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Richard Dearlove

Sir Richard Billing Dearlove KCMG OBE is a retired British intelligence officer who was head of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), a role known informally as "C", from 1999 until 6 May 2004. He was head of MI6 during the invasion of Iraq. He was criticised by the Iraq Inquiry for providing unverified intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to the Prime Minister, Tony Blair. He was Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge from 2004 to 2015. This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Richard_Dearlove, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License