"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."

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