4 April 1991The Guardian
Richard Norton-Taylor
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SECRET INTELLIGENCE SERVICE - MI6has used businessmen and tried to use journalists as freelance contacts, or what it calls "approved unofficial agents"
"successive governments have maintained the fiction that it does not exist in peacetime; thus it cannot be held to account, and can deny everything"
MI6 has an officer attached to most large embassies abroad
Embassys...
