The Sunday Times is reporting that a memory stick containing unencrypted details of informants and operations in Colombia has been lost/sold. The consequences of this has cost £100 million and put at risk the lives of many informants and their families.
The biggest drug traffickers are the intelligence agencies, specifically MI6 and CIA. Why?
1. money
2. a drugged population is easier to control
3. more police state surveillance
There have been some recent successes against the Colombian drug cartels.
The agent, described by one former colleague (from MI6?, perhaps her current real boss?) as, "a lovely girl but a bit daft and scatterbrained" was/is an MI6 agent.
The agent has not been sacked, but has only received a slap on the wrist!!
Do the math(s).
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From http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6169946.ece?token=null&offset=0&page=1
AS the plane from Ecuador began its descent into the Colombian capital of Bogota, Agent T must have felt a shiver of excitement about her new assignment.
She was being posted to the drugs capital of the world — where she had secured a role gathering intelligence in the war against the global cocaine trade worth £50 billion a year.
An undercover customs officer with Britain’s Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca), she would be responsible for dozens of undercover agents providing vital information on Colombia’s drugs cartels. The job involved liaising with MI5 and MI6, the British security and intelligence services, and the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
In her handbag was a memory stick full of secret information that she had personally downloaded from computer systems at her old office, the Soca station in Quito, capital of Ecuador. On it, sources say, were “Soca’s crown jewels” — the names, code names, addresses and operational details of dozens of Soca officers and confidential informants.
After the plane landed at Bogota’s El Dorado international airport in April 2006, Agent T boarded a transit coach to the terminal. She made her way through immigration and then caught a bus heading for the centre of the city and her new office at the British embassy.
For reasons still unclear, by the time she left the airport her handbag — and the vital memory stick — were gone.
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