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13 March 2004. Correct caption of bottom photo.

9 March 2004. Thanks to A.


The MoD Special Forces Section commands secret operations of the British military, including the Joint Services Group, formerly known as the Force Research Unit (FRU), which runs undercover operations in Northern Ireland, and handler of Stakeknife. Kernohan determines how former secret agents are treated or mistreated by HMG. More on that murderous maltreatment:

http://cryptome.org/mod-panic.htm

http://cryptome.org/fru-claimant3.htm

http://cryptome.org/fru-stakeknife.htm

http://www.iiss.org/russianconferences-more.php?itemID=38

The annual visit by senior Russian Ministry of Defence officials to the UK took place from 20 – 24 January 2004. As previously, the visit was organised jointly by IISS Russia and Eurasia Programme and Harvard National Security Program in collaboration with the UK Ministry of Defence and the Northern Ireland Office.

The IISS held a half-day seminar on “Civil-Military Relations in Operations Other than War” on 21 January 2004. Oksana Antonenko, Director of the Russia and Eurasia Programme and Senior Fellow, chaired the seminar together with Christopher Langton, Fellow for Russia and Head of the IISS Defence Analysis Department. Dr John Chipman, Director of IISS opened the seminar.

In Session One, Counter-Terrorist Strategies in the UK and in the Russian Federation were discussed. The IISS was honoured to welcome Sir David Omand, Security and Intelligence Co-ordinator and Permanent Secretary to the Cabinet Office as a keynote speaker. Sir David explained the government’s strategy for integrating the UK response to international terrorism both between competent bodies in the UK and between the UK and other states. Mr Hugh Kernohan, Head of the Secretariat for Home and Special Forces at the UK Ministry of Defence focused the armed forces and counter-terrorism. For the Russian side, Lt. Gen. Vladimir Silinsky, Chief of Staff of the Security Council of the Russian Federation gave a presentation on Russia’s counter-terrorist strategy.


Eyeballing

Hugh Kernohan
Head of MoD Special Forces Section

Mr. Hugh Kernohan
Head of Special Forces Section
[Ministry of Defence]
Room RM 3/67 Metropole Building
Northumberland Avenue
London WC2N 5BP
Phone: 020 721 83299
Fax: 020 721 85081


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From left to right: Hugh Kernohan, Lieutenant General Silinsky, Sergei Konoplyov, Oksana Antonenko, John Chipman and Sir David Omand (at the lectern).


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Hugh Kernohan at far left, arm bent.