Richard Mottram

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Richard Mottram link; (Civil servant, spook);
Born	23 April 1946
Alma mater	Keele University
	A former Security and Intelligence Co-ordinator

Richard Mottram is a spooky civil servant and "terror expert".

Activities

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".

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