[Stoat]

I must confess that I find this troubling.  A suitably motivated person with ill intent could conceivably research various acquaintances and spheres of activity of these people, now that their identities are known, and possibly make links to present-day people involved in confidential activities.  Such information could jeopardize ongoing investigations, intelligence gathering operations and even peoples' lives.

Considering that we are at war against an enemy without a country, without a uniform and without any interest in any rules of war or standards of decency but passionately invested in a seething hatred for us and our way of life that will only be quenched by our deaths, I would wish to suggest that intelligence is one of our most valuable and essential weapons in this war.  Anything that could conceivably compromise intelligence services needs to be avoided.  This effort at 'openness' is apparently an effort to placate critics, but it seems that many of the 'critics' are on the other side in this conflict.

[docbnj]

You are right.

If there is one thing an agency like M15 does NOT need, it is "openness."

[mattdono]

The pictures were published last week on the orders of Eliza Manningham-Buller, the current director-general, as part of her drive towards greater openness.

In the intelligence communities, I have never know that "openness" was a virtue.

I think that you are looking at a country (UK) that is destructing itself from the inside. Scary part is, we'd be fools to think that we have another 229 years to do the same.

With the leaky seive (sp?) that the CIA seems to be and that it seems jam-packed with leftist America haters with a penchant for being traitors, we probably have just as much (if not more) to be worried about.

[GSlob]

Well, their 7th Director [photo at the source] had the most memorable elephant ears - thus he must have been extremely easily recognizable. How would such an appearance square with his long clandestine service before he became a director?

[Fintan]

 

From the archives.

[Deetes]

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