
, 22 March 2008; Bob Drogin,
Curveball
, Ebury, London, 2007; Drumheller,
On the Brink;
and
Butler Review of Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction