Foreign Office claims 53-year-old spy chief's departure part of long-planned move and nothing to do with Edward Snowden revelations
The Guardian, Tuesday 28 January 2014 17.15 GMT
The Foreign Office confirmed that the head of GCHQ, the British spy agency at the centre of the Edward Snowden leaks controversy, is to stand down.
The departure of Sir Iain Lobban, 53, who has been GCHQ director since July 2008, was being presented by the government as a long-planned move rather than being linked to the Snowden row.
The Foreign Office said: "Iain Lobban is doing an outstanding job as director GCHQ. Today is simply about starting the process of ensuring we have a suitable successor in place before he moves on as planned at the end of the year."
Lobban made a rare public appearance before a parliamentary committee in November at which he claimed the leaks to the Guardian had been damaging in the fight against terrorism. Lobban, who normally shirks publicity, was questioned by the parliamentary intelligence and security committee along with the heads of MI5 and MI6, Andrew Parker and Sir John Sawers. Lobban seemed to be the most uncomfortable of the trio with being in the limelight.
Commenting on his planned departure, the former Labour minister Lord Foulkes, a former member of committee, said: "I think he was doing a good job. He impressed when I was on the ISC. GCHQ is vital for national security and the recent publicity may have undermined this." Continues.
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