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John Colvin

John Colvin (1922-2003) was an MI6 officer.John Colvin, telegraph.co.uk, 8 October 2003.
Colvin was born in Tokyo, the son of Admiral Sir Ragnar Colvin, of a distinghuished family of Indian civil servants. He was educate at St Aubyn's school, and the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, which he entered as a cadet in 1935. He served with the navy throughout the second world war, and was aboard the battle cruiser Repulse when it was sunk by the Japanese off Singapore in December 1942. by the end of the war he was leading a small group of guerrillas behind enemy lines in Vietnam.Desmond Seward, John Colvin, 'The Guardian, 15 October 2003.
He read modern languages at London University between 1949 and 1950.Desmond Seward, John Colvin, 'The Guardian, 15 October 2003.
Colvin joined the Diplomatic Service in 1951. The Telegraph's account suggests he was in reality an MI6 officer from the beginning of his diplomatic career.John Colvin, telegraph.co.uk, 8 October 2003.
His first postings were to Oslo and Vienna.Desmond Seward, John Colvin, 'The Guardian, 15 October 2003.
He was posted to the British high commission in Kuala Lumpur in 1958.Desmond Seward, John Colvin, 'The Guardian, 15 October 2003. While there he recruited hill-tribes as counter-insurgency forces in the Malayan emergency.John Colvin, telegraph.co.uk, 8 October 2003.
On returning to London, he played an important role in directing the covert conflict with Indonesia in Borneo.Desmond Seward, John Colvin, 'The Guardian, 15 October 2003.
From 1965 to 1967, he served as British consul in Hanoi.Desmond Seward, John Colvin, 'The Guardian, 15 October 2003.
 
In 1971, Colvin he was appointed ambassador to Mongolia.Desmond Seward, John Colvin, 'The Guardian, 15 October 2003.
He left Ulan Bator in 1974, to become political counsellor in Washington.Desmond Seward, John Colvin, 'The Guardian, 15 October 2003.
He retired in 1980, becoming director for international relations with the Chase Manhattan Bank in Hongkong.Desmond Seward, John Colvin, 'The Guardian, 15 October 2003. In this role, he worked directly for David Rockefeller providing analysis and developing high-level contacts across the Asia-Pacific region.John Colvin, telegraph.co.uk, 8 October 2003.
He later worked as a writer, reviewing for the New Statesman, the Spectator and the Economist.Desmond Seward, John Colvin, 'The Guardian, 15 October 2003. 
==Publications==
*Twice Around The World (1991)
*No Ordinary Men: The Story Of The Battle Of Kohima (1994)
*Lions Of Judah (1997)
*Nomonhan (1999)
*Decisive Battles(2003)
==Connections==
*Admiral Sir Ragnar Colvin - Father.
*Elizabeth Anne Manifold - First wife.
*Mark Colvin - Son.
*Moranna Cazenove - Second wife.
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John Conroy

John Conroy is a TV producer and journalist.European precaution punishes Brazil, anbio.org website, acc 8 June 2010 He is associated with the libertarian anti-environmental LM network, being on the management committee of WORLDwrite " WORLDwrite Annual Report 2008/9", Charity Commission website, accessed 31 May 2010 and having spoken in a Spiked debate "European precaution punishes Brazil", Spiked website, accessed 31 May 2010.
==GM crops==
He previously lived in Brazil, where he was active in lobbying the government to abandon its moratorium on genetically modified (GM) soy, which he said was based on "unknown, hypothetical risks of GM crops" raised by "media scare[s]".John Conroy, European precaution punishes Brazil, anbio.org website, acc 8 June 2010 His biographical note on the website of the Brazilian biotech association, ANBio, says:
:He has spoken on GM at the United Nations University Biotechnology Programme for Latin America and the Caribbean, the Oswaldo Fiocruz Public Health Institute Biosafety Course, and the Brazilian Biotechnology Congress/Latin American Symposium on Biosafety.John Conroy, European precaution punishes Brazil, anbio.org website, acc 8 June 2010
In an article on the ANBio website, entitled, "European precaution punishes Brazil", Conroy laments, "As long as the precautionary principle guides UK and EU policy, GM production in countries like Brazil will be paralysed."John Conroy, European precaution punishes Brazil, anbio.org website, acc 8 June 2010
==Resources==
*Website: Johnconroy'
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John Cooper

Lt Gen John Cooper was General Officer Commanding Multi-National Division South-East, Dec 05 – Jul 06 and Senior British Military Representative in Iraq, March 2008 – March 2009.
New witnesses named, Iraq Inquiry, 30 November 2009.
==External Resources==
*Iraq Inquiry, Oral Evidence, 15 December 2009.
==Notes==
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John Cope

John Cope, Lord Cope of Berkeley, is a Conservative peer.Lord Cope of Berkeley, www.parliament.uk, accessed 7 Match 2011.
==Northern Ireland==
Cope served as a Minister of State in the Northern Ireland Office from 25 July 1989 to 28 Noveber 1990.David Butler and Gareth Butler, Twentieth Century British Political Facts 1900-2000, Macmillan, 2000, p.41.
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John Coyle

John Coyle was a well-known City PR man and former journalist. He died in 2006.
==Career==
Coyle joined forces with Brian Basham, founder of the PR firm Broad Street Group in 1976 and worked with him until 1988. According to PR Week:
:together they built Broad Street into a pounds 15 million public company with a reputation for high-profile and aggressive PR, together with an equally high-octane lifestyle. Steve Bevan, Profile: Brian Basham, Warwick Corporate: PR man who’s up for a fight - Brian Basham faces 1997 with expansion, instead of libel suits, on his mind, PR Week, 10 January 1997, acc 27 January 2012 
Another account after his death summed up his 'colourful' life and career:
:Johnny was a colossus who bestrode City PR in the 1980s. He built Broad Street Associates with Brian Basham and between them brought a new meaning to the contested takeover bids of that boom era. Johnny started half-a-dozen other PR companies, married and divorced many times, made two fortunes and lost them both, was declared bankrupt and probably made as many enemies as he did friends. Coyle a tough player in corporate world, Profile Extra, CIPR web journal Publication Date : 30 June 2006
==Companies==
*Barbican Corporate Communications - formed in August 1994 in partnership with John Emerson, a one- time director of Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising Dominic Prince, Bunhill John Coyle] The Independent, 28 August 2004 
*Square Mile Communications -formed after he left Broad Street Associates in 1988
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John Crackett

John Crackett has been a non-executive board member of the UK Office for Nuclear Regulation since July 2011. Before this he was Managing Director of Central Networks – the UK’s second-largest distributor of electricity - and also a E.ON UK Board member responsible for Safety, Health and Environment. ONR Board, ONR website, undated, accessed 21 June 2012 
In a 2010 article in The Times Crackett, while Head of Networks at E.ON, criticised proposals by Ofgem regarding payment of investment in the energy network:
:“We can cut carbon, we can cut costs, but we can’t do both,” said John Crackett, networks chief at Eon.
:“We need to have fair returns that are attractive to investors. If they are not attractive, we are not going to reach the [government] goals because companies won’t invest.”, "Fortson, Danny Scottish Power at war with Ofgem, The Times", accessed 8 April 2010
==Affiliations==
*Eon
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John Craven

John Craven was head of the mining group Lonmin. Previously, he was chairman of Deutsche Morgan Grenfell. 
He is also a donor to the Taxpayers' Alliance.Robert Booth, Front: Politics: Big money alliance at heart of the low tax campaign: Taxpayers Alliance portrays itself as voice of the people, but where does its £1m funding come from?, the Guardian, 10-October-2009
==Affiliations==
*Taxpayers' Alliance, donor 
*Economists for Free Trade, advisor 
*Open Europe, supporter 
*Global Vision, business supporter
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John Cryer

John Cryer has been the Labour MP for Leyton and Wanstead since 2010. He was the MP for Hornchurch from 1997 to 2005.John Cryer, www.parliament.uk, accessed 28 October 2013.
He is the son of former Labour MPs Ann Cryer and Bob Cryer.Sarah Priddy, PIL: Current Members Related to Other Current or Former Members - Commons Library Standard Note, 13 September 2013.
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John Cummins

John Cummins has worked as the head of youth television at Channel 4. Cummins also founded and ran the media firm Hydra Associates.Guardian Media, YOOF'S REBEL ROUSERS: NETWORK 7'S CLASS OF '87, The Guardian, 12-May-1997, Accessed 08-August-2009.
==Affiliations==
Hydra Associates | Channel 4
==Notes==
John D. Bennett

John D. Bennett is a CIA officer. He was appointed head of the National Clandestine Service in 2010.Peter Finn, Retired CIA veteran will return to head clandestine service, Washington Post, 22 July 2010.
==External resources==
*Mark Hosenball, From Islamabad Station Chief to New CIA Spymaster, The Daily Beast, 21 July 2010.
==Notes==
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John D. Miller

John D. Miller (1902-1977) was a British journalist and propagandist based mainly in the US.
According to an obituary in the Washington Post:
:John Duncan Miller, 75, former Washington correspondent for The Times of London and The Economist, died Saturday in England, while visting friends in Sussex. Mr. Miller was correspondent here for the two publications from 1947 to 1954, and was known to friends as a highly knowledgeable observer of the United States, who was quick to defend it against critics.
:From 1955 to 1968 he was special representative in Europe of the World Bank, and subsequently he was European Representative of Baring Bros. & Co., Ltd., the investment bankers. Mr. Miller was educated at Cambridge, and served during World War II on the British Army Staff here, and as a staff officer in India. From 1945 to 1947 he was director of British Information Services in the midwest, with headquarters in Chicago.'John D. Miller, British Journalist', The Washington Post, May 23, 1977, Monday, Final Edition, SECTION: Metro; C4
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John D. Rockefeller Jr

John Rockefeller Jr. (1874 - 1960), was the only son of 'celebrated' industrialist John D. Rockefeller Sr. (1839 - 1937), who founded Standard Oil out of Ohio in 1870. Rockefeller Sr. became extremely wealthy as the value of oil soared. He proceeded to found several groups which were concerned with medical research and education. Rockefeller Sr. also founded Rockefeller University, and The University of Chicago. He was a dedicated Northern Baptist and supported the church.
Standard Oil was convicted of monopolistic practices in 1911, and subsequently broke up. Upon his death, John Jr. was left in charge of his father's various philanthropic foundations.
He was a director of Standard Oil, and of JP Morgan's U.S. Steel Co. He was involved in a scandal with the head of Standard Oil, before its collapse, John Archbold. He was also reported to have made an attempt to bribe two congressmen. In an attempt to redeem his reputation in the public eye, he abdicated his positions with both of the aforementioned companies in 1910.
The 'Ludlow Massacre' occurred in 1914 in a coal mine in Colorado, where 20 people lost their lives, and Rockefeller Jr. was required to testify the following year. At the time he was advised by William Lyon MacKenzie King and Ivy Lee, both headliners in early PR history. He later admitted fault in his testimony.
He established the Rockefeller Center shortly afterwards in New York, and became one of the largest real estate owners in New York City.
"He was influential in attracting leading blue chip corporations as tenants in the complex, including GE and its then affiliates RCA, NBC and RKO, as well as Standard Oil of New Jersey (Esso), and Associated Press and Time Inc, as well as branches of the then Chase National Bank, now JP Morgan Chase.
The family office, of which he was in charge, called now formally "Rockefeller Family and Associates" (and informally, Room 5600), shifted from Standard Oil headquarters to the 56th floor of what is now the landmark GE Building, upon its completion in 1933.
In 1921, he received about 10% of the shares of the Equitable Trust Company from his father, making him the bank's largest shareholder. Subsequently, in 1930, the Equitable merged with the Chase National Bank, now JP Morgan Chase, and became at that time the largest bank in the world. Although his stockholding was reduced to about 4% following this merger, he was still the largest shareholder in what became known as the "Rockefeller bank". As late as the 1960s his family still retained about 1% of the bank's shares, by which time his son David had become the bank's president."John Rockefeller Jr. Wikipedia, accessed 21 October 2008
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John Dalli

John Dalli (born 05 October 1948) is a Maltese politician from the centre-right Nationalist Party and former European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy (09.02.2010-16.10.2012). He served as Cabinet Minister in various Maltese governments between 1987 and 2010.
==Record and controversies==
===Bribery scandal===
The EU's anti-fraud office OLAF (Office de Lutte Antifraude) found that a Maltese businessman had tried to use his contacts with Commissioner John Dalli for financial gain by offering to influence future EU legislation on tobacco products.Reuters, "EU health commissioner resigns over anti-fraud case," 16.10.2012 Reuters, accessed 04.12.2012. After the anti-fraud inquiry, Dalli resigned with immediate effect as the European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy.
According to the press statement by the European Commission, the OLAF "found that the Maltese entrepreneur had approached the company using his contacts with Mr Dalli and sought to gain financial advantages in exchange for influence over a possible future legislative proposal on snus. No transaction was concluded between the company and the entrepreneur and no payment was made. The OLAF report did not find any conclusive evidence of the direct participation of Mr Dalli but did consider that he was aware of these events."European Commission, Press statement on behalf of the European Commission, 16.10.2012, accessed 04.12.2012.
Having rejected OLAF's findings, Dalli argued that "he is the victim of a tobacco lobbying campaign to block tough new legislation - the Tobacco Directive - to make smoking less attractive."BBC News, "EU's Dalli insists on innocence in tobacco scandal," 19.10.2012 BBC, accessed 04.12.2012.
==Notes==
John Davidson

John Colin Campbell Davidson (23 February 1889 - 11 December 1970), known as John Campbell Davidson or J.C.C. Davidson, was a Conservative politician and propagandist. He was the Deputy Chief Civil Commissioner at the UK Government's strike breaking organisation the Supply and Transport Committee during the General Strike, and was responsible for Government propaganda. Portcullis Archive Catalogue, Papers of John Campbell Davidson MP (1889-1970) RefNo DAV/173 [Accessed 29 March 2010] He recruited Joseph Ball to run the Conservative Party's surveillance and propaganda section known as the Intelligence Department, which Ball renamed the Publicity Department. Philip M. Taylor, British propaganda in the 20th century: Selling Democracy (Edinburgh University Press, 1999) p.134.
Davidson was Honorary Adviser on Commercial Relations at the Ministry of Information in 1940, and in 1941 the Ministry's Controller of Production. ‘DAVIDSON’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [Accessed 28 March 2010]
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John Denham

John Denham was the Labour MP for Southampton Itchen from 1992 to 2015.
In 2011 Denham announced he would not be standing in the 2015 general election. Dan Kerins Denham to stand down as MP Daily Echo, 7 October 2011, 14 May 2015. He was replaced by Rowenna Davis who lost to the Conservative Party's Royston Smith by 2,316 votes. BBC News Southampton Itchen, accessed 14 May 2015.
==Parliamentary roles==
He was Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills 2007-09, and Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 2009-10.Rt Hon Mr John Denham, www.parliament.uk, accessed 15 May 2013.
==Donations==
In 2011 Denham received donations of £4,697.71 and £4,657.95 from private equity firm owner Nigel Doughty. Electoral Commission, Donation Search, accessed 4 March 2015 
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John Deverell

John Deverell was the former head of MI5 in Northern Ireland. He was killed in the Mull of Kintyre Chinook crash in 1994.Liam Clarke, Key evidence on FRU barred, Sunday Times, 12 September 2004.
==F Branch==
As head of MI5's F2 section, Deverell was seconded in October 1979 to run a Cabinet Office unit to forestall industrial disruption. He was able to forestall a strike at the Longbridge car plant by passing details of a CPGB meeting opposing British Leyland's recovery plan to the company's chairman, Sir Michael Edwardes, who passed them in turn to AUEW president Terry Duffy and the Sunday Times. Deverell later returned to his Security Service post, but retained responsibility for his industrial operations until he was posted out of F branch in July 1981, at which point they came under the control of the new Director F, David Ranson.Christopher Andrew, Defence of the Realm, The Authorized History of MI5, Allen Lane, 2009, pp.671-673.
Documents released by the Margaret Thatcher Foundation, show that in March 1980, Deverell looked at the role of Vic Allen and the National Miners’ Left Club in the National Union of Mineworkers, but the material was apparently not felt to be strong enough to embarass the NUM left.Margaret Thatcher, the NUM, and the mysterious Mr Deverell, Margaret Thatcher Foundation, 15 September 2013.
According to Stephen Dorril, Deverell was head of F5 in 1980, when he was approached by the Cabinet Office Intelligence Unit, about a proposal that eventually became Operation Ward.Stephen Dorril, The Silent Conspiracy: Inside the Intelligence Services in the 1990s, Mandarin, 1994, p.195.
==Director K==
As director of K Branch in 1983, Deverell led the investigation which identified Michael Bettaney as the MI5 officer attempting to pass information to the KGB.Christopher Andrew, Defence of the Realm, The Authorized History of MI5, Allen Lane, 2009, p.715.
In 1985, Deverell was considered for the post of Director General of MI5, but was ultimately passed over in favour of Sir Antony Duff.Christopher Andrew, Defence of the Realm, The Authorized History of MI5, Allen Lane, 2009, p.557.
==DCI Northern Ireland==
Deverell played a key role in opening up secret contacts with the IRA in 1990.Rosie Cowan, MI5 man 'had hand in Ulster peace', Guardian, 15 June 2001.
According to the Guardian, Deverell was a Deputy Director General of the Security Service at the time of his death.Sally Weale and Owen Boycott, CHINOOK DISASTER: COUNTING THE COST OF THE SENIOR FIGURES IN BATTLE AGAINST TERRORISM, Guardian, 4 June 1994. However, the official history of MI5 by Christopher Andrew states he was still DCI.Christopher Andrew, Defence of the Realm, The Authorized History of MI5, Allen Lane, 2009, p.785.
==External Resources==
*Rosie Cowan, MI5 man 'had hand in Ulster peace', Guardian, 15 June 2001.
==Notes==
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John Dick

According to the Europac website:
:John Dick's career has spanned communications programmes in the Middle East, the UK and continental Europe, promoting business in these markets and helping to improve the image of the Arab world in the West. He established an advertising agency in Jeddah and spent ten years living in Saudi Arabia. John has extensive experience and connections with the Saudi Arabian Royal family, government, commerce and the media. 
:In the UK, he has been adviser to the Saudi ministry of Information, acted as UK commercial manager for a group of companies in Saudi Arabia and provided advice to British firms wishing to do business in the Kingdom. He is also a freelance writer.The People, accessed 28 October 2007
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==Affiliations==
*Defence Public Affairs Consultants
*Europac Group
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John Donaldson

John Donaldson, Lord Donaldson of Kingsbridge (1907-1998), was a Member of the House of Lords, initially on the Labour benches before joining the SDP and the Liberal Democrats.Tam Dalyell, Obituary: Lord Donaldson of Kingsbridge, Independent 10 March 1998.
==Northern Ireland==
Donaldson served as an Under-Secretary of State at the Northern Ireland Office from 11 March 1974 to 14 April 1976.David Butler and Gareth Butler, Twentieth Century British Political Facts 1900-2000, Macmillan, 2000, p.37. Prison administration proved to be one of the most controversial parts of his brief.W.D Flackes, & Sydney Elliott, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-88, Blackstaff Press, 1989, p.113.
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John Drewery Letter of Complaint to the BBC

:19 November 2007
:BBC Complaints
:PO Box 1922
:GLASGOW G2 3WT
Dear Sir/Madam
:RE: THE TRILLION DOLLAR REVOLUTIONARY: THIS WORLD –BBC2 -19 NOVEMBER
I write to protest strongly regarding the lack of balance in the above programme.
A large part of the programme was a distorted image of present day Venezuela, but I shall limit myself to the three areas I focus on below.
*I will pass over the description of Venezuela as a “smallish country” and progress to John Sweeney’s interview asking bus travellers if they agreed with giving London £15 millions in fuel. This is NOT a gift as your reporter knows and hinted at elsewhere in the programme, but in exchange for the Greater London Authority providing advice in areas such as tourism, policing and environmental initiatives. Why could he not find time to look at how Venezuelan money has, amongst other benefits, helped 750,000 Latin Americans and Caribbeans to retain their sight with cataracts operations? 
*Secondly while conceding that the government had increased school rolls and provided free food to pupils, John Sweeney stated that he found little evidence of new school developments. I know from my personal visits that the country is awash with building and infrastructural development projects, from new schools and new housing to replace the ranchos, through to bridges and new railway and metro development. 
*Thirdly it was regrettable that there was no attempt to analyse the new constitutional proposals. These include
:*a 6-hour working day and a reduction of 8 hours in the maximum working week to 36 hours. 
:*enhanced role for the country’s Afro-Venezuelan heritage to combat continuing discrimination
:*improved access to social security for the 40 per cent of Venezuelans who work in the informal sector.
I remain committed to the continuation of adequately financed public service broadcasting in this country, but this programme’s new low in broadcasting standards strains that commitment. I look forward to your reply on this serious matter in the near future.
Yours faithfully
:JOHN M DREWERY
:Executive Committee Member 
:Venezuela Information Centre