The codename hit the headlines after the invasion of Iraq in 2003, when former US military intelligence officer and chief UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter claimed that Operation Rockingham was a secret UK intelligence unit in an interview with the Scottish Sunday Herald in June 2003.
The codename hit the headlines after the invasion of Iraq in 2003, over claims that Operation Rockingham was a propaganda effort within the British intelligence world. Former US military intelligence officer and UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter claimed that Operation Rockingham was a secret UK intelligence unit in an interview with the Scottish Sunday Herald in June 2003.