UNITED KINGDOM

Post-Cold War

2002

Generally

Materials presented chronologically.

Joint Intelligence Committee. Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Assessment of the British Government. London: Stationery Office of the United Kingdom, 2002. [http://www.pm.gov.uk/files/pdf/iraqdossier.pdf]

The JIC assessment states: "As a result of the intelligence we judge that Iraq has:

"- continued to produce chemical and biological agents;

"- military plans for the use of chemical and biological weapons.... Some of these weapons are deployable within 45 minutes of an order to use them;

"- command and control arrangements in place to use chemical and biological weapons."

Gordievsky, Oleg. "The Woman Who Kept My Secret." telegraph.co.uk, 5 May 2002.

The former KGB officer offers praise for Eliza Manningham-Buller's being named to head MI5 -- "the best news for the service in a decade.... [W]hat will make Eliza such a good head of MI5 isn't that she has a smooth and agreeable exterior; the secret of her success will be that she has been an exceptional operational officer."

Jonkers, Roy K. [COL/USAF (Ret.)] "Britain Names Future MI5 Director." AFIO Weekly Intelligence Notes 19-02 (13 May 2002).

According to a 17 April 2002 Associated Press report, Eliza Manningham-Buller, the current Deputy Director General of MI5, has been "named as the prospective head of MI 5, to be effective next October. The current MI 5 chief, Sir Stephen Lander, will take another government post.... Manningham-Buller, 53, is said to be a counter-terrorism expert . She gained practical experience in counter-terrorism in the fight against the Irish Republican Army's terrorism. She was a senior liaison officer with the CIA during the Gulf War, and was among the senior British intelligence officers who flew to Washington the day after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks."

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