Lord Paddy Ashdown, currently the top international administrator in Bosnia was MI6 agent – claim

Sunday Sun ^ | September 1, 2005

[joan]

Lord Paddy Ashdown, currently the top international administrator in Bosnia, was an agent for the British MI6 secret service in the 1970s, according to a report published on the internet and picked up by Bosnian newspapers.

The former Liberal Democrat leader's name was among 276 alleged MI6 agents identified by the Web site Crytome.org, which said he worked for the secret service while based in Geneva in 1974.

The information was reported by the Oslobodjenje and Dnevni Avaz newspapers on today.

Ashdown's spokesman, Mario Brkic, declined comment "on such speculation."

Ashdown took over the duties of the top international administrator in Bosnia - the High Representative of the International Community - in May 2002.

Ashdown has wide powers in the country, and can impose laws and fire local politicians as high as presidents of the country if he feels they are obstructing Bosnia's peace.

The Cryptome list also includes the former head of Ashdown's public relations office, Julian Braithwaite, stating that he was an MI6 agent in Sarajevo in 2002.

A spokesman for Britain's Foreign Office said the government had a policy of neither confirming nor denying whether any individual works in intelligence, in order to protect those who do.

"The posting of these names is highly irresponsible," the spokesman said. While he would not comment on Cryptome.org's naming of Ashdown, he said the website's lists were often "highly inaccurate."

[joan]

ping

[AmericanChef]

Saying "Lord Paddy Ashdown" makes me chuckle.

[zagor-te-nej]

He is still spy – he just changed sides. Now, he is working for the muslim.

[FormerLib]

And let's not forget how Ashdown handpicked the Serbs who "apologized" for Srebrenica, giving the Islamofascists the cover of saying that a Serb government has admitted the "massacre."