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16-4-2014

GCHQ names Foreign Office official Robert Hannigan as new chief

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Robert Hannigan

Senior Foreign Office official Robert Hannigan has been named as the next head of the UK's eavesdropping agency GCHQ. He will succeed Sir Iain Lobban at GCHQ, which has come under intense scrutiny following the revelations about its activities by

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