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02/08/2004 Archived Entry: "Almost forgot about this."
Almost forgot about this.
This would be another nice little scandal to add to the toxic stew flowing through the halls of the White House these days.
Britain helped America to conduct a secret and potentially illegal spying operation at the United Nations in the run-up to the Iraq war, The Observer can reveal.The operation, which targeted at least one permanent member of the UN Security Council, was almost certainly in breach of the Vienna conventions on diplomatic relations, which strictly outlaw espionage at the UN missions in New York.
Translators and analysts at the Government's top-secret surveillance centre GCHQ were ordered to co-operate with an American espionage 'surge' on Security Council delegations after a request from the US National Security Agency at the end of January 2003. This was designed to help smooth the way for a second UN resolution authorising war in Iraq.
The information was intended for US Secretary of State Colin Powell before his presentation on weapons of mass destruction to the Security Council on 5 February.
Sources close to the intelligence services have now confirmed that the request from the security agency was 'acted on' by the British authorities. It is also known that the operation caused significant disquiet in the intelligence community on both sides of the Atlantic.
Presidential candidates, investigative journalists - start spreading the news. They should not get away with this.
Replies: 2 people speak up
its amazing, Bu$hco has committed so many crimes that espionage seems like a fairly bland charge
Posted by justin @ 02/09/2004 02:02 PM NY
I am glad you noticed this. By the way, the original story and the text of the leaked memo that exposed the scandal is at
http://corpus-callosum.blogspot.com/2004_02_01_corpus-callosum_archive.html#107636234658703449
Posted by Joseph Yaroch @ 02/09/2004 04:37 PM NY
