Richard Mottram
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 Richard Mottram    (civil servant, spook) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 23 April 1946 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Member of | Ditchley/Governors, Ditchley/UK | ||||||||||||||||||||||
A former Security and Intelligence Co-ordinator
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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 |
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| 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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