Mr Scarlett, chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, changed the wording of the claim in the text to match that of the summary.

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At about the same time Mr Scarlett received Defence Intelligence Staff experts' view that the way the 45 minute claim was described in the summary should be changed to match the more cautious wording in the text.

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