Tension with the Government over the evidence for war on Iraq. It has been suggested that many within the intelligence community were uneasy that their qualified judgements on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction were presented as hard facts in various dossiers.
Dearlove's successor as C is John Scarlett, the former head of the Joint Intelligence Committee. Scarlett's appointment has not been without controversy, as in his role at the JIC Scarlett worked closely with Alastair Campbell on the dossier which would form the centre of the Dr. David Kelly affair.
Dearlove became Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge on 1 August 2004.
RichardDearlove was a participant or observer in the following events:
Tenet calls RichardDearlove, his counterpart at the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), to inform him of what is going on.
According to the minutes of the meeting, transcribed by Matthew Rycroft, Sir RichardDearlove, head of the British intelligence service, MI6, says that during his last visit (see July 20, 2002) to Washington he noticed a “perceptible shift in attitude.
On the 24th of January 2005, the MBA class was delighted to welcome Sir RichardDearlove to present the inaugural Cambridge Leadership Seminar.
Sir Richard's appointment was widely seen as a reflection of post-Cold War priorities of the SIS - which were as much about counter-terrorism, counter-proliferation, and contributing to the fight against crime as spying on foreign powers.
During the session Sir Richard answered many questions from students on a wide range of subjects, including how spies are recruited, managing the culture of MI6, and the changes intelligence organisations have had to make over the past 20 years.
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