-Caveat Lector- Wednesday, May 12, 1999 Published at 17:14 GMT 18:14 UK UK acts to stop spy Website By Internet Correspondent Chris Nuttall The British government is trying to shutdown a Website which it says is putting the lives of intelligence agents at risk by publishing their names. A government advisory body for the UK media has urged editors to seek advice before publishing details of the names and said officials were examining how the damage of the disclosure could be minimised. Agents of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), formerly known as MI6, have been named in a list published on the US-based site. Ex-MI6 agent chased The government's Defence Advisory Notice Secretary, Rear Admiral David Pulvertaft, issued a notice to the UK media urging editors not to publish the address of the Website or details of its contents without first contacting him. The government has been trying to shut down Websites set up by a former agent Richard Tomlinson since the end of last month. He was sacked by MI6 in 1995 and jailed in December 1997 for breaking the country_s Official Secrets Act. He planned to publish his memoirs in Australia and on the Internet. A seven-page synopsis included information on secret service training and methods. Tomlinson was released on probation after six months of his one-year sentence and has been pursued around the world since by UK Government injunctions. Gave evidence at Diana inquiry He was arrested in Paris last July when he was preparing to publish more details about MI6. He was released again and went to New Zealand, where he was served with an injunction. He later returned to Paris to give evidence at the inquiry into the death of the Princess of Wales, claiming that Diana's driver, Henri Paul, was working for British Intelligence. He went on to live in Switzerland where he expressed support for former MI5 agent David Shayler, who also tried to release information about the security services over the Net. Swiss Website shut down Tomlinson's Website maintained in Switzerland was shut down when the UK government obtained an order against him on April 30 after he had threatened to publish sensitive information. Last week, he set up another site with an American-based company, Geocities, intending to put up a map of MI6 offices worldwide and a directory of agents' names. When Geocities was made aware of the Swiss injunction, it acted to prevent the publication. The case reveals the difficulties governments face in preventing publication in the Internet age. Websites can be set up anywhere there is an Internet connection in a matter of minutes and can then be read anywhere in the world. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_342000/342317.stm DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
