COMMUNICATION AND DISCLOSURE ADVICE FOR INTELLIGENCE CORPS VETERANS
ADAM Birch /
There has always been an interest in the Intelligence Corps’ history but increasingly, probably as a consequence of world events, this interest is growing. This stems not only from the need to provide greater detail to the Military Intelligence Museum (MIM) and the Intelligence Corps Archive, but also in response to external questions, including from the media in all its forms.
Veterans are always strongly encouraged to contribute their memoirs and artefacts to the MIM and Archive to help record the Corps’ rich and varied history. However, there may also be some Veterans who will be asked to contribute to external books, articles, programmes and other media, or who are thinking or writing their own books.
The Intelligence Corps History & Heritage Steering Group has as its aim “promoting, encouraging and enabling the collection, recording, dissemination and celebration of the Intelligence Corps’ history and heritage, for the benefit of the Corps family and the Nation”. The H&HSG acknowledges the essential balance required between:
- recording and disseminating the Corps’ history, and
- maintaining and protecting the operational effectiveness of the Corps, including the integrity around Serving Personnel, Veterans their families.
To this end the HQ Intelligence Corps Disclosure Cell has produced helpful guidance to be followed by anyone contemplating writing their memoirs, or writing or contributing to other books, articles, programmes and other media. The advice is contained within “POLICY DIRECTIVE 16 - COMMUNICATION AND DISCLOSURE ADVICE FOR INTELLIGENCE CORPS VETERANS.”
Please do not feel you are being discouraged to contribute to the recorded history of the Corps, the situation is very much the opposite. All that is asked is that the guidance is followed and that advice is sought beforehand from the Disclosure Cell.
Thank you very much,
Nick Fox OBE
Colonel (Retired)
Deputy Colonel Commandant
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