"British agent James Bond faced death at the hands of many a polite-talking madman. Maybe he could have avoided confrontation all together if he'd flashed the bad guys a press card. A spy masquerading as a journalist makes a fine movie plot, but now the British Secret Service, also known as MI6 has been accused of adopting that very scenario. According to Richard Tomlinson, the renegade MI6 officer whose whistle-blowing book The Big Breach: From Top Secret to Maximum Security was just published in Russia, MI6 officers used journalistic cover on 4 of every 10 missions in conflicts ranging from Afghanistan to the Balkans. Tim Gopless from the National Union of Journalists in Britain joins me. Mr. Gopless, if we're to believe what we hear from Richard Tomlinson, the British intelligence community and Fleet Street are dangerously intertwined. ..."
[Journalist Spies ]
"The French Government has asked Pakistan to help secure the release of a French journalist being held in Kabul on suspicion of spying.
"Michel Peyrard, who works for the French news magazine Paris Match, was arrested on Tuesday in the east of Afghanistan wearing a full-length women's veil, or burqa."
[French seek Pakistan help over journalist]