THE THREAT OF A MAJOR NEW BRITISH SPY SCANDAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000505220048-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 26, 2010
• Sequence Number: 48
• Publication Date: July 18, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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LOS ANGELES TIMES
18 JULY 1982
The World
. The threat. of a major new British
spy.scandal. involving In security
at a top-secret communications sta.
tion is worrying Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher, British news
media reported. The London Times
said the reports center on the
government's communications
headquarters at Cheltenham after
the arraignment last week of Geof.
frey Arthur Prime on an espionage
charge. A government prosecutor
described the charge as being "of
She gravest possible nature," but no
details were disclosed
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