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Location : Wasted Space Job/hobbies : Cayman Islands Actuary
| Subject: Spy Company: Hakluyt & Co, was founded by former officers of British spy agency M16 Mon Oct 13, 2008 8:50 pm | |
| FORMER Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has joined Kevin Rudd's infrastructure chief, businessman Sir Rod Eddington, in advising a secretive British firm that sells intelligence on government policy intentions - including those in Australia - to big business.
The firm, Hakluyt & Co, was founded by former officers of British spy agency M16. Hakluyt has been embroiled in several corporate spying scandals and was caught in 2001 paying a former German intelligence agent to infiltrate green groups in Europe on behalf of the oil companies Shell and BP.
Hakluyt employs many former British intelligence officers and provides companies with high-level business and political intelligence on investment opportunities.
Mr Downer, the UN special envoy to Cyprus, was appointed to Hakluyt's advisory board in May. As foreign minister, he oversaw the Australian Secret Intelligence Service and had top-level access to information from Australia's spy agencies.
Sir Rod has served on Hakluyt's advisory board since 2005, but is not paid for his services.
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