SECURITY BREACH IN BRITAIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01070R000100270006-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 13, 2007
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: July 20, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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RADIO N REPORTS, ~N~.
PROGRAM Morning Edition STATION WAMU-FM Radio
NPR Network
July 20, 1982 8sO5 AM
Washington, DC
Security Breach in Britain
JEAN COCHRAN: There are other domestic problems
mounting for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her ministers.
Today, Thatcher will try to explain one of them to Parliament.
Larry Miller reports.
LARRY MILLER: With rumors abounding that a major spy
scandal was about to break, Prime Minister Thatcher had little
choice but to make a public statement in the House of Commons.
Last week a man was charged with espionage, said to have
taken place between 1968 and last December at the government's
top secret communications headquarters at Cheltenham. .Duncan
Campbell, a British security expert, says the alleged espionage
occurred in perhaps the most sensitive division.
DUNCAN CAMPBELL: The department most responsible for
dealing with Russian signals and handling the information about
what we were getting, what Britain was getting in terms of
breaking Russian codes, was, over the long period, penetrated by
people supplying. information to the Soviet Union.
MILLER: Cheltenham is one of the most secret defense
establishments in Europe. It's linked to the National Security
Agency in the United States and to NATO.
For National Public Radio, this is Larry Miller in
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