10th November 1982: The spy kit used by Geoffrey Prime.Photo: Fox Photos/Getty Images
From Times Online:
The West was left in the dark for years when a spy told Moscow its codes had been cracked.
THE true scale of the damage wreaked on the UK and Nato by a notorious cold war traitor has been disclosed for the first time.
Geoffrey Prime, a former GCHQ spy, sold secrets to the KGB revealing that Britain and America had cracked high-grade Soviet military codes, according to a new book.
At a meeting with his handlers in Vienna, Prime, who is now 71, passed on 15 rolls of film containing 500 pages of classified documents taken by a miniature camera.
The revelation led to Moscow changing its encryption methods, leaving western intelligence in the dark for almost a decade afterwards.
Read more ....
My Comment: What is shocking about this story is that this low life convicted pedophile .... who should be in prison for life .... was released by Britain's beloved Labor Government in 2001.
One more reason to throw all of these bums out.
No comments:
Post a Comment