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'''Guy David St.John Kelso Spindler''' is a UK [[spook]] whose name was leaked by [[Richard Tomlinson]] in 1999. He was Chief Operations Officer of the [[Institute for Statecraft]] in 2019.<ref>http://archive.ph/dS7zN</ref>
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'''Guy David St.John Kelso Spindler''' is a UK [[MI6]] officer whose name was leaked by [[Richard Tomlinson]] in 1999. He was Chief Operations Officer of the [[Institute for Statecraft]] in 2019.<ref>http://archive.ph/dS7zN</ref>
  
 
==Background==
 
==Background==
Guy Spindler may have been born in 1962,<ref>https://suite.endole.co.uk/insight/people/23349482-mr-guy-david-stjohn-kelso-spindler</ref> although his Companies house page claims "February 1957".<ref>https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/VfXut6AWd0OcU3mIyx_PTa_oF4o</ref>
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Guy Spindler may have been born in 1962,<ref>https://suite.endole.co.uk/insight/people/23349482-mr-guy-david-stjohn-kelso-spindler</ref> although his Companies house page claims "February 1957".<ref>https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/VfXut6AWd0OcU3mIyx_PTa_oF4o</ref> His [[LinkedIn]] page stated that he attended the [[University of Southampton]].<ref>https://powerbase.info/index.php/Guy_Spindler</ref>
  
 
==Career==
 
==Career==
Guy Spindler joined [[MI6]]. 1987: Moscow.<ref>https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/dog-days-of-soviet-union-coup/</ref>
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Guy Spindler joined [[MI6]] in 1987: Moscow.<ref>https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/dog-days-of-soviet-union-coup/</ref>
  
 
==Activities==
 
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On 25 May 2018 he started [[Maesdown]], a consultancy company with his wife. The company was dissolved on 2 July 2019.<ref>https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/11384084/persons-with-significant-control</ref>
 
On 25 May 2018 he started [[Maesdown]], a consultancy company with his wife. The company was dissolved on 2 July 2019.<ref>https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/11384084/persons-with-significant-control</ref>
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==Exposure==
 
==Exposure==
Guy Spindler's name was included on a list of [[MI6]] agents leaked by [[Richard Tomlinson]] in 1999, next to the annotation "Guy David St. John Kelso Spindler: 87 Moscow, 97 Pretoria; dob 1962."<ref>https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/08/275809.html</ref>
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Guy Spindler's name was included on a list of [[MI6]] agents leaked by [[Richard Tomlinson]] in 1999, next to the annotation "Guy David St. John Kelso Spindler: 87 Moscow, 97 Pretoria; dob 1962."<ref>https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/08/275809.html</ref>
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== Cover-up ==
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On 12 May 2019, [[David Miller]] tweeted "If [[II]] is not [[MI6]] why is a serving 6 Officer their Chief Operating Office?"<ref>https://powerbase.info/index.php/File:Screenshot_2021-06-16_at_08.22.25.png</ref> Later that month, Guy Spindler's LinkedIn page had been amended, to suggest that he had retired from the Foreign Office and by implication MI6 in June 2017.<ref>https://powerbase.info/index.php/Guy_Spindler</ref>
  
 
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Latest revision as of 20:25, 12 October 2022

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Guy Spindler.jpg
BornJune 1962
ResidenceSomorset,  UK
Alma materUniversity of Southampton
SpouseLaura Jane Spindler
Member ofInstitute for Statecraft, Institute for Statecraft/Tor team
UK Spook. Chief Operations Officer of the Institute for Statecraft.

Guy David St.John Kelso Spindler is a UK MI6 officer whose name was leaked by Richard Tomlinson in 1999. He was Chief Operations Officer of the Institute for Statecraft in 2019.[1]

Background

Guy Spindler may have been born in 1962,[2] although his Companies house page claims "February 1957".[3] His LinkedIn page stated that he attended the University of Southampton.[4]

Career

Guy Spindler joined MI6 in 1987: Moscow.[5]

Activities

Guy Spindler member of the IfS "TOR Team" with a reported 25 years of experience. His job title is listed as "Institution building" and his other roles as "Govt-NGO relationship building; network and cluster management".[6]

On 25 May 2018 he started Maesdown, a consultancy company with his wife. The company was dissolved on 2 July 2019.[7]

Exposure

Guy Spindler's name was included on a list of MI6 agents leaked by Richard Tomlinson in 1999, next to the annotation "Guy David St. John Kelso Spindler: 87 Moscow, 97 Pretoria; dob 1962."[8]

Cover-up

On 12 May 2019, David Miller tweeted "If II is not MI6 why is a serving 6 Officer their Chief Operating Office?"[9] Later that month, Guy Spindler's LinkedIn page had been amended, to suggest that he had retired from the Foreign Office and by implication MI6 in June 2017.[10]


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