MI6 chief’s nephew was partner of coup leader

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The Sunday Times

September 19, 2004

MI6 chief’s nephew was partner of coup leader
Nicholas Rufford


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A CLOSE relative of a former head of MI6 has emerged as having business links with Simon Mann, the former SAS officer involved in the plot to overthrow the head of an oil-rich African state.
Justin Longley, the nephew of Sir Richard Dearlove — chief of MI6 at the time the coup attempt was staged last March — was a friend and associate of Mann, the Eton-educated former soldier jailed for seven years in Zimbabwe last Friday.

Longley was working closely with Mann on goldmining, forestry and engineering ventures in Africa. He visited the continent as a representative of Logo Logistics, the company through which Mann later financed the attempt in March to overthrow Teodoro Obiang Nguema, president of Equatorial Guinea.

One mining venture in Sudan also involved Sir Mark Thatcher, who was arrested last month by South African police and accused of being among the backers of the coup. Dearlove is likely to be unhappy that controversy is dogging him even into retirement. He told the Cambridge college of which he became master last month that he was hoping for a “calmer existence” after several fraught final months as head of MI6.

A picture — the first to be published — showing him dark-suited and balding in a new edition of the Pembroke College Gazette suggests he believed he had finally escaped public attention. As “C”, Dearlove took strenuous steps throughout his career to protect his identity and gave evidence to the Hutton inquiry over a voice link. Documents seen by The Sunday Times show Longley — the son of Dearlove’s sister — and Mann were corresponding on ventures in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon and Angola. Longley accompanied Mann on a trip to Sudan in December 2002 to inspect a mining and forestry area that could have yielded millions of pounds worth of gold and teak.

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-1268917_1,00.html
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[emad]

1. CIA/commerical wing of Republican Party connection:

As well as Dearlove, Longley had uncles from both sides of his family in MI6. His mother was headmistress of Roedean, the girls’ public school. He also had connections with other members of the coup conspiracy. He was a close contact of Greg Wales, who allegedly helped plan the mission.

Longley is said to have regarded Wales as a “spook” and described him to an acquaintance as a man with influential connections in Washington who “worked for the CIA and the commercial wing of the Republican party”.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-1268917,00.html

[AP]

2. "chief of MI6 at the time the coup attempt"? So the guy lost his job in

the last few weeks? Was it for a reason related to his nephew's activities?

That seems to be an important part of this story.

[Rose Siding]

3. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=837995

[Moderator]

4. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=837995