Wife of new MI6 boss posts pictures, residence and family details on the site!
Wife of new MI6 boss posts pictures, residence and family details on the site!
The man set to take over as head of Britain's external spy agency has been left exposed after his wife published family photos and details about where the family live, work and go on holiday on Facebook.
The postings by Sir John Sawers's wife, Lady Shelley, which have since been removed, also include pictures of the senior spy in his Speedos on a beach trip.
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And there was no privacy protection on the account meaning that all the 200 million users in Facebook's "London" network could see the details.
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The security lapse prompted politicians to demand an inquiry into whether the Facebook details had compromised Sawers, who is relinquishing his post as Britain's ambassador to the UN to take over as MI6 head in November.
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Edward Davy, foreign affairs spokesman for the Liberal Democrat Party, said, "Normally, I would welcome greater openness in government for officials, but this type of exposure verges on the reckless.
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The PM should immediately commission an internal inquiry as to whether this has breached the security of the incoming head of MI6 too seriously to allow him to take up the post."
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British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, however, insisted that no compromising data had been revealed. "You know he wears Speedo... I mean that's not a state secret," he said.
Not the first...When Richard Dearlove became the head of MI6 in 1999, "his address was announced", forcing the government to put cops there to protect him.
When Stella Rimington became the first publicly named head of MI5, the domestic security agency, in 1991, her address was revealed. She and her daughter were put into an MI5 safe house.
