The Foreign Office said the secret intelligence body MI6 had made the settlements after legal advice.
The Iraqi family connection will doubtless prompt a call to MI6, the British secret intelligence service.
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Then, there is Jim, poor Jim Prideaux, lately a stalwart of the Secret Intelligence Service, or S.I.
London's Foreign Office, responsible for the country's overseas secret intelligence service MI6, declined to comment on Lugovoi's claim.
It is a confrontation, long brewing, over the Justice and Security Bill that will allow more civil courts to examine secret intelligence in private.
At the top end are retired officers of the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, advising company bosses with cunning and discretion learned in the secret service of Her Majesty.
John Young, a New-York-based architect and political activist, was publishing secret intelligence documents on his enigmatic website when Julian Assange had yet to even drop out of college.
We have - if you go back in history, there is a constant struggle between trying to run our open democracy and trying to run a secret intelligence service.
U.S. officials privately acknowledge they have provided secret intelligence on several al Qaeda targets to Yemen's government but won't say whether U.S. aircraft or drones took part in the strikes.
These sections appear to relate to "intercept" material - secret intelligence procedures such as phone-taps - and the Independent Police Complaints Commission told the coroner the missing chunks were relevant to the circumstances.
He leans very heavily on the advice of intelligence officers in the new world of global terrorism, and cannot afford to fall out publicly with the security or secret intelligence services.
And in unusual criticism of the Secret Intelligence Service, as MI6 is formally known, she said a delay in reporting his death and in providing relevant evidence added to the uncertainties about the case.
Liberal Democrat Baroness Hamwee wished to add the Security Service (MI5), the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) and GCHQ to the list of "strategic partners" that the bill would require the home secretary to consult.
Since 1994, the ISC has been the statutory oversight body for the Security Service (MI5), Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), and Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), and also consults with the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), Intelligence, Security and Resilience Group (ISRG), the Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS), and other agencies.
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In the end, it was secret Army intelligence planes that did him in.
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The inquiry into Azelle Rodney's death follows years of delays because of rules relating to secret criminal intelligence material.
Immigration minister Phil Woolas told the BBC that secret British intelligence and intelligence from other countries was also being used "in a targeted way".
The just-released unclassified Key Judgments of a still-secret National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) confirm that Iran was pursuing nuclear weapons as recently as 2002 or 2003.
Oh, and super secret Army intelligence spy planes.
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Washington (CNN) -- The Transportation Security Administration is upgrading security clearances for 10, 000 of its airport personnel, giving them access to "secret" intelligence to help them better detect threats and stop terrorists, the agency said Friday.
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The bill allows surveillance of foreign targets without a warrant, unless those targets are likely to communicate with people in the U.S. In those cases, officials could seek broad, "blanket" warrants from a secret federal intelligence court.
Randall Larsen, director of the Institute for Homeland Security, was enthusiastic about the expanded base of people with access to "secret" intelligence, saying it is particularly needed by behavior detection officers, who look for travelers exhibiting unusual behavior.
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Some of the inquiry will be held in secret to protect intelligence sources and methods.
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How do you give someone a fair hearing when their deportation relies on material gathered by the secret agencies - intelligence that will never see the light of day?
Officials insist that other networks, for top-secret, military and intelligence material, are intact.
The U.S. Secret Service will provide intelligence support and bomb teams.
Jaradat, from a village near Hebron in the West Bank, was held for interrogation Monday by the Israeli secret service based on intelligence gathered by village residents, Israeli security sources said.
The US Army's not-so-secret Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle (LEMV) spy blimp is better at staying hidden than we thought... if unintentionally.
Industry peers know surprisingly little about BAE Systems operations in the United States, because much of what the company does for the military and intelligence agencies is secret.
The Lib Dem leadership has faced some internal criticism for supporting separate plans in the Justice and Security Bill to extend the use of so-called secret courts to hear sensitive intelligence material.
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