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This seminar will examine the role of the intelligence services in the 21st century, the politicisation of intelligence, if we can truly know what our intelligence services do, and possible refor
Start Time:
March 4, 2010 - 9:30am
End Time:
March 4, 2010 - 10:30am
Speaker(s):
Sir David Omand (first UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator as Permanent Secretary in the Cabinet Office), Prof Michael Rainsborough (Professor of Strategic Theory, King's College London), others TBC
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Founded in 1921, the Council on Foreign Relations is the leading independent national membership organization and nonpartisan center for dedicated academic analysis of events on the world stage, and the subsequent foreign policy choices facing the United States and other governments. 
