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From: John Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Friday, December 18, 1998 2:04 AM
Subject: This may be of interest
Conrad Black vs R Murdoch?
Rome vs Albion?
The Times
December 17 1998
MP names Sunday Telegraph Editor as MI6 agent
BY MICHAEL EVANS
DEFENCE EDITOR
A LABOUR MP used parliamentary privilege yesterday to name Dominic Lawson,
Editor of the Sunday Telegraph, as the newspaperman alleged to have been in
the pay of MI6.
Brian Sedgemore, MP for Hackney South and Shoreditch, called for an
investigation into whether Mr Lawson had been recruited by the Secret
Intelligence Service.
Mr Lawson, who is 42 today, has been Editor of the Sunday Telegraph since
1995. He said in a statement yesterday: "I am not and never have been an
agent either paid or unpaid of MI6, or of any other government agency."
Mr Sedgemore's comments came in a short debate ahead of what was then
expected to be the start of the Christmas break today as he called for an
early pledge on the Government's promise to introduce a Freedom of
Information Act.
The allegation that a national newspaper editor was a paid asset of MI6 has
been among a number of claims reportedly made by Richard Tomlinson, the
former MI6 officer dismissed in 1995.
Mr Tomlinson, who subsequently served six months in prison for breaching the
Official Secrets Act, did not name the editor. In the Commons, Mr Sedgemore
said: "I would hope we would have some time between now and Christmas to
look at the claim that Dominic Lawson, the Editor of the Sunday Telegraph,
has been recruited as a paid MI6 agent. It would be very damaging for the
press if it were true."
The Times discovered independently which editor was being referred to as an
alleged MI6 asset, and last Saturday ran a report on the allegations,
without naming him. The Times also reported that Jeff Randall, the Editor of
Sunday Business, had been visited by one of MI6's directors last week after
his paper had run an article which also mentioned the allegation about a
national newspaper editor.
Mr Randall was asked to confirm that the information in the article had come
from an interview with Mr Tomlinson. Mr Randall refused to help.
Subsequently it emerged that Scotland Yard had begun a new investigation
into whether Mr Tomlinson had committed a further breach of the Official
Secrets Act.
The claim that MI6 had recruited an editor has been firmly denied by
Whitehall sources. The allegation centres on the time when Mr Lawson was the
Editor of the Spectator between 1990 and 1995.
During Mr Lawson's editorship of the magazine, a number of articles appeared
under a pseudonym. Two articles appeared in 1992 under the name of Kenneth
Roberts, said to be working with the United Nations in Bosnia.
At the end of the articles which accused UN peacekeepers in Bosnia of being
pro-Serb, there was a note that the author's real identity had been
concealed at his own request.
Mr Lawson was Editor when the magazine ran a scoop that Richard Gott,
literary editor of The Guardian, was being paid by the KGB.
The article, published on December 10, 1994, as the Conservative Government
struggled to shrug off a series of allegations of sleaze made by The
Guardian, claimed that Mr Gott had been recruited by the KGB in the late
Seventies.
Mr Gott, who had also been a leader writer, foreign correspondent and
features editor of The Guardian, subsequently resigned, admitting that the
Russians had paid for trips to Vienna, Athens and Nicosia "to meet their
man" but he denied ever receiving money from the KGB. He claimed that was
accepted by MI6.
Whitehall sources have denied that the Spectator or any other newspaper had
provided cover for intelligence officers to work abroad, using national
press cards.
They said that MI6 prohibited use of journalistic cover for operations
abroad.
The allegation that an editor worked for MI6 first appeared on an Internet
Website in Geneva, allegedly after an interview between two Swiss
journalists and Mr Tomlinson. All newspapers are covered by a High Court
injunction not to report any allegations by Mr Tomlinson that are not
already in the public domain.
Jeremy Deedes, managing director of The Daily Telegraph, said: "It is a
terrible slur against a chap to think that a journalist could keep his mouth
shut for more than five minutes on anything of importance."
Neither Mr Lawson, nor his proprietor, Conrad Black, chairman of the
Telegraph Group, would add to the Editor's statement.
The Moncktons
A socialite wife with religious and royal links
THE family into which Dominic Lawson married seven years ago are devout and
well-connected Roman Catholics
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