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British Spy Loses Top Secret Information in a Handbag
TimesOnline ^
| Sunday, April 26, 2009
| Isabel Oakeshott and David Leppard
Posted on 04/26/2009 1:12:36 PM PDT by Redbob
A British agent left top secret information about covert operations on a bus in South America when she lost her handbag while on assignment.
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.
The incident, which was hushed up by the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca), the agent’s employer, is an embarrassment for the government.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: espionage; mi5; nitwit; securitybreach; southamerica; spy; woman
SOCA to be renamed the Silly Organized Crime Agency...
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posted on
04/26/2009 1:12:36 PM PDT
by
Redbob
To: Redbob
You left your handbag where?
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posted on
04/26/2009 1:16:40 PM PDT
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: billorites
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posted on
04/26/2009 1:18:35 PM PDT
by
Redbob
(W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
To: billorites
“Serious Organised Crime Agency”
As opposed to the “not so serious organised crime agency”?
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posted on
04/26/2009 1:19:34 PM PDT
by
Crim
To: billorites
Should these people even be carrying around comprehensive security plans in plain text in public like this? As well as the risk of forgetting her purse, someone might snatch it from her, or she could be killed in an accident and have it be taken.
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posted on
04/26/2009 1:19:40 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
Those certainly seem like the sort of questions a rational person might ask...
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posted on
04/26/2009 1:22:40 PM PDT
by
Redbob
(W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
To: Redbob
Kim Philby must be laughing his ass off-in hell.
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posted on
04/26/2009 1:23:34 PM PDT
by
Larry381
("in the final instance civilization is always saved by a platoon of soldiers" Oswald Spengler)
To: Redbob
If they had let me do another Bond movie, maybe I wouldn't have misplaced the Bloody thing!!!!
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posted on
04/26/2009 1:23:39 PM PDT
by
Focault's Pendulum
(I want to see Totus's birth certificate...or at least date of manufacture.)
To: Redbob
A USB stick can be easily encrypted so that in case of theft or loss all that is at stake is a $10 device.
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posted on
04/26/2009 1:27:01 PM PDT
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: HiTech RedNeck
Besides, every newbie spy know that you don't leave anything sensitive in your purse.
You stash it in your pumpkin.
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posted on
04/26/2009 1:30:52 PM PDT
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: billorites
"A USB stick can be easily encrypted"Can be, yes; article doesn't seem to indicate this, however, and one thinks they would.
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posted on
04/26/2009 1:48:10 PM PDT
by
Redbob
(W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
To: billorites
My guess is yon woman spy should be looking for not only a new job, but an altogether different career field.
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posted on
04/26/2009 1:49:57 PM PDT
by
Redbob
(W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
To: Redbob
The one thing my ex never lost was her handbag.Keys, jewelry, glasses,watches, but never her purse.
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posted on
04/26/2009 1:52:02 PM PDT
by
razorback-bert
(We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.)
To: Redbob
Welcome to the Ministry of Silly Walks. This looks like a job for....The Spanish Inquisition!
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posted on
04/26/2009 1:59:16 PM PDT
by
PowderMonkey
(Will Work for Ammo)
To: Redbob
A British agent left top secret information about covert operations on a bus in South America when she lost her handbag while on assignment. That's just what 'they' want you to think. Why else would they leak this.
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posted on
04/26/2009 2:08:14 PM PDT
by
sportutegrl
(If liberals could do math, they would be conservatives.)
To: Redbob
My relative down there has it. Er...had it. Sold it at a flea market in Mexico City...to a guy who was coughing. Um....oh well.
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posted on
04/26/2009 2:33:59 PM PDT
by
MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
(Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
To: Redbob
SOCA to be renamed the Silly Organized Crime Agency... Headed by John Cleese from the Ministry of Silly Walks.
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posted on
04/26/2009 2:37:45 PM PDT
by
CDB
(Obama is Poison to the American political system)
To: Redbob
left top secret information about covert operations on a bus in South AmericaWow, who's runinng covert operations on a bus? Low budget group?
To: CDB
Headed by John Cleese from the Ministry of Silly Walks. I could be mistaken, but I would have sworn Cleese headed the Department of Redundency Department, or am I mistaken?
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posted on
04/26/2009 3:02:11 PM PDT
by
Don Carlos
(At least Mussolini made the trains run on time. What has Dear Reader done?)
To: Redbob
“The MI6-trained agent”
Really? Trained at what?
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posted on
04/26/2009 3:03:53 PM PDT
by
edcoil
(Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner Liberty is a well-armed lamb)
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