The UK Sunday Times reports today: http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/04/23/stinwenws01014.html "MI5 has requested the assistance of the American Federal Bureau of Investigation in tracking down and erasing copies of the document from the internet. Officials are particularly concerned about the release of details of a hitherto unknown intelligence gathering procedure called "telecheck", a system for filtering phone traffic to trace, identify and record important calls." The document is a top secret MI5 report on Libyan intelligence service activities in the UK, December 1995: http://cryptome.org/mi5-lis-uk.htm Publication of this URL is forbidden in the UK by HMG. Cryptome's ISP, Verio, has inquired about the doc, in response, it says, to a "British intelligence agency's" request to remove it. After discussion Cryptome declined to remove the doc except by court order, and sent an e-mail to Verio asking for information on the source and method of the request: http://cryptome.org/mi5-verio.htm Verio's president's office called Friday in response to the letter to say that it will investigate the request to remove the doc and let Cryptome know. The Verio rep said she was amazed that the Brits would ask without written grounds. Based on the Sunday Times report, it's probably that it was the FBI who contacted Verio legal with a verbal request. Exodus Communications ordered Mathaba.net yanked last Sunday for mirroring the document. A threat was made by Exodus to NameSecure, a forwarding service for Mathaba, to either yank the site immediately or NameSecure would be shutdown. A telephone inquiry to Exodus's office of "Policy Enforcement Manager" has not been returned. Downloads of the doc since April 14: ~8,000.
