1. John Scarlett was Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service from 2004 to 2009.
12 Facts About John Scarlett
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Fluent in French and Russian, Scarlett was educated at Epsom College and Magdalen College, Oxford, where in 1970 he received a first class degree in history.
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In 1968, John Scarlett was at Grosvenor Square during a protest against the Vietnam War in front of the United States Embassy and wrote to The Times at the time, criticising the police action.
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In 1994, after a tit-for-tat row between the British and Russian authorities, John Scarlett was expelled from Moscow where he had been MI6's station chief.
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John Scarlett later became Director of Security and Public Affairs.
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John Scarlett gave evidence at the Hutton Inquiry into the circumstances surrounding Kelly's death.
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John Scarlett became the head of SIS on 6 May 2004, before publication of the findings of the Butler Review.
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On 8 December 2009, John Scarlett gave evidence to the Iraq Inquiry.
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On 28 January 2011, John Scarlett was appointed to the board of Times Newspapers Ltd, part of News International, which publishes The Times and The Sunday Times.
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John Scarlett has previously been a governor of Epsom College, and is the former chairman of the Bletchley Park Trust.
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John Scarlett was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1987 Birthday Honours and a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 2001 New Year Honours.
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John Scarlett was promoted to Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 2007 New Year Honours.