UK/Ministry of Defence

UK/Ministry of Defence
Parent organization	UK
Headquarters	Whitehall, Westminster, London
Leader	Secretary of State for Defence
Type	military
Subgroups	• United Kingdom Special Forces • Directorate General Media and Communications • Directorate of Targeting and Information Operations • Directorate of Defence Communications
Staff	58,160
Exposed by	2021 British Ministry of Defence leaks
Subpage	•UK/Ministry of Defence/Press Office

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Organisations

Propaganda and information control

• 15 (UK) Psychological Operations Group | 7644 (Media operations) Squadron | British Forces Broadcasting Service | Defence Media Operations Centre | Directorate of Targeting and Information Operations | D-Notice Committee | The Green Book | Information Policy | Intelligence and Information Operations Capability Programme | Media Operations - Joint Doctrine Publication 3-45.1 | Media Operations Group (V) | Services Sound and Vision Corporation | Directorate General Media and Communications

Regiments and units

• Army Doctrine Committee
• Defence Intelligence and Security Centre
• Intelligence Corps
• Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre
• Land Warfare Centre

Issues, operations and concepts

• COIN | Operation Telic |

Weapons and materials

Hellfire Missile

Subcontractors

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The Integrity Initiative Leak revealed UK MoD subcontrator K0584 to be the Institute for Statecraft.

People

Director general of Media Communications Simon Macdowall

MoD Press Office 2009

Full article: UK/Ministry of Defence/Press Office

• Director of News James Shelley Tel: 020 721 85317
• Chief Press Officer 1 (Policy & Personnel) Nick Pett Tel: 020 721 82906
• Chief Press Officer 2 (Equipment & Operations) Miguel Head Tel: 020 721 84677
• Media Operations Team Co-ordinates media bids to visit Iraq, Afghanistan, the Balkans and other operational theatres.

Squadron Leader Roger Flynn Tel. 020 721 86200 Regional media are encouraged to contact their Regional Defence Press Officer:

• SCOTLAND Sara Reed Tel: 0131 310 2005 Mob: 07747 767963
• NORTH EAST Sean Edmunds Tel: 01904 662433 Mob: 07900 138122
• NORTH WEST Greg Stringer Tel: 01772 260219 Mob: 07899 962569
• MIDLANDS Mervyn Wynne Jones Tel: 01743 262338
• WALES Paul Barnard Tel: 01446 744044 Mob: 07876 477795
• EASTERN Eleanor Treharne-Jones Tel: 01480 425346 Mob: 07876 477803
• SOUTH EAST Susan Coulthard Tel: 020 721 83259 Mob: 07768 618495
• SOUTH WEST Jason Impey Tel: 01980 672347
• NORTHERN IRELAND Ken Johnston Tel: 02892 263261 Mob: 07740 842454

Individuals involved in propaganda

• Douglas Dearth | Paul Smyth | Maurice Tugwell | Colin Wallace | Tony Yarnold

 

Employees on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	Appointed	End	Description
Jon Day	Second Permanent Secretary	2011	2012
Jon Day	Director-General of Security Policy	2008	2011
Stephen Jolly	Director of Defence Communications	2013	2015
Amil Khan	Syria Armed Opposition Support Project Director	July 2017
Angus Taverner		2000	2004	"Media Ops Policy & Plans"
Kevin Tebbit	Permanent Under Secretary of State	July 1998	November 2005

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:An Open Letter On Defence	open letter		Michael Boyce Michael Clarke Chris Donnelly Richard Barrons David Richards Jeremy Blackham Robert Fulton Hew Strachan Edward Argles Paul Cornish Peter Dunning James Glancy Michael Graydon Antony Hichens Clifford Kamara Andrew Lambert Frank Ledwidge Tony Mason Gwythian Prins Michael Rose Cayle Royce Julian Thompson	An open letter the BBC published from a group of academics and military men written to the UK Prime Minister highlighting "global threats", warning that "security is threatened in almost every corner of the globe" and that decreased military expenditure would "damage our international credibility". Authors included at least three members of the Institute for Statecraft.
Document:How British journalists are seduced by the Ministry of Defence and spooks	Article	28 September 2021	Richard Norton-Taylor	In the world of the spooks, few in the media raised questions about the root causes of terror attacks in Britain even when Eliza Manningham-Buller, then head of MI5, warned that the invasion of Iraq would increase the terrorist threat in Britain.