http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=9490 American website identifies MI6 officers 8/22/2005 3:30:00 PM GMT
http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/news_service/pics/9490.jpg MI6 chief John Scarlett An American website posted on Sunday what it said was the names of 74 members of the MI6, Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, the Guardian Unlimited reported. It wasn't clear what action will British intelligence officials or lawyers take to remove the names from the website. Most probably they would conduct a damage limitation exercise and warn those officers who have been identified. The Guardian said that eighteen of those identified by the website held the rank of ambassador. It added that the website published the names under a message thanking someone who it referred to as "A". The D Notice committee, which advises news agencies on security and intelligence issues, demands the British media not to reveal the identities of MI6 agents even if they have been identified elsewhere. This is not the first time that an American website reveals the identities of former or current MI6 officers. About six years ago, former MI6 officer, Richard Tomlinson, was accused of giving a long list of MI6 officials to a website and revealing confidential information about the intelligence agency. Tomlinson, who was jailed for violating the Official Secrets Act, denied the allegation at the time. Recently, newspapers in Croatia have also published the names of some MI6 officers serving in the country. In the United States, it is an offence to deliberately disclose the names of undercover CIA agents. A grand jury investigation was launched after the identification of CIA agent Valerie Plame, whose name was given to many reporters by an unidentified source in the U.S. government in 2003. A New York Times journalist, Judith Miller, was jailed recently after she refused to reveal the identity of the source. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hcee8fk/M=362329.6886306.7839369.3040540/D=groups/S=1705323667:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1124837512/A=2894321/R=0/SIG=11dvsfulr/*http://youthnoise.com/page.php?page_id=1992 ">Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back!</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
