John Williams
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 John Williams  ( propagandist) | |
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| Nationality | UK |
UK spindoctor who was head of PR for three successive UK Foreign Secretaries at the FCO and wrote the first draft of the infamous "Dodgy Dossier" | |
John Williams was head of PR for three successive UK Foreign Secretaries at the FCO and wrote the first draft of the government "Dodgy Dossier" which claimed that Iraq has WMD.
Dodgy dossier
- Full article: Dodgy Dossier
- Full article: Dodgy Dossier
- Mr Williams, press secretary to three foreign secretaries, said that the dossier would show how wrong the Blair team was about Saddam's alleged possession of WMD. Mr Williams said: "The argument was that here was someone who had been known to possess illegal weapons. We regarded him as a threat." He added: "The document will show the mindset that everyone had. It was wrong and we know that now."
- The Government has yet to decide whether to publish the draft dossier, in line with an information tribunal judgment last month. Ministers have insisted that the dossier was entirely the work of intelligence agencies, but Mr Williams's role remains unclear. Mr Williams denies that he came up with the claim that Saddam could have launched a WMD strike within 45 minutes. He said: "I was a member of the team looking at it.... I used the available information to write it, but [intelligence chief] John Scarlett was then commissioned to write it instead."[1]
Wlliams later stated that "I wish I had never drafted the dossier, but I trusted Blair on Iraq - after all, he'd been right on Kosovo".[2]
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Description |
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| Jackson Hole/Meeting/2016 | 25 August 2016 | 27 August 2016 | The 2016 Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium |
| Jackson Hole/Meeting/2021 | 27 August 2021 | 27 August 2021 | 2021 central banker gathering. "What they really are doing is consolidating a global central banker's dictatorship". |
| Jackson Hole/Meeting/2022 | 25 August 2022 | 27 August 2022 | The 2022 Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium |
| Jackson Hole/Meeting/2023 | 24 August 2023 | 26 August 2023 | The 2023 Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium |
| Jackson Hole/Meeting/2024 | 22 August 2024 | 24 August 2024 | The 2024 Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium |
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References
- ↑ Ian Griggs and Brian Brady 'Dodgy dossier' was 'wrong', its author says Independent on Sunday, 17 February 2008
- ↑ http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/feb/18/foreignpolicy.iraq
