Spooks Spooked - How frightful !!!!!

international | miscellaneous | news report Tuesday August 30, 2005 22:36 by Barry

Over 100 MI6 agents unmasked - including formerly Irish based ones

British security chiefs are reported to be hopping mad after an American based internet site published a list of over 100 of their active agents and their locations . Many are based in Africa , Eastern Europe , Iraq and Asia . British spooks are terrified the cover of their agents has been irrevocably blown and their intelligence contacts compromised ( one is even referred to simply as a "wanker" by occupation which would indicate someone is ticked off about something in dear old Blighty .. Some of the names have been based in Ireland . The most prominent on the list is former UK Liberal leader Paddy Ashdown , a "former" British Army officer . It seems he just switched to a plain clothes army career instead .

Although the British agents unmasked are spread throughout the world , at least 2 have operated in Ireland , one based in Dublin from 1986 to 1992 and known to have been a key member of the MI6 team which facilitated John Majors contacts with Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness . Another was based in the Saudi capital of Riyadh in 88 , Baghdad in 89 and then operated in Dublin in 1994 at the time of the Provisional IRAs ceasefire . British security chiefs are trying desperately to have the site pull the list and English newspapers ,although reporting the massive leak refuse to name it . British chiefs fear the lives of their operatives in hotspots such as Baghdad have been put at risk. Anyone who reckons this is true can check the site here

http://cryptome.org/mi6-list-276.htm

and make up their own minds .

Following the Dublin Monaghan bombings the IRA in Dublin executed senior British intelligence agent and British ambassador Christopher Ewart Biggs in direct reprisal for the massacre , blaming British intelligence for the series of no warning car bombs that ripped through the towns . British spooks fear a similar fate could now befall more of their operatives in other trouble spots around the globe now theyve been unmasked .