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Top secret files which sunk with Bayesian yacht raided by MI6 in James Bond style mission: report
New York Post ^ | May 9, 2025 | Megan Palin, Fabrizio Scardovi and Andy Tillett

Posted on 05/09/2025 5:08:18 PM PDT by george76

A James Bond-esque mission to recover highly sensitive secret files held in safes aboard the sunken super-yacht Bayesian was reportedly carried out by UK intelligence service MI6 before Italian divers could get to them.

The top secret documents related to yacht owner Mike Lynch’s Darktrace cybersecurity company, which has contracts with UK, US and Israeli intelligence agencies, ...

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Sources close to the Italian investigation claimed British MI6 agents removed sensitive computer equipment and data belonging to Lynch — one of seven people killed in the sea tragedy last August — from the shipwreck, before the Italian authorities started to send divers to recover it this week.

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The 56m (184ft)-long sailing vessel is still on the seabed and was expected to be recovered in May.

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The top secret information could be of interest to foreign governments, prompting prosecutors to request that the yacht be guarded by both above-surface and underwater surveillance… but they may have been too late.

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The pre-emptive action — reportedly unauthorized by Italian authorities — saw the removal of computers, hard drives and encrypted devices from the vessel in a real-life mission

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Shipwreck survivors previously told prosecutors that Lynch — a tech tycoon dubbed the British Steve Jobs — “did not trust cloud services” and always kept data drives in a secure compartment of the yacht wherever he sailed.

The Bayesian was believed to contain the trove of top-secret documents and confidential data on foreign governments held in the ship’s hull in a series of waterproof safes.

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Three crew members of the Bayesian are officially under investigation for crimes including negligence, recklessness and failing to save the ship from an oncoming storm,

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bayesian; espionage; europe; italy; mi6; yacht

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1 posted on 05/09/2025 5:08:18 PM PDT by george76
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To: george76
Yacht pictured here:


2 posted on 05/09/2025 5:11:29 PM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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To: george76

Were the Epstein tapes in there?


3 posted on 05/09/2025 5:12:05 PM PDT by dynachrome (Auslander Raus!)
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To: george76

Given that the yacht sunk, what are the odds?


4 posted on 05/09/2025 5:14:24 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: dynachrome

OMG!!! That was my FIRST thought also!!


5 posted on 05/09/2025 5:18:56 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience..)
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To: Paladin2

Clinton confidant?


6 posted on 05/09/2025 5:26:34 PM PDT by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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To: Paladin2

Groan! Doubly so because I was ready to post a similar comment.


7 posted on 05/09/2025 5:27:44 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (May Rachel Zegler and Disney never know profits.)
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To: Sirius Lee

That looks like an aircraft.


8 posted on 05/09/2025 5:29:31 PM PDT by Lazamataz (I'm so on fire that I feel the need to stop, drop, and roll!)
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To: Lazamataz

Maybe on planet Vulcan.


9 posted on 05/09/2025 5:31:35 PM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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To: Sirius Lee

A V-bomber - blast from the past!


10 posted on 05/09/2025 5:47:06 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt (Fascist, deplorable, and proud of it!)
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To: Lazamataz

Model of the British Vulcan bomber. JB 007 Thunderball scene.


11 posted on 05/09/2025 5:53:05 PM PDT by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: dynachrome

There’s a dead diver.

Who knows.


12 posted on 05/09/2025 5:54:40 PM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: Lazamataz
That’s the wrong image.

THIS is like what a Bayesian yacht looks:


13 posted on 05/09/2025 5:55:43 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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To: dynachrome
IMG-8769
14 posted on 05/09/2025 6:23:45 PM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump! Prayers answered!)
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To: DoodleBob

I think you mean Boolian logic, not Bayesian.


15 posted on 05/09/2025 6:38:32 PM PDT by BarbM (Men who look at porn are impotent for God.)
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To: george76

How long can computers, hard drives and encrypted devices stay submerged in salt water and be usable? Or how long before data recovery is not possible?


16 posted on 05/09/2025 6:43:19 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
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For a long time if the safe is watertight ! No exposure !!!


17 posted on 05/09/2025 6:50:08 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad
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Good point. I forgot it was all in a safe, not just laying about. Thanks for the reminder.


18 posted on 05/09/2025 6:55:57 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
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“No, no, no. I said I wanted those secret documents to be held in a SCIF, not a skiff!!”


19 posted on 05/09/2025 7:08:10 PM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: george76

Speargun duels between color-coded sets of skindivers..


20 posted on 05/09/2025 9:32:36 PM PDT by RitchieAprile (available monkeys looking for the change..)
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