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› know about that part of the world. WOOLD: Using all traditional methods? \RK: And a few new ones as well, I hope."
MenID: Parliamentary accountability will also mean MIS revealing something bout its active operations dirty tricks--- or disruptive actions as the rvice calls them euphemistically. These range from hacking into financial crats inside the computers of drug dealing money launderers to something far re subtle:
NGOLD: "How good is the service at what it calls disruptive action which
used to call covert action?
RK: Very good. If only because once you get really good intelligece
out any group you are able to learn what the levers of power are and what ch man fears from another and what each man is capable, will credit another n with being capable of doing. It's all a matter of inside knowledge,.. I
ink..
NGOLD: What do you mean by that? I think I know what you mean. Can you ke it more explanatory?
RX:Well um.
NGOLD: You destroy things from the inside - is that what you are saying? 3X: You set people against one another. They destroy each other, you n't destroy them.
NGOLD: Right you say A is sleeping with B's wife and..
KK: What a pity so-and-so is so indiscreet. Not much more. Of course ere are much more sophisticated operations than that but that's roughly the rt of thing.
GOLD: What kind of sophisticated operations?
2X: Ah that I couldn't possibly tell you."
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* Mangold's special report on MI6 ---On Her Majesty's Secret Service." is night on Panorama, BBC 1 at 9.30
:ional extra bolt on:
(GOID: Not only has Lady Park been given Cabinet Office clearance to talk
licly but so has Sir Percy Cradock, until last year the Chairman of the int Intelligence Committee, and the man who effectively ran Whitehall's :elligence machine. We still don't know how efficient or effective MI6 is or it its true role is in a post-cold war environment should be. Why does the tigh taxpayer foot the bill for a global intelligence service. Sir Darev adock has no doubts:
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cock: "In the nature of things intelligence successes are unsung; it's .en the things that don't happen, the terrorist bomb that doesn't go off, the :ernational treaty that goes through smoothly, the thoughts of aggression
become second thoughts and are never acted upon; intelligence is a seless underground struggle to protect British interests and the fact that the end, in a dangerous world, we are still fairly stable, fairly secure, is part because of the intelligence machine."
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