Career
During his Ministry of Defence (MoD) career he occupied a wide range of analytical and management positions in the DIS and elsewhere, including three tours in the Cabinet Office, culminating as Secretary to the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC). Morrison ended his official career as the senior civilian intelligence professional in the Defence Intelligence Staff, serving four years as Deputy Chief of Defence Intelligence and Head of the Defence Intelligence Analysis Staff. On leaving the DIS and the civil service in 1999, Morrison was selected by the parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) to be its first Investigator.
He held this position until 2004, when his contract was prematurely terminated by the Committee after he appeared on the United Kingdom British Broadcasting Corporation television programme Panorama and maintaining that Saddam Hussein was not in fact a threat to the United Kingdom. Morrison is a joint author of The Open Side of Secrecy: Britain"s Intelligence and Security Committee, the first in-depth study of the ISC. Since his retirement, Morrison has appeared on a number of television and radio programmes, including Panorama, Today, The Politics Show, Newsnight, and Conspiracy Files (on the death of Doctor David Kelly).
