Monday, April 27, 2009

MI-6 Blunders Badly In The War Against The Drug Cartels

British Spy Loses Secrets In A Handbag -- Times Online

A BRITISH agent has thrown the war against drug traffickers into chaos by leaving top secret information about covert operations on a bus in South America.

In a blunder that has cost taxpayers millions of pounds and put scores of lives at risk, the drugs liaison officer lost a computer memory stick said to contain a list of undercover agents’ names and details of more than five years of intelligence work.

It happened when the MI6-trained agent left her handbag on a transit coach at El Dorado airport in Bogota, Colombia. Intelligence chiefs were forced to wind up operations and relocate dozens of agents and informants amid fears the device could fall into the hands of drugs barons.

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My Comment: When you hear stories like this, you wonder how the Brits were able to run an empire.

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