MI5 boss admits bugging Adams

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Sunday Times
David Leppard



THE head of MI5, Eliza Manningham-Buller, has admitted that British intelligence agents have been bugging Gerry Adams and other top Sinn Fein officials.

Manningham-Buller told a closed meeting of the parliamentary intelligence and security committee before Christmas that MI5 had planted a sophisticated listening device at the head offices of Sinn Fein at Connolly House in Andersonstown, west Belfast.



In the security service’s first formal acknowledgment of the bugging operation, MI5’s director-general told the committee, which monitors Britain’s intelligence services, “they had to almost shred the office to find it”.

The 5ft device was found last September hidden in a floor joist at the headquarters of the party, which is the IRA’s political wing.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-1442540,00.html

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1. Hmmm....if they can install a 5 ft. device in a floor joist at the

headquarters of the IRA political wing, then really, they could install one anywhere.

I don't care for personal reasons, because lord knows my life is boring enough, but there are some Republican headquarters I hope get the special treatment.