[FYI] GCHQ arrest over Observer spying report

[Peter Kuhm <peter.kuhm@plus.at>]

Story:
-> http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,905936,00.html
| Revealed: US dirty tricks to win vote on Iraq war

leaked memo: 
http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,905954,00.html

coverage @ Heise:
-> http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-02.03.03-004/
| Observer: NSA belauscht Delegationen im UN-Sicherheitsrat

follow-up: (pointer by Maurice Wessling)

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Authenticity of the NSA email seems confirmed.

Also see:
UN launches inquiry into American spying
http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,910657,00.html
The spies and the spinner
http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,910756,00.html

Maurice Wessling


http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,910648,00.html

Dirty tricks memo: the fallout

GCHQ arrest over Observer spying report

Martin Bright, home affairs editor
Sunday March 9, 2003
The Observer

An employee at the top-secret Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)
has been arrested following revelations in The Observer last weekend about
an American 'dirty tricks' surveillance operation to win votes at the
United Nations in favour of a tough new resolution on Iraq.

Gloucestershire police confirmed last night that a 28-year-old woman was
arrested last week on suspicion of contravening the Official Secrets Act.
The woman, from the Cheltenham area, has been released on police bail
pending further inquiries. More arrests are expected.

A top-secret memo from the National Security Agency, which monitors
communications around the world, was passed to this newspaper by British
security sources who objected to being asked to aid the American operation.
The leak marks a serious breach between the Blair government and elements
of the intelligence community opposed to using British security resources
to help the US drive towards war.

Officials at GCHQ, the electronic surveillance arm of the British
intelligence service, were asked by the Americans to provide valuable
information from 'product lines', intelligence jargon for phone taps and
e-mail interception. The document was circulated among British intelligence
services before being leaked.

A GCHQ spokesman confirmed last night that the woman was an employee.

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