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Re: Smiley Would be Miffed...

Francis A. Miniter <famini...@comcast.net>

Willow wrote:
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/05/british-spy-chiefs-cover_n_2...

> "LONDON He's the spy who came in from the beach.

> Holiday snapshots and family details about the newly appointed head of
> Britain's MI6 intelligence agency have been removed from a Facebook
> page after a newspaper told the government about them.

> Pictures from the social networking Web site published in the Mail on
> Sunday newspaper show John Sawers posing with his children, wearing a
> Santa hat and playing Frisbee on a beach.

> The paper said the information was posted by Sawers' wife on her
> Facebook page. It included vacation photos, details about the couple's
> three children and the location of their London home.

> Shelley Sawers' page has been removed from the site, although a cached
> page can still be viewed that shows a picture of the spy chief's wife.

> Some politicians called the details a security lapse _ but others said
> they revealed nothing but a few mildly embarrassing domestic details.

> "It's not a state secret that he wears Speedo swimming trunks," said
> Foreign Secretary David Miliband. "For goodness' sake, let's grow up."

> The Foreign Office would not comment further on the case."

> More------>

Yes, Smiley's "Control" would never be so embarrassed.

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Francis A. Miniter

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