Rod Barton

Rod Barton is a former Director of Strategic Technology in Australia’s Defence Intelligence Organisation and was a principal UN weapons inspector from 1991 to 2003. In 2003–04 he was a Special Advisor to the CIA-led Iraq Survey Group tasked with the hunt for weapons of mass destruction following the Iraq War. He is the author of The Weapons Detective: The Inside Story of Australia’s Top Weapons Inspector (2006).