He described the shocked reaction of UK intelligence chiefs when informed in 2001 - two years before the war - that the US was determined to bring down Saddam Hussein by force.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tony-blair-usa-sunak-biden-b2299881.html

Part of the intelligence brief revealed that Russian spies were caught boasting about convincing the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to "work together against US and UK intelligence agencies".

Source: https://www.euronews.com/2023/04/11/classified-document-leak-will-lead-to-death-warns-pentagon

The site is some three miles from the UK intelligence agency’s Cheltenham base.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/gchq-joshua-bowles-cheltenham-court-b2401748.html