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	Defence Intelligence Staff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Defence Intelligence Staff is part of the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence.
		The DIS is responsible for gathering and assessing intelligence concerning military threats to the UK and its allies.
		The DIS is headed by the Chief of Defence Intelligence (CDI), a serving three star officer in one of the armed forces; in practice the post rotates between the three services.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Defence_Intelligence_Staff (743 words)

	UK Joint Intelligence Committee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) was founded in 1936 as a sub-committee of the Chiefs of Staff.
		Full details of the UK central intelligence machine, of which the JIC is part, are set out in a now somewhat dated official document at [2] JIC meetings are in two parts: the first at which Australia, Canada and the US are represented; and the second, with no foreigners present.
		JIC members John Scarlett and Sir Richard Dearlove (head of MI6, the Secret Intelligence Service) gave evidence to the Inquiry in which they argued that the words used in the dossier were consistent with their assessment of the intelligence available at the time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/UK_Joint_Intelligence_Committee (555 words)

	Defence Intelligence Staff [ DIS ]- UK Intelligence Agencies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Defence Intelligence Staff, part of the Ministry of Defence and funded within the defence vote, is an essential element of the central intelligence machinery.
		The Defence Intelligence Staff is the main provider of strategic Defence Intelligence to the Ministry of Defence, and the Armed Forces and is also a key element of the United Kingdom’s central intelligence machinery.
		The Chief of Defence Intelligence is responsible for the work of the DIS and is charged also with the overall direction of intelligence within the defence community.
	www.fas.org /irp/world/uk/dis/index.html (968 words)

	BARISTA: a fine word: "besmirched" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As Mr Blair set up an inquiry yesterday into intelligence failures before the war, Brian Jones, the former leading expert on WMD in the Ministry of Defence, declared that Downing Street's dossier, a key plank in convincing the public of the case for war, was "misleading" on Saddam Hussein's chemical and biological capability.
		It is clear from the evidence to the Hutton inquiry that the experts of the Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS) who dealt with chemical and biological warfare, including those working directly with me, had problems with some aspects of what was being said in various drafts of the dossier that was published on 24 September 2002.
		During the course of their own inquiry, the Intelligence and Security Committee was given sight of the relevant intelligence and, despite the fact that they are not expert intelligence analysts, they reported rather enigmatically that they could "understand the basis on which the CDI and the JIC took the view they did".
	dox.media2.org /barista/archives/000360.html (3184 words)

	Don't blame us
		Brian Jones, the former head of the Defence Intelligence Staff’s nuclear, chemical and biological branch until his retirement last year, says the British government “misled” the British public by ignoring the unanimous advice of its intelligence analysts.
		We could only suppose that the compartmented intelligence seen by the CDI was clear and unambiguous for him to disregard, without discussion, the recorded views of two senior analysts who, although only of middle rank were, like the late Dr Kelly, the UK's foremost experts in their field.
		It is the intelligence community leadership at the level of the membership of the JIC and the upper echelons of the DIS - those who had access to and may have misinterpreted the compartmented intelligence - that had the final say on the assessment presented in the dossier.
	quicksitebuilder.cnet.com /supfacts/id421.html (3029 words)

	Defence Intelligence Staff [ DIS ] - UK Intelligence Agencies
		The Defence Intelligence Staff can trace its ancestry back to 1946, when the Joint Intelligence Bureau (JIB) was established under the direction of General Keith Strong, General Eisenhower’s British wartime Chief of Intelligence.
		It was created in 1964 by the amalgamation of all three service intelligence staffs and the civilian Joint Intelligence Bureau to form an integrated body able to serve the Ministry of Defence and the Armed Forces and other Government Departments.
		These are the tasks of the Defence Intelligence Staff, which produces assessments drawing on material from a variety of sources, including both open literature and classified reports.
	www.globalsecurity.org /intell/world/uk/dis.htm (978 words)

	Department of National Defence - Canadian Intelligence Agencies
		The organization of National Defence mixes the civilian Department, managed by the Deputy Minister, with the military headquarters, commanded by the Chief of the Defence Staff.
		The Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (DCDS) is the senior operations (J3) and intelligence (J2) officer of the CF, and as such, is the representative of these functions in the National Defence Headquarter (NDHQ) Joint Staff.
		Defence planning is the process by which policy options are developed for government consideration.
	www.globalsecurity.org /intell/world/canada/dnd.htm (458 words)

	Telegraph \| News
		Mr Morrison, who was deputy chief of defence intelligence at the time, made his comments on BBC1's Panorama programme last night, three days before the publication of the Butler report into the use of intelligence before the 2003 invasion.
		The report is widely expected to criticise the intelligence services and ministers for overstating the threat posed by Iraq's supposed arsenal of weapons of mass destruction.
		Mr Morrison, who was deputy chief of defence intelligence from 1995 to 1999, also criticised the way Downing Street compiled the dossier about Iraq's WMD that was published in September 2002.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/07/12/nirq12.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/07/12/ixworld.html (448 words)

	Iraq intelligence misleading: British expert
		Dr Brian Jones, who headed the Defence Intelligence Staff's nuclear, chemical and biological branch until a year ago, says he does not know of a single expert who backed Prime Minister Tony Blair's case for going to war.
		intelligence staff were blamed for decisions made last year to justify the reasons for going to war.
		His assessment that 'expert intelligence analysts' were overruled 'resulting in a presentation that was misleading about Iraq's capabilities' comes less than 24 hours after Blair ordered a six-month investigation headed by former Cabinet Secretary Lord Butler into whether British intelligence was accurate into the run up to the Iraq war.
	www.rediff.com /news/2004/feb/04iraq.htm (381 words)

	Intelligence chief`s bombshell: `We were overruled on dossier`. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As Mr Blair yesterday set up an inquiry into intelligence failures before the war, Brian Jones, the former leading expert on WMD in the Ministry of Defence, declared that Downing Street`s dossier, a key plank in convincing the public of the case for war, was "misleading" about Saddam Hussein`s chemical and biological capability.
		Writing in today`s Independent, Dr Jones, who was head of the nuclear, chemical and biological branch of the Defence Intelligence Staff until he retired last year, reveals that the experts failed in their efforts to have their views reflected.
		The Government attempted to dismiss his complaints as part of the normal process of "debate" within the DIS and claimed that other sections of the intelligence community were better qualified to assess the 45-minute and chemical claim.
	nuclearno.com /textml.asp?7666 (964 words)

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		Another important contributor to the central intelligence machinery is the Defence Intelligence Staff, which is an integral part of the Ministry of Defence.
		The Defence Intelligence Staff, part of the Ministry of Defence and funded in the usual way within the defence vote, is also an essential element of the central intelligence machinery.
		The Chief of Defence Intelligence (CDI) is responsible for the work of the DIS and is charged also with the overall direction of intelligence within the defence community.
	www2.hawaii.edu /~nisaac/factpage.htm (1243 words)

	Intelligence and Security Committee Annual Report 1999-2000
		The final element in the intelligence community is central co-ordination, with the Ministerial Committee, the Cabinet Office co-ordinating and assessment staff, and the Joint Intelligence Committee.
		The Chief of Defence Intelligence gave evidence to the Committee and we had several informal sessions with the three Agencies at their headquarters.
		In the recent staff survey in the Security Service, the main complaint was that a significant number of the staff did not believe that they were paid enough for their work.
	ftp.die.net /mirror/cryptome/isc-99-00.htm (13845 words)

	Defence Intelligence Staff - ajb007.co.uk
		Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS) — The DIS is an integral part of the Ministry of Defence and an essential part of Britain’s intelligence machine.
		The head of the DIS is the Chief of Defence Intelligence (CDI), a serving 3 star officer who may be drawn from either of HM’s Armed Forces and reports to the Chief of the Defence Staff and the Secretary of State for Defence.
		The Defence Geographic and Imagery Intelligence Agency (DGIA) was formed in May 1999 through the merger of Military Survey and the Joint Air Reconnaissance Intelligence Centre and is based in Feltham, West London and operates from various stations throughout the UK and Germany.
	www.ajb007.co.uk /articles/007/dis (1147 words)

	Brian Jones. Retired branch head of the defence intelligence analysis staff (Dias)
		Retired branch head of the defence intelligence analysis staff (Dias)
		Dr Jones told the inquiry his staff had concerns about the dossier at the centre of No 10's row with the BBC, parts of which he described as "over-egged".
		Dr Jones said the use of the word "indicated" to express the strength of the intelligence on the 45-minute claim in the main body of the dossier was "a little bit strong but I felt I could live with that".
	foi.missouri.edu /newsmgmtabroad/brianjones.html (357 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Intelligence staff complaints on dossier were kept secret from MPs
		The inquiry has heard that two members of the defence intelligence staff did make formal complaints about the language in the dossier, including the claim that Iraq could fire chemical and biological weapons within 45 minutes.
		Yesterday the inquiry was told that Mr Howard had advised Geoff Hoon, the defence secretary, not to disclose the existence of the complaints even when he subsequently gave evidence to the parliamentary intelligence and security committee (ISC).
		Mr Hoon told the committee about dissent expressed by two senior defence intelligence officials only after the Hutton inquiry was set up and it was provided with written evidence of the complaints.
	www.guardian.co.uk /hutton/story/0,13822,1043670,00.html (520 words)

	Operation Rockingham:
		DIS is the key intelligence unit of the Department of Defense.
		Former chairmen of the joint intelligence committee have criticised the way their successor John Scarlett was "starstruck" by Downing Street, allowing it to influence the wording of the discredited dossier on Iraqi weapons.
		He said: "Within the defence intelligence services I liaise with the Rockingham cell." Unfortunately nobody on the committee followed up this lead, which is a pity because the Rockingham reference may turn out to be very important indeed.
	globalresearch.ca /articles/THU407A.html (3618 words)

	Print Message (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Intelligence officials may not be ready to blow the whistle in the U.S., but British intelligence officials are certainly opening up.
		"Dr Jones, who is now retired, was at the time the dossier was published the head of a scientific section in the defence intelligence analysis staff responsible for chemical and biological weapons.
		"Some intelligence analysts complained that they were unhappy with "all the detail that was in the dossier", he said.
	www.suite101.com /print_message.cfm/investing/90244/839556 (302 words)

	A failure of intelligence
		It was from the Joint Intelligence Committee which is made up of the three chiefs of Britain's intelligence and security agencies and senior officials from the main government departments.
		As Deputy Chief of Defence Intelligence he was in charge of the MoD's analysts, and yet, without even seeing the new intelligence, Cragg accepted the judgement of MI6 and the dossier's drafters that it had dealt satisfactorily with his analysts concerns.
		Neither had had a career in intelligence analysis, and yet both signed up to the dossier's conclusion that Saddam was producing chemical and biological agents without canvassing their own expert analysts.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article6468.htm (6376 words)

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		Apart from the single issue of the late, sensitive intelligence from which the whole of the DIS except the chief was excluded, there was no broader problem for the DIS of access to sensitive intelligence.
		Although some of the intelligence we received after 1998 hinted as much, it was difficult to square these reports with others, and with the continuing failure of Iraq to cooperate fully with the inspectors.
		He reiterates that a mass of starkly clear intelligence misled him into believing the threat was actual, here and now, and yet seems remarkably unconcerned that an estimated £1.5bn-plus per annum intelligence machine could get it so wrong on such a vital issue that has cost the nation so much.
	www.warmwell.com /brianjones2.html (3049 words)

	C4 News - UK - Iraq intelligence - Government accused of 'over-egging' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lord Hutton's inquiry has heard how members of the Defence Intelligence Staff had serious concerns that the Government was over-stating intelligence in its dossier on Iraq.
		The evidence painted a picture of intelligence assessments being rushed, concerns being over-ridden and the normal rigour over language being thrown out the window.
		He said everyone present questioned the new intelligence - now inserted in the latest draft of the dossier - which claimed that Iraq could deploy chemical or biological weapons in 45 minutes.
	www.channel4.com /news/2003/09/week_1/03_hutton.html (481 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Politics - Report shows Hoon is running out of allies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		If the leaks are to be believed, the committee was far from impressed with his performance, particularly his response to questions on concerns among defence intelligence staff about the claims made in the dossier.
		But if Mr Hoon did, as one leak suggests, flatly deny to the intelligence and security committee that there were concerns among defence intelligence staff about the dossier, he would have been on dangerous ground.
		He urged Mr Hoon to rebuff any attempts to find out who the two staff members were: "We should resist any calls from the ISC [intelligence and security committee] to disclose the identities of the individuals concerned, call them as witnesses, or have access to their written comments to line management," he wrote.
	news.scotsman.com /politics.cfm?id=1000052003 (1014 words)

	blogorrhoea: 02/01/2004 - 02/07/2004
		Erstwhile head of the nuclear, chemical and biological branch of the Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS), Brian Jones has looked into the future and seen a big pile of poo coming at him.
		Dr Jones makes clear that he was not alone and declares that the whole of the Defence Intelligence Staff, Britain's best qualified analysts on WMD, agreed that the claims should have been "carefully caveated"...
		The fact, according to Goodman, that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld created an Office of Special Plans (OSP) outside the formal intelligence channels with the specific mandate to reassess raw intelligence in order to find alleged links between Saddam and al-Qaeda suggests that the administration was applying that pressure in unconventional ways.
	blogorrhoea.blogspot.com /2004_02_01_blogorrhoea_archive.html (654 words)

	The Mechanisms of an Oppressive State: Parrt 1
		Its role is to support the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) proper, which in turn provides Ministers and senior Officials with regular intelligence assessments on a wide range of issues of immediate and long-term importance to national interests, primarily in the fields of security, international crime, defence and foreign affairs.
		The Joint Intelligence Secretariat is responsible for the administration of the JIC and its sub-committees.
		During the 1920's and 1930's SIS was to concentrate on the Communist threat, often to the exclusion of the fascist threat from Germany, Italy and Spain or the growing Japanese militarism.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article4463.htm (14505 words)

	C4 News - UK - Iraq intelligence - Disquiet over dossier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It reported that there was unhappiness at senior levels of British intelligence with the way the government used intelligence material last September in its dossier on Iraq's military capabilities.
		And in a briefing note for defence secretary Geoff Hoon written last month there is yet another reference to disquiet in the Defence Intelligence Service.
		Martin Howard, the MoD's depty chief of intelligence was asked if he thought that Dr Kelly would have talked to these disgruntled members of staff in Defence Intelligence.
	www.channel4.com /news/2003/08/week_3/11_kelly.html (2938 words)

	Hutton Inquiry: Blair government's lies on Iraqi WMD unravel
		Testimony from two weapons experts from the Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS), attached to the British Ministry of Defence, has dealt a body-blow to the government of Prime Minister Tony Blair.
		That it never approved the final draft is devastating, given that a central plank of the government’s defence of its lies is the claim that the document was “owned” by Scarlett specifically and by the JIC as a whole.
		Faced with even friendly criticism and suggestions, the government decided it should bypass normal procedures so the dossier could be issued before the reconvening of Parliament and used to intimidate and silence critics of the drive to war.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2003/sep2003/hutt-s06.shtml (1818 words)

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