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The name’s Ashdown Sep 02

Says the Press Assocation (feed via icTeesside),

Lord Paddy Ashdown, currently the top international administrator in Bosnia, was an agent for the British MI6 secret service in the 1970s, according to a report published on the internet and picked up by Bosnian newspapers.
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The Cryptome list also includes the former head of Ashdown’s public relations office, Julian Braithwaite, stating that he was an MI6 agent in Sarajevo in 2002.

Gosh. And we all thought Jeremy Thorpe had the most interesting secrets…

Update: The source (via Hot Ginger and Dynamite) and comments from Jonathan.

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2 Responses

  1. 1
    david 

    I thought this was public knowledge? don’t mention the dog!

  2. 2
    adam 

    I thought there was a denial of sorts in his diaries, although rereading it he just describes the article it in GQ as scurrilous.

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