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Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service which spies overseas, is about to be tugged apprehensively into the light after 80 years as a near invisible mini department of state. The Queen has announced there will soon be parliamentary oversight for the Service. In anticipation of the publicity, MI6 has broken nearly a century of silence and authorised one of its foremost spies fo talk publicly. Tonight BBC Television's Panorama investigates MI6 and Lady Park talks exclusively to Tom Mangold:
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MARISATAN: Cha lanke like a crace hatuaan a metized miccionam, and Mis Marple. Beneath her cloak there is no dagger, rather a sharpened hatpin, yet until her retirement this extraordinary woman spied for Britian all her life:
PARK: "I once rescued somebody from a hospital and hid him for 2 days, I told my ambassador later, he was very nice about it. He tuned out to be a useful chap to have recued. I once smuggled somebody out in a car boot, that was more risky for him than for me in a way. But frankly I must have been arrested and condemed to be shot several times and it was a hazard that I got used to."
MANGOLD: Today's intelligence requirements are changing. MI6 is now deeply ́involved in holding back a new crime wave spreading from Russia to Britain, yet
some of the old threats remain. Lady Park again talking about the former Smiet Union:
PARK: "We're looking at a country which has the largest army in Europe, which has got a lot of R & D, which although it's destroying obsolete weapons it's replacing them by new ones all the time, and incidentally that will bring us on to proliferation, because they're selling all these very sophisticated weapons very widely. What we have to find out are the intentions of the Russians, they've still got all those missiles pointing straight at this country that hasn't been changed yet."
KANGOLD? When parliamentary oversight of MI6 is finally agreed, MP's from both sides of the House will be able to learn of the priorities that the Prime . Minister and his advisors assign to the service. Currently the small MIS
station in Hong Kong is working overtime. It is gathering secret intelligence on Chinese diplomati plane for makan masud of megotiations betwee Hong Kong and Beijing. It is also spying on China's proliferatioir of ballistit missiles throughout the Third World.
PARK: "I can't think of a more delicate subject to talk about than Hong Kong. I can only remind you that China is of course a great country and a major target, and I think you can be absolutely sure that the service will have been enabled to put what effort is necessary into covering whatever HMG wants
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