M. Shrimpton

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Gender Male
Location United Kingdom
Interests Michael Shrimpton is a barrister, called to the Bar in 1983, and a specialist in National Security and Constitutional Law. He has wide ranging connections with Western Intelligence agencies and amongst ex-Soviet Bloc agencies. Michael has earned respect in the intelligence community for his analysis of previously unacknowledged post WWII covert operations against the West by the covert German DVD. He is an Emeritus Adjunct Professor of Intelligence Studies, Department of National Security, Intelligence and Space Studies, American Military University, where he taught intelligence subjects at Masters Degree level to inter alia serving intelligence officers. He has represented US and Israeli intelligence officers in law and has briefed staffers on the Senate select Committee on Intelligence and the Joint Congressional inquiry into 9-11, also addressing panels on terrorism in Washington DC and Los Angeles. His active assistance to Intelligence and Law Enforcement Agencies in the Global War on Terror has produced some notable success including the exposure of the Abu Graib “hood” photograph as a fake. His work in strategic intelligence has taken him to the Pentagon. He also met with senior advisors to the President of the Russian Federation in Moscow in November 2005. He participated in the Global Strategic Review conference in Geneva in 2005 and is a regular contributor at conferences such as Intelcon and the Intelligence Summit in Washington DC. He has been a member of Chatham House, RUSI, the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Military Commentators Circle, which he has addressed. In November 2010 he took an 18 month sabbatical to write his major intelligence history of the DVD, Spyhunter, which is scheduled for publication in the United States in mid-November. He is a member of British Mensa. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Michael_Shrimpton