Richard Dearlove

Now, my guest today is one of the world's greatest living spymasters.

Sir Richard Dearlove joined MI6 in 1966 at the age of 21.

His career took him around the world, Nairobi, Prague, Paris, Geneva, Washington, running agents under intense Cold War surveillance to directing operations at the very heart of British intelligence.

In 1999, he became chief of MI6, the role traditionally known simply as C.

Yeah.

Rubbish.

This is why the world needs Sir Richard Dearlove's book, which is not going to happen.

It's not going to happen.

I'm your co-host, Kate McCann.

And I'm Sir Richard Dearlove, former head of MI6, one of the people who's been in the room.

Hi, Kate.

Hi, Richard.

So Bathhouse's friends in the United Kingdom helped him to target Trump.

Richard Dearlove, former head of British Intel.

Christopher Steele, who worked for Dearlove.

Stefan Halper, penitentiary faces CIA operative based in the United Kingdom.

Um, but you really were betrayed by some people that you were working with.

I think it was, I was writing down, it was Sir Richard Dearlove is one of, he was an advisor to you.

And, and what was...

Who, who were the partners in this? I mean, putting aside what ended up happening, was it the, the, the, the British spy agencies with the Americans? The British spy agencies with the, with the, uh, media? Who were the players that put this on you and dragged you into this?

... uh, John Brennan, is happens to be friends with people at the University of Cambridge.

And so University of Cambridge, which I thought was a legitimate university, it's a number three university, it was actually being used as a sort of, um, cover story for a lot of CIA and MI6, uh, British intelligence agents to perform what I now understand to have been covert operations.

So it then transpired that my own professor, somebody I've known for 20 years, um, was actually also a British intelligence officer, and he was a close friend with, as you rightly said, Sir Richard Dearlove, who was a former head of MI6.

And s- Richard Dearlove was a boss, um, and he vouched for Christopher Steele, you know, the author of the famous Steele dos-

Yeah.

Uh, we recently, on our platform, really lucky to secure Sir Richard Dearlove.

Mm.

He was great.

So moving away from Universal Credit and moving onto MI6.

So Richard Dearlove was the special guest at the GWPF's annual lecture recently.

Um, he was the former chief of MI6 from 1999 to 2004.

Harry, do you want to speaks, speak to us a little bit about what he spoke about and his, uh, very worrying warnings for the UK?

Well, the road to hell was paved with good intentions.

Exactly.

I don't, don't think malicious intentions, uh, define this, just as Sir Richard Dearlove didn't suggest that the intention was malicious here, but, but it was naive-

Yeah

I'm your co-host, Kate McCann.

Hi, and I'm Sir Richard Dearlove, the former chief of MI6 British Intelligence.

And Kate, it's great to see you again.

We haven't seen each other for a few weeks.

There is more on OneDecision.com too, if commentaries and explainers are your thing.

I'm Kate McCann.

I was joined by Sir Richard Dearlove for this episode.

Thank you very much for listening.