Richard Mottram

Richard Mottram   (civil servant, spook)
Born	23 April 1946
Member of	Ditchley/Governors, Ditchley/UK
A former Security and Intelligence Co-ordinator  Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee In office 11 November 2005 - 2007 Combined job restyled "Permanent Secretary, Intelligence, Security and Resilience"  Security and Intelligence Co-ordinator In office 11 November 2005 - 2007 Combined job restyled "Permanent Secretary, Intelligence, Security and Resilience"

In 1985, as private secretary to Michael Heseltine, the Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defence, he was a witness for the prosecution in the trial of Clive Ponting, later acquitted of an offence under section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 for passing information to Labour MP Tam Dalyell about the sinking of the Belgrano during the Falklands war. When asked whether answers to parliamentary questions should be truthful and not deliberately ambiguous or misleading, there was a long silence before he replied: "In highly charged political matters, one person's ambiguity may be another person's truth".

 

Event Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
2006 Counter Terror World Summit	5 December 2006	6 December 2006	London Olympia	Bunch of "counter-terrorists" who met in London 2006

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