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John Weir

::John Weir is a former RUC Sergeant. He is also a convicted criminal: between 1980 and 1992, he served a prison sentence for his part in the murder of one William Strathearn. During and after his imprisonment he had made a number of allegations involving members of the RUC, UDR and RUC Reserve, as well as known loyalist paramilitaries. His allegations were based on personal knowledge as well as on information from third parties. His claims have been the subject of inquiries by the RUC and An Garda Síochána. 
::He claims to have been part of a group of policemen, UDR officers and loyalist extremists who carried out a series of attacks in the mid-1970s. He says many of their operations were planned and prepared at a farm owned by RUC reserve officer James Mitchell at Glenanne, Co. Armagh. He claims that both Mitchell and UVF member Stewart Young confessed their own involvement in the Dublin and Monaghan bombings to him, and gave him the names of a number of others who they said were also involved. 
::Having regard to his own admitted conduct, and his relationships with those with whom he was admittedly involved at Glenanne, John Weir was certainly in a position through conversations and observation to have obtained the information which he now claims to be true. While it is possible that he obtained all these details from other sources since his conviction, this is unlikely. The amount of details on which he has been proven correct suggests that his sources were authentic and contemporary.
::Bearing in mind that Weir was an active member of the security services, and that his allegations relating to the period from May to August 1976 have received considerable confirmation, the Inquiry believes that his evidence overall is credible, and is inclined to accept significant parts of it. Some reservation is appropriate in relation to his allegations against police officers having regard to his possible motive in going public, and also in relation to his own part in the offences which he relates. 
::This view is one based also on a meeting with Weir, in which he came over as someone with considerable knowledge of the events which were taking place in the areas where he was stationed and who was prepared to tell what he knew. The Garda officers who interviewed him were of the same opinion. In the light of all the above, the Inquiry agrees with the view of An Garda Síochána that Weir’s allegations regarding the Dublin and Monaghan bombings must be treated with the utmost seriousness.Interim Report on the Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry into the Dublin and Monaghan Bombings of 1974 (December 2003), Appendix D: MR JUSTICE HENRY BARRON’S STATEMENT TO OIREACHTAS JOINT COMMITTEE, 10 DECEMBER 2003.
==External Resources==
*Frank Connolly, John Weir: 'I'm lucky to be above the ground', 16 November 2006.
* John Weir's Affadavit Statement by John Weir 03.01.99. [Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 27 January 2003.]
==References==
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John Weston (UK businessman)

John Weston is Chairman of Spirent plc and formerly Chief Executive, BAe Systems. 
Weston was appointed Non-executive Chairman of Spirent plc with effect from 7 November 2002.
Weston (51 in 2002) was formerly Chief Executive of BAe Systems (May 1998 to March 2002). He is also Chairman of UFI, formerly known as the University for Industry, which is responsible for the government's learndirect network 'across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and UK online centres in England. learndirect and UK online centres form a government-backed network of several thousand centres supporting e-learning and e-services.
Weston is Chairman of iSoft plc, a supplier of software applications to the healthcare sectors in the UK and internationally which has been responsible for the disastrous implementation of the NHS IT system, leading to the resignation of its Chief Executive Tim Whiston in June 2006.
He is also Chairman of Acra Controls, a Dublin based manufacturer of digital data collection systems for flight test instrumentation systems; and until April 2005 was Chairman of Inbis plc, a design engineering business, mainly in the aerospace and nuclear fields.
Prior to 2002 Weston spent 32 years in the Aerospace and Defence Industry, concluding as Chief Executive BAe Systems. He was educated at Kings School Worcester and Trinity Hall Cambridge, where he read engineering.
==Affiliations==
*Ditchley Foundation, Governor and Council member
*Royal United Services Institute, Vice President
*German British Forum, Director
*Commander of the Order of the Pole Star (Sweden)
* Council member of the Royal Academy of Engineering
* Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society
* Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts
==Notes==
* Mark Ballard 'NHS IT fiasco claims scalp at iSoft: iSoft CEO resigns after calamitous start to the year' The Register,Published Thursday 15th June 2006 12:41 GMT
John Weston (ex UK diplomat)

Sir John Weston (13 April 1938) joined the Board of British Telecom on 1 October 1998, and the board of Rolls-Royce too. 
He has lived and worked in Europe, the USA and Asia during his Diplomatic Service career. In London he was Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet and Political Director in the Foreign Office. He served as British Ambassador to NATO 1992 to 1995, and subsequently as British Ambassador to the United Nations in New York until he retired in July 1998. He is also a non-executive director of Hakluyt & Co and honorary president of the UK-wide Community Foundation Network. Chairman of Governors of Sherborne School and Honorary Fellow of Worcester College Oxford. He is was former non-executive director of BT Group plc from 1998 to 2002. Age 65 (in 2003). 
 
==Career==
*Foreign Office officer 1962-1998. 
**United Kingdom Ambassador to NATO 1992-1995. 
**Ambassador to the United Nations, sitting on the Security Council, 1995-1998. 
*Non-executive director of BT Group plc from 1998 to 2002. 
*Director of Rolls-Royce since 1998. 
*Governor of the Ditchley Foundation. 
*Non-executive director of Hakluyt & Co Ltd., a private intelligence group set up and managed by former or present MI6 agents. 
*Member of the the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. 
*Honorary President of the Community Foundation Network (UK). 
*Chairman of Governors of Sherborne School, and 
*Honorary Fellow of Worcester College Oxford. 
*Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George.
*Pilgrims Society
==notes==
#Annual Report BT, 2000 and 2001. and Annual Report Rolls- Roys 2003
# Pilgrim Society Members list.
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John Wheatley Centre

The John Wheatley Centre was a think tank based in Edinburgh. It has now been renamed the Centre for Scottish Public Policy.
==Publications==
To Make the Parliament of Scotland a Model for Democracy prepared for the John Wheatley Centre
by Bernard Crick and David Millar. The publication (1997) is a revised version of Standing Orders for a Scottish Parliament prepared by the authors in 1991 for the Scottish Constitutional Convention.
===About the authors===
Bernard Crick, founding secretary of the Study of Parliament group in 1963 and author of The Reform of Parliament (1963) and of In Defence of Politics, is Emeritus Professor of Politics, London University and an Honorary Fellow of the Politics Department of the University of Edinburgh. David Millar OBE, was formerly a clerk of the House of Commons, then Director of Research at the European Parliament, now an honorary fellow of the Europa Institute of the University of Edinburgh.
Category:Scottish Think Tanks
John White

John White is a prominent loyalist and alleged informer.
==Killings==
In 1978 , White received a life sentence after he admitted the 1973 killings of SDLP politician Paddy Wilson and civil servant Irene Andrews. Wilson was shot and stabbed 32 times and Andrews stabbed 19 times in what a judge called "a frenzied attack, a psychotic outburst." The killing had been claimed by the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF), a cover name for the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) of which White was a member.David McKittrick, Seamus Kelters, Brian Feeney, Chris Thornton, and David McVea, Lost Lives, Mainstream Publishing, 2004, pp.371-374. 
==Political career==
White was released from prison in 1992, and went on to become a prominent member of the UDA-aligned Ulster Democratic Party. He served on the party's Stormont talks team and met John Major in Downing Street in 1996.David McKittrick, Seamus Kelters, Brian Feeney, Chris Thornton, and David McVea, Lost Lives, Mainstream Publishing, 2004, pp.371-374. 
White was closely associated with loyalist figure Johnny Adair and was forced to leave Northern Ireland in February 2003, following a feud between Adair's "C Company" on the lower Shankill and other sections of the UDA.Brian Rowan, Loyalist White a police informer: Special Branch recruited killer, Belfast Telegraph, 21 February 2006.
==Alleged informer==
In February 2006, Brian Rowan reported that White had been recruited as an informer after leaving prison.
::A senior intelligence source said during the summer of 2004 that White was an informer ? a covert human intelligence source.
::And his coded details are believed to have been among those stolen in the robbery at Special Branch offices at Castlereagh in March 2002.
::In recent days, another senior security source appeared to confirm White's role as a Special Branch informer.
::Asked if there was any doubt in his mind about what was being suggested, he replied: "Not a lot."Brian Rowan, Loyalist White a police informer: Special Branch recruited killer, Belfast Telegraph, 21 February 2006.
At an SDLP seminar in March 2008, Rowan questioned the use that the security forces had made of White:
::White, says Rowan, was responsible for pushing aside political figures such as Gary McMichael and Davy Adams – both widely seen as peace-makers within loyalism at the time of the 1994 ceasefires. White has been a close associate of the infamous Johnny Adair, a loyalist paramilitary alleged to have been responsible for numerous deaths and who was at the heart of repeated violent feuds within loyalism. Rowan seems to suggest that Special Branch was active in pulling the strings of this 'puppet' in pursuance of its own objectives.Patrick Corrigan, Brian Rowan and the curious case of the 'dirty war', Belfast and Beyond blog, Amnesty International, 1 April 2009.
==Notes==
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John Whiting

John Whiting has been Tax Policy Director at the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) since 2009 and is also a past president.
He is also Tax Director of the Office of Tax Simplification.OTS, Who We Are, accessed April 2011. Whiting had a long career with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) where he was a tax partner for 25 years and is a regular speaker and commentator on a wide variety of taxation topics as well as being a member of the first-tier Tax Tribunal. He was awarded the OBE in 2008 for services to the tax profession. OTS, Who We Are, accessed Sept 2011. 
==Views==
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John Whittaker

John Whittaker (born 07 June 1945, Oldham) is a former British MEP (2004-2009) from UK Independence Party.European Parliament, MEP Directory: John Whittaker, accessed 05 December 2010.
==Affiliations==
===Parliamentary Affiliations===
:Member:
:	20.07.2004 / 13.07.2009 : Independence/Democracy Group
:	21.07.2004 / 14.01.2007 : Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
:	15.01.2007 / 30.01.2007 : Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
:	31.01.2007 / 01.02.2009 : Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
:Substitute:
:	14.10.2004 / 08.06.2005 : Temporary committee on policy challenges and budgetary means of the enlarged Union 2007-2013European Parliament, MEP Directory: John Whittaker, accessed 05 December 2010.
==Record and Controversies==
===Declaration of Financial Interests===
*Part-time lecturer (unpaid), Lancaster University.European Parliament, Declaration of Members' Financial Interests: John Whittaker, 01 July 2008, accessed 07 February 2009.
===Record of Parliamentary Votes===
==Personal Information==
===Curriculum Vitae===
*BSc. (Physics) (1966). 
*PhD (Physics) (1980). 
*BA (Economics) (1982). 
*Employed in universities and business. Economist, Lancaster University (since 1996).
*Member of the UKIP National Executive.
*Has published articles on monetary policy, mathematical economics and EMU.
===Contact===	
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:John.Whittaker AT lancaster.ac.uk
:Website: 
:http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/economics/profiles/john-whittaker
==Resources==
*European Parliament, Declaration of Members' Financial Interests: John Whittaker, 01 July 2008, accessed 07 February 2009.
*European Parliament, MEP Directory: John Whittaker, accessed 07 February 2009.
*European Parliament, MEP Directory: John Whittaker, accessed 05 December 2010.
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John Whittingdale

John Whittingdale is the Conservative MP for Maldon.John Whittingdale, www.parliament.uk, accessed 14 October 2011.
In May 2015 he was announced as the secretary of state in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and a member of the Cabinet Office. BBC News John Whittingdale becomes UK culture secretary, 11 May 2015, accessed 11 May 2015.
Whittingdale left government in July 2016 following new Prime Minister Theresa May's extensive cabinet reshuffle. 'Whos in and whos out? May's new cabinet' 14 July 2016, BBC News, accessed 15 July 2016 
==Dinner with lobbyists==
Details of the attendees and seating plans of the Conservative's 2013 summer ball, an event where tickets cost up to £12,000 each and allows attendees to sit at the table with ministers, were leaked by the Guardian. It revealed that Whittingdale sat at a table hosted by David Burnside, which included Samantha and David Cameron and one of Vladimir Putin's aides Vasily Shestakov. Melanie Newman Russian front: Cameron’s encounter with Putin friend at Tory party The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, 1 July 2014, accessed 17 October 2014 
==Affiliations==
* Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Intellectual Property Group 2010-2011.
==Special advisers and aides==
*Carrie Symonds
*Mimi Macejkova
*Ray Gallagher
==External resources==
*Jane Merrick, Brian Brady, James Hanning and Andy McCorkell, Revealed: Senior MP's secret links to Murdoch, The Independent, 17 July 2011.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc

John Wiley & Sons Inc is a global publishing company that specializes in academic publishing and markets its products to professionals and consumers, students and instructors in higher education, and researchers and practitioners in scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly fields. 
==Affiliations==
John Wiley & Sons Inc is a donor to the science Media Centre. SMC, Funding, accessed 29 September 2013. See also Science Media Centre - Funding
==Contact==
Website: http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-302269.html
==Notes==
Category:Science Media Centre
John Wilkinson (Far-Right activist)

John Wilkinson is an administrator of the Scottish Defence League facebook group, he is also BNP member and campaigner.John Wilkinson (Dumfries), BNP Membership List, Wikileaks.org, Accessed 07-December-2009. Wilkinson can be seen on his Facebook site leafleting for the BNP in the 2009 European Elections. Wilkinson also appears on the leaked BNP members list which was posted on Wikileaks.John Wilkinson (Dumfries), BNP Membership List, Wikileaks.org, Accessed 07-December-2009
==Affiliations==
Scottish Defence League | BNP
==Resources==
*Steven Harkins, Paranoid Scottish Defence League abandons Facebook due to fear of 'fakes', Spinwatch, 7 March 2010
==Notes==
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John Williams (MoD)

John Williams is a former special adviser to the Cabinet Office, the Department for Work and Pensions, the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and the Ministry of Defence.
He was then an independent consultant to Fujitsu Services Ltd, Equiniti Ltd and Odgers Berndtson, the owner of lobbying company Outcome First Ltd and is now the managing director of Bechtel Management Company Ltd.
==Career==
Williams was a director at New Local Government Network in 1998, worked in business development at Serco in 2002 and a director of public services at the Confederation of British Industry in 2003. John Williams Linkedin, accessed 27 November 2014 
In May 2005 Williams entered the government as a special adviser to the Cabinet Office, then to the Department for Work and Pensions in November 2005, the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform in June 2007 and finally the Ministry of Defence from October 2008 to June 2009. 
==Revolving door==
In November 2009 he took up roles as an independent consultant to Fujitsu Services Ltd, Equiniti Ltd and Odgers Berndtson. The roles were approved by ACOBA "subject to the condition that, for 12 months from his last day of service, he should not be personally involved in lobbying UK Government Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers, on behalf of his new client". Eleventh Report 2009-2010 Advisory Committee on Business Appointments, accessed 27 November 2014 
Between November 2009 and February 2012 he was the owner of lobbying company Outcome First Ltd. 
He is now the managing director of Bechtel Management Company Ltd, a role he has held since June 2014. 
==Education==
*Political & International Relations, Lancaster University 1991 – 1994 
==Notes==
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John Williams (UK PR operative)

John Williams, an independent consultant specialising in corporate marketing and reputation, was co-founder of Fishburn Hedges its former Chairman, having started his career in consumer advertising with J. Walter Thompson. At Fishburn Hedges, he is said to have developed a particular interest in corporate social responsibility and also built a practice serving the not-for-profit sector. He worked for five years with Shell on their global stakeholder engagement programme. 
He is currently Chairman of the governance and leadership think tank, Tomorrow's Company, a board member of Business in the Community and was, until recently, deputy Chair of ChildLine. 
Williams is currently a Commissioner with the Charity Commission, as one of the five non-executive Commissioners responsible for the regulation of 190,000 charities in England and Wales.http://www.executivephilanthropy.com/speakers.html
==Notes==
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John Williams (UK spin doctor)

John Williams was a head of news, press secretary and director of communications in three successive UK Foreign Secretaries at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office until 2006. 
He is now a director of West One Communications, 'an international consultancy in strategic communications and media relations, mainly to governments'. John Williams Director at West One Communications, LinkedIn profile, accessed 24 September 2014 
==Activities==
Williams reportedly wrote the first draft of the government dossier on WMD.
:Mr Williams, press secretary to three foreign secretaries, said that the dossier would show how wrong the Blair team was about Saddam's alleged possession of WMD. Mr Williams said: "The argument was that here was someone who had been known to possess illegal weapons. We regarded him as a threat." He added: "The document will show the mindset that everyone had. It was wrong and we know that now."
 
:The Government has yet to decide whether to publish the draft dossier, in line with an information tribunal judgment last month. Ministers have insisted that the dossier was entirely the work of intelligence agencies, but Mr Williams's role remains unclear. Mr Williams denies that he came up with the claim that Saddam could have launched a WMD strike within 45 minutes. He said: "I was a member of the team looking at it.... I used the available information to write it, but [intelligence chief] John Scarlett was then commissioned to write it instead."Ian Griggs and Brian Brady 'Dodgy dossier' was 'wrong', its author says Independent on Sunday, 17 February 2008
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John Wilsey

General Sir John Wilsey was General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland from 1990 to 1993.Roles of Prominent People Listed by Position Held, CAIN Web Service, University of Ulster, accessed 22 November 2009.
Asked in January 1993 about the Army's use of loyalist agent Brian Nelson, Wilsey said he was "certainly not ashamed of Nelson's role".Raymond Murray, State Violence: Northern Ireland 1969-1997, CAIN Web Service, accessed 22 November 1999.
==External resources==
*Philip Jacobson, Fighting talk from Ulster's frontline, MailOnline, 7 July 2011.
*Liam Clarke, Freddie Scappaticci was our most valuable spy in IRA during the Troubles: British Army chief, Belfast Telegraph, 20 April 2012.
==Notes==
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John Woodrow

Major-General John Woodrow, MBE, (1919-1988) was Director of Army Security from 1973 to 1978.Obituary of Maj-Gen John Woodrew, The The Times, 24 March 1988.
Albert John Woodrow was born at Nottingham on June 3, 1919 and educated at High Storrs and Sheffield University.Obituary of Maj-Gen John Woodrew, The The Times, 24 March 1988.
He was commissioned into the Royal Signals in 1940. He served in North-West Europe and in Burma during the war, when he was mentioned in despatches. After the war he became a member of the British Services Mission to Burma. In 1949 he and his family were captured by the Karen rebels and held for several weeks. After their release they returned to England and he was made an MBE.Obituary of Maj-Gen John Woodrew, The The Times, 24 March 1988.
Woodrow later served with the Canadian Army, at Rivers, Manitoba, and with the British Army on the Rhine. He commanded 1st Division Signals Regiment from 1961 until 1963, when he went as a member of the British Army Staff in Washington. In 1965 he returned to the UKto command the Training Brigade Royal Signals at Catterick.Obituary of Maj-Gen John Woodrew, The The Times, 24 March 1988.
From 1968 to 1970 he was Army Director of Public Relations, and from 1970-3 General officer Commanding Wales. He was Colonel Commandant of the Royal Corps of Signals from 1970 until 1977.Obituary of Maj-Gen John Woodrew, The The Times, 24 March 1988.
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