{"id":137,"date":"2006-12-14T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-14T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=137"},"modified":"2006-12-14T14:03:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-14T20:03:00","slug":"yes-we-do-make-plans-to-kill-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2006\/12\/yes-we-do-make-plans-to-kill-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, we do make plans to kill people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/ffximage\/2006\/12\/07\/7BondMain,0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 260px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/ffximage\/2006\/12\/07\/7BondMain,0.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Buried in the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Stevens inquiry<\/span> is a fascinating little aside, and it&#8217;s not the answer to the question &#8211; &#8216;What happened to the lead singer of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fish_%28singer%29\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Marillion<\/span><\/a>?&#8217; Here it is, from page 825:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><p>The SIS officer \u2018Fish\u2019 accepted that he wrote a proposal of assassination for consideration should a particular extremist leader, named in the proposal, come to power and be in a position to engage in genocidal activities. <span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">[Paget Note: The name is known to Operation Paget \u2013 it was not Slobodan Milosevic.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It was an idea that was proposed for discussion by his line managers, not an operational plan. There was no reference to a car accident. The officer did not have the necessary skills or knowledge to suggest detailed operational options in the proposal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">MI6 <\/span>officers really do write memos about assassinating foreigners. Presumably it&#8217;s written into the appraisals process under target-setting.<\/p>\n<p>And who exactly is on their hit list? A question perhaps for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk\/intelligence\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">ISC<\/span><\/a>? Or does writing lists keep them out of any real trouble?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buried in the Stevens inquiry is a fascinating little aside, and it&#8217;s not the answer to the question &#8211; &#8216;What happened to the lead singer of Marillion?&#8217; Here it is, from page 825: The SIS officer \u2018Fish\u2019 accepted that he wrote a proposal of assassination for consideration should a particular extremist leader, named in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[81,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}