Geoffrey Tantum

Geoffrey Tantum    (soldier, spook, diplomat, businessman)
Born	November 1940
Nationality	UK
Alma mater	Hampton Grammar School, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Oxford University/St John's College
Children	• Laura Tantum • Katie Tantum
Member of	Equilibrium Gulf Limited, Le Cercle
Director In office 2013-03-14 - 2013-06-30 Employer Modac Global Limited  Director In office 2013-12-03 - 2014-03-31 Employer Equilibrium Gulf Limited Resigned  Director (Security Consultant) In office 2003-07-21 - 2013-01-31 Employer South Pool Property Investments Limited  Director In office 2002-02-20 - 2005-02-08 Employer Petra Software Limited In office 1959 - 1966 Employer UK/Army

Sir Geoffrey Alan Tantum is a former MI6 controller for the Middle East. He reportedly met with Jonathan Aitken every six weeks and swapped information. He was awarded an OBE in 1995. His name was on a list of 117 MI6 operatives posted on the internet in the 1990s by disaffected spook Richard Tomlinson.

Background

Geoffrey Tantum attended Hampton Grammar School, then RMA Sandhurst, then obtained a 1st Class degree in Oriental Studies (Arabic) from St John’s College Oxford.

Career

Geoffrey Tantum worked in the UK military from 1959–66, then joined MI6. Having a degree in Arabic, he focused on the Middle East. "The report was based on a tape-recording by a British agent of President ali Khameni of Iran, giving orders to leaders of Iran's secret service on how they should destabilise Saudi Arabia by a series of terrorist bombings of Saudi government buildings and British and US military offices in Riyadh and Dharan."

Later activities

Since 2002, he was been a director of a range of UK companies, including Equilibrium Gulf Limited, "an innovative ethical UK-based geo-strategic advisory company with an international focus". His co-directors in Petra Software Limited were George Ritchie Gray, Caroline Anne Tantum, Jeremy Michael Wooding and Ralph Douglas. In 2005, he was working for Gulf Consultancy Services, UK. He was a director of South Pool Property Investments Limited from 2003-07-21 to 2013-01-31.

Connections

Laura Tantum, a daughter, ran the Universal Exports Charity Foundation, named after the company used as a cover for MI6 in the James Bond films. Katie Tantum is another daughter.

In 2018 Tantum was honoured "for his outstanding service and contributions in the development of relations between the Kingdom of Bahrain and the United Kingdom for over twenty years, during which he promoted common interests and cooperation between the two kingdoms."

Deep Politics

He attended Le Cercle and was named by The Telegraph as its UK secretary.

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