The government have dropped charges against Katharina Gun, a British spy who leaked a document about the UK and US spying on UN members. Now Clare Short, is claiming that the UK bugged conversations of Kofi Annan.
Quote:
LONDON (Reuters) - Remember when you only saw British spies in 007 movies?
Suddenly, you can find James Bonds testifying in courtrooms, leaking documents to the papers, writing their own accounts on the front pages -- and now a former British Cabinet member says they snooped on U.N. chief Kofi Annan.
British spies, it seems, are everywhere, driven out of the shadows by the dispute over the war in Iraq.
And to the chagrin of spy services in both Britain and its war ally the United States, more skeletons are likely to tumble out of the closets as long as society remains bitterly divided over whether the war was right.
Former British Cabinet member Clare Short's revelation Thursday that she had seen transcripts of apparently bugged conversations of the U.N. secretary-general was the latest in a series of unprecedented disclosures.
|
How far does this whole thing go? It seems clear that blackmail may have also been used on some members.