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An appearance on ITV News!

Emerging from the shadows – being interviewed as an "expert commentator" on ITV News national bulletin – 6.30pm, Thursday 25th October 2007 for a story on Palestinian al-Aqsa terrorists using Google Earth to plan operations © Independent Television News Limited

BBC TV's "Spooks: Code 9"

Kudos production team consult me as filming locations
researcher on Spooks spin-off drama series for 2008!

	So which locations have I suggested? What will they be used for? There's only one way to find out! Read through all four parts of www.secret-bases.co.uk The answers could already be there!
© Kudos		© Kudos

Former West Yorkshire Police HQ at The Tyrls, Bradford Kudos Film and Television Productions unit base and filming location for MI5's Regional HQ in BBC's Spooks spin-off series "Spooks: Code 9" Photo courtesy of "BABER" at www.panoramio.com

Live radio talk show interviews!

• On 8th September 2007 I was invited to guest on the hit Saturday night US radio talk show Coast to Coast AM. I discussed my Secret Bases website with host Ian Punnett, who kindly described it as "Cyber sleuthing ... cleverer than the Government ever hoped you'd be"!
  
  
• I was immediately contacted by George Butler – the host of World Review Commentary on the South Austin, Texas station We The People Radio Network – to appear on his Sunday 9th September show!
  
  
• As a result of my Coast to Coast AM appearance, on Friday 5th October 2007, I was invited on to the Internet-based GlastonburyRadio.net's popular talk show Now THAT'S Weird, hosted by media veteran Ross Hemsworth.
  
  

A Government policy change and a BBC Radio documentary!

• On 6th August 2006, the UK's Independent on Sunday newspaper picked up further on the issues and broke a story – featuring this website – revealing a major shift in Government policy which had been introduced quietly!
  
  
• In the following week, the story was also covered nationally by the Guardian and Daily Telegraph and on Tuesday 8th August, I did a live radio interview on BBC Hereford and Worcester, on Richard Wilford's Drive Time show at 4.45 pm! On Wednesday 9th, the Lincolnshire Echo ran with the story, "Mapping out secrets from the Cold War".
  
  
• A BBC Radio 4 documentary team was attracted to my website through all this coverage. They approached me to act as research consultant on a programme in September 2006 about a secret SAS close protection and defensive driving training base deep in the English countryside. Read all about it in Secret Bases Part 2!

A face-to-face with the Director General of MI5!

Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller Director General, MI5 October 2002 - April 2007 © Crown Copyright

Jonathan Evans Director General, MI5 April 2007 onwards © Crown Copyright

• Many loyal enthusiastic fans and fierce critics of Secret Bases would probably be bemused and amused in equal measure to learn that I came face-to-face with the Director General of MI5, the UK Security Service, in November 2006. Had my activities been placed under intense scrutiny because of more Media Hysteria? Had I perhaps been summoned to be interrogated at MI5 HQ, Thames House?
  
  
• No! I was actually granted an audience with Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller at the D-Notice Committee's Annual Reception in Whitehall on the evening of Thursday 23rd November 2006. I had been specially invited as a direct result of my regular dealings with the Committee, as I continually check sensitive material and seek advice on publication.
  
  
• I was reassuringly relieved that Dame Eliza had not heard about me or my website! In turn, she was suitably reassured to hear of my regular approaches to the D-Notice office. She introduced me to her PA and MI5's Head of Corporate Communications, the Media Liaison Officer, who WAS fully aware of me and my site and he personally thanked me for my continued responsible publishing activities.
  
  
• After Dame Eliza retired, she was succeeded in April 2007 by her deputy Jonathan Evans. He entered the Security Service in the early 1980s, working in counter-espionage, but soon became involved in counter-terrorism.
  
  
• So all this goes to show that, contrary to ill-informed Media Hysteria generating critics, websites like mine can legitimately entertain and inform using open sources of public domain information, whilst not breaching any laws or putting national security at risk.
  
  
• All it takes is a responsible attitude to Internet publishing, something that has now been acknowledged publicly at the highest level.
  
  
• Stubborn critics of Secret Bases can now be finally silenced and regular readers can now feel that their loyal support has been formally vindicated.
  
  
• Now explore "Secret Bases" to see what all the fuss was about!