The UK's armed forces are on standby to provide an additional 3,500 troops to help with security at the 2012 London Olympics, the BBC has learned.
It comes amid fears that private contractor G4S would not be able to provide enough trained staff in time.
The armed forces are already providing some 13,500 personnel - this could now reach 17,000, meaning summer leave for some troops is likely to be cancelled.
G4S said it had "some issues in relation to workforce supply".
The company is being paid £300m to guard the Games, but the BBC understands it has not been able to guarantee it can supply the 10,000 guards it has been contracted to deliver.
'No impact'
A G4S spokeswoman said the company had accepted "that the government has decided to overlay additional resources".
She added: "This has been an unprecedented and very complex security recruitment, training and deployment exercise which has been carried out to a tight timescale.
"We have encountered some issues in relation to workforce supply and scheduling over the last couple of weeks, but are resolving these every day and remain committed to providing a security workforce for the start of the London 2012 Games."
With little more than a fortnight to go before the Games, it's becoming clear that the armed forces are being asked to step in.
The move could come as an embarrassment to G4S.
Whitehall sources are keen to stress that there will be no negative impact from all this on security at the Games, pointing out that the plan was always to have a mix of civilian and military personnel guarding the Games, with the contingency plans being activated as an "insurance policy".
But there has been anger within the military that they are being asked to step in, not least at a time when the armed forces are being downsized.
The armed forces were already due to provide some 13,500 personnel to help at the Games, with more available as a contingency plan.
Whitehall sources are keen to stress that there is no impact on security at the Games.
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond will announce more details about the extra troops on Thursday, the Home Office said.
In a statement, it said: "We have agreed to offer help to G4S by revising the level of military support."
It added the government and all involved were focused on delivering a "safe and secure Games".
"Our approach is intelligence-led and risk-based, and we retain the ability to be flexible in our response.
"The government is committing £553m for venue security and we remain confident that we will deliver within budget."
'Deeply concerned'
Keith Vaz, the Labour chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, has said he will write to the home secretary for an explanation to find out what is happening.
He said he was "deeply concerned" that G4S were now unable to deliver their contract and that "the Home Office have left contingency plans to the last moment".
Tessa Jowell: "It's a matter of concern that this failure of G4S seems to have emerged"
And Labour's shadow Olympics minister, Tessa Jowell MP, said there was "clearly a serious problem".
"With two weeks to go to the start of the Games, it is imperative that action is taken to ensure that the full and necessary quota of security personnel are in place so that the Games will be safe and secure," she said.
"We need to know why the problem has emerged so late in the day and precisely what has been agreed to.
"We also must know whether this affects army commitments elsewhere, which units are providing people and what terms and conditions are given for those who will likely lose periods of leave."
She added that - in the spirit of the cross-party approach to the Games - it was "essential that the opposition is kept fully informed of these events as they develop".
G4S said its planning with organising committee Locog and other security agencies allowed for "a variety of contingencies which have been reviewed in the build-up to the Games."
A spokesman for the London mayor, Boris Johnson, said: "The mayor takes the issue of Olympics security extremely seriously, and having the finest and bravest service men and woman in the world at our disposal during the Games should be a source of great comfort."
The government has previously said a total security force of 23,700 will take care of venue security, including the G4S contingent.
G4S will have overall control of Olympic venue security, working alongside unarmed troops, searching and checking people going into the stadiums and other venues.
Olympic sites number more than 30 sporting venues and more than 70 "non-competition venues" including car parks and hotels.
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The only thing that keeps going through my head every time I look at this thread is "it's the freaking Olympics, it's not like someone is going to walk off with the stadium on their back, what's with all the security?"
As with everything else...the only thing to worry about is some nob disrupting it from the inside (meaning a security agent, paid provocateur, government agent, etc...). They are gonna be looking in all the wrong places, the public is only a patty for the real people doing the disrupting so they have an excuse to tighten security and invade people's privacy even more.
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and I have no problem with going out the same way
I don't know what to think tbh. Maybe it's a useful distraction from a lot of other unpleasant things that are going on. I can predict with certainty that there will be no nuclear bomb, or any other false flag type event.
Not me. To state the obvious, I sincerely hope it goes smoothly, but it's the perfect opportunity for an FF, so I'd rather not take the risk.
And 2 weeks before the event, G4S have a staff deficit - when they've had so long to plan for it? So they're employing anybody, without checking credentials. It's a recipe for disaster imo.
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The general public (not just the truth community) seem to think that something terrible is gonna happen at the Olympics. The ones who I talked to reckon that Al quaida is gonna do something, and that they dont wanna be anywhere near London even though some may have tickets (obviously not tickets for the beach volleyball though).
So maybe the public are now READY (in their minds) for Marshall Law ?
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To be fair it would be easy to read more into all this and overlook the obvious.
These clowns couldn't organise a bunfight in a bakery.
They'll keep chucking, (our), cash at it to cover their embarrassment because the last thing these arrogant fucks will confess to is their own incompetence.
I have zero interest in the Olympic marketing fest.
This is very disturbing in parts. Quite alot of parts.
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I usually don't go in for symbolism and all that stuff, but the top of the BBC Olympics page displays the following:
The pyramids having been taken from the Olympic stadium. As I say, usually I don't pay too much attention to that stuff because it can be a bit tenuous at times, but it just seems too blatant to ignore:
Hopefully nothing will happen. Fingers crossed.
The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. The true measure of a man is this: how quickly he can respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give - Philip K. Dick.
Fearmongering isn't my forte as it goes and I tend to avoid this type of 'news' as a rule these days... but there just seems to be so much stuff connected to this event that it's hard not to notice.
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Fearmongering isn't my forte as it goes and I tend to avoid this type of 'news' as a rule these days... but there just seems to be so much stuff connected to this event that it's hard not to notice.
Yes, I agree. Probably a week ago I would have said "I don't think anything will happen", but I'm not so sure now. I'm not a worrier by nature, in fact nothing could be further from the truth, but my mum is attending the Olympics. I'm not really worried about it, and there's nothing I can do about it, and even if something did happen it's likely going to be confined to one place, on one day, at one time, but I don't feel 100% certain that nothing will happen.
The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. The true measure of a man is this: how quickly he can respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give - Philip K. Dick.
Fearmongering isn't my forte as it goes and I tend to avoid this type of 'news' as a rule these days... but there just seems to be so much stuff connected to this event that it's hard not to notice.
Yes, I agree. Probably a week ago I would have said "I don't think anything will happen", but I'm not so sure now. I'm not a worrier by nature, in fact nothing could be further from the truth, but my mum is attending the Olympics. I'm not really worried about it, and there's nothing I can do about it, and even if something did happen it's likely going to be confined to one place, on one day, at one time, but I don't feel 100% certain that nothing will happen.
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Well, I could say "mum, there's this group called the Illuminati, and no-one's quite sure if they exist, but we do know that there used to be a group called the Bavarian Illuminati, and they covertly influence events that we see on the public stage, and one of their symbols is a pyramid with an illuminated capstone, as seen on the dollar bill, and in the Olympic stadium that has been built there are numerous pyramids...", or maybe I won't bother!
The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. The true measure of a man is this: how quickly he can respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give - Philip K. Dick.
Well, I could say "mum, there's this group called the Illuminati, and no-one's quite sure if they exist, but we do know that there used to be a group called the Bavarian Illuminati, and they covertly influence events that we see on the public stage, and one of their symbols is a pyramid with an illuminated capstone, as seen on the dollar bill, and in the Olympic stadium that has been built there are numerous pyramids...", or maybe I won't bother!
That sadly, is the reality of it.
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He's very.... what shall we say... excitable? 
