John Morrison (British Intelligence Official)

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John Noble Lennox Morrison (born July 14, 1943) joined the Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS) in 1967 as a desk-level intelligence analyst. During his Ministry of Defence (MoD) career he occupied a wide range of analytical and management positions in the DIS and elsewhere, including three tours in the Cabinet Office, culminating as Secretary to the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC).

Morrison ended his official career as the senior civilian intelligence professional in the Defence Intelligence Staff, serving four years as Deputy Chief of Defence Intelligence and Head of the Defence Intelligence Analysis Staff. During this period he represented the MoD and DIS as a member of the JIC, UK representative to the NATO Intelligence Board and Head of Profession for MoD Intelligence Analyst classes.

On leaving the DIS and the civil service in 1999, Morrison was selected by the parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) to be its first Investigator. He held this position until 2004, when he was fired by the Committee for appearing on the UK BBC television programme Panorama. John Morrison is currently a Senior Fellow of the Brunel Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies at Brunel University and a joint author of the Centre's forthcoming analysis: "The Open Side of Secrecy: 10 Years of the Intelligence and Security Committee".