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2003-11-04 India-Pakistan

MI5 tried to bug Pakistan mission: Report

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Posted by Paul Moloney 2003-11-04 4:27:53 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I guess we aren't the only country with left-wing idiots in the Intel business.

Posted by Charles 2003-11-4 4:46:08 AM|| 2003-11-4 4:46:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Britain's intelligence services have a loooonnnnng history of compromises and betrayals caused by lefties. Lefties recruited straight from elite universities, having bypassed the real world. IMO a requirement for access to anything remotely sensitive should be political affiliation. The left is not a friend of the west.

Posted by Bulldog 2003-11-4 6:52:39 AM|| 2003-11-4 6:52:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 That should read right-of-centre political affiliation. And I'm only half joking.

Posted by Bulldog 2003-11-4 6:54:12 AM|| 2003-11-4 6:54:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Whatever happened to the D-Notice? Isn't the UK government allowed to shut down newspapers that report on secret material? A week-long closure should have the necessary deterrent effect.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2003-11-4 10:03:50 AM|| 2003-11-4 10:03:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 bulldog, Hanson had solid right wing credentials. Youve got to vet EVERYBODY. I wont say Cambridge was a one-off, but OTOH having people with leftie background was probably useful for a lot of Cold War ops. Certainly we used social dem types and trade unionists and others to infiltrate the labor movement on the continent, to set up alternate unions, papers, etc. Youve got to set that against the damage done by the Cambridge spies, who (BTW) were NOT of working class background.

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-11-4 2:06:18 PM|| 2003-11-4 2:06:18 PM|| Front Page Top

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