I have spoken to a British official who was involved in the preparation of the dossier, and he told me that until the week before it was published, the draft dossier produced by the intelligence services added little to what was already publicly known. He said: [Voiceover]: 'It was transformed in the week before it was published, to make it sexier'.


BBC Radio 4 Today programme, 29 May 2003; in Guardian 27 June 2003

Andrew Gilligan Quotes

I have spoken to a British official who was involved in the preparation of the dossier, and he told me that until the week before it was published,...

I have spoken to a British official who was involved in the preparation of the dossier, and he told me that until the week before it was published,...

I have spoken to a British official who was involved in the preparation of the dossier, and he told me that until the week before it was published,...

I have spoken to a British official who was involved in the preparation of the dossier, and he told me that until the week before it was published,...