Geoffrey Tantum

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Person.png Geoffrey Tantum PowerbaseRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(spook, diplomat, businessman)
BornNovember 1940
Children • Laura Tantum
• Katie Tantum
Member ofEquilibrium Gulf Limited, Le Cercle

Employment.png Director

In office
2013-03-14 - 2013-06-30
EmployerModac Global Limited

Employment.png Director

In office
2013-12-03 - 2014-03-31
EmployerEquilibrium Gulf Limited
Resigned

Employment.png Director

In office
2002-02-20 - 2005-02-08
EmployerPetra Software Limited

Geoffrey Alan Tantum is a former MI6 controller for the Middle East.[1][2] He reportedly met with Jonathan Aitken every six weeks and swapped information.[3] He was awarded an OBE in 1995.[4]

Background

He attended Hampton Grammar School, then RMA Sandhurst, then obtained a 1st Class degree in Oriental Studies (Arabic) from St John’s College Oxford.[3]

Career

Geoffrey Tantum work in the UK military from 1959–66, then joined MI6.[3]

Having a degree in Arabic, Tantum 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."[5]


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".[6][1] [2] In 2005, he was working for Gulf Consultancy Services, UK.[7]

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.[8] Katie Tantum is another daughter.[9]

Deep Politics

He attended Le Cercle and was named by The Telegraph as its UK secretary.[10]

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