SECRET TRIAL FOR MI5 MAN

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SECRET
TRIAL FOR
MI5 MAN
By IAN HENRY,
Old Bailey Correspondent
FORTHCOMING . Old
Bailey spy trial fea-
turing, a middle-ranking
MIS officer will be held
almost entirely in secret,
it was learned yesterday.
Only a short part of the
prosecuting opening speech by
the Attorney -General, Sir
Michael Havers, and the verdict,
is likely to be held in open
court.
The trial of Michael Bettaney,
of Victoria Road, Coulsdon,
Surrey, on six spying charges,
is'due to begin on April 10. It
is expected to last'at least eight
days.
Bettaney appeared at the Old
Bailey yesterday amid tight
security for a pre-trial review
before the Lord. Chief Justice,
Lord. Lane.
Public. barred
The four-hour' hedring was
held in camera with Press and
the. public excluded. The court
windows were boarded up and
the doors were locked.
It was after the hearing
ended that it was learned that
all but small part of the trial
and the verdict will be held in
camera. It is believed 'defence:
lawyers opposed the application
by the prosecution.
Bettaney faces charges accus-
ing him of collecting and.pass-
ing information calculated to,
be or which ;might be useful to,
an enemy&
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THE TIMES FRIDAY FEBR
115 Officer's lawyers
lose challenge
. .
to secret hearingBy Stewart Tendler, Crime Reporter
The public and the press are counsel had argued against. the There is no means of appeal Ifor
to be excluded from almost the DDP's application in a hearing the defence,until the case has
entire trial of Michael Bettaney, which lasted nearly four hours
the MI
ff
f
o
icer
acing espionage: ' in court number been completed.
charges; the one. The
Central criminal hearing, listed to take practice Mr B
Court decided in camera ycste'r- trial directions, beganin, si tg s under the Offic
day x cnar es ial
When Mr Bettaney, aged 33, into cam bersrand was then moved Secrets Acts 0 f 19.11. and 1920.
of Coulsdon, Surrey, starts his Mr Bettaney was ..,brought d1l is slime thht se pasent on
trial on April 10 with not guilty from Brixton prison for the the-Ss ieBritiion's ' intelligence
pleas, the jury will be sworn in, hearing.-He was represented in netwo ks , rita n, el e
ails o
the charges put and Sir Michael court by Mr Michael Mansfield the in 0 Brit a e'd usiia s,'
Havers the expulsion of three Russians,'
QC, the ? Attorney and Mr Kenneth Richardson and prepared other material. to
General, will open the Crown's appeared for the Crown. Sup hand over to the Russians-in.
case but then the rest of the case John Westcott; from the Special 1983?
Nvill be in camera. Branch was also in court.
Mr Bettaney's solicitor, Mr The application of in camera ' in sIt is usual fb~' a
uch a case to plead not guilty
Lawrence Grant, said after the proceedings so widely is likely but where it has happene in
hearing before the Lord Chief to cause concern in legal circles. recent years, such as in the trial
,Justice, Lord Lane, that the
court would not be opened :.. of Professor Hugh Hambleton
again until the jury returned its in 1982, the court went into
erdicts. camera for only part of the case.
'the trial is expected to last
In cases where the accused
eight working days and all the hav
evidence, witnesses, the judge's e pleaded guilty, such as
Geoffre Prime,
Summing up, and much of y part of the
hearings were heard in camera.
counsels' speeches will be n z The periods have covered areas
behind closed donrc
aucn as an assessment of the
Mr Grant said the use of the damage
in-camera process to such an done to national
security. In Security Service,
eXtent was unprecedented and
Thad been agreed by the judge Special Intelligence Service, and
alter an application by Sir M16witnesses.
'I homas Hetherington the After the hearin
e
steaid e
Director of Public Prosecutions. g y
spokesman for the DPP said h he
Other decisions had also been was unale to comment on what
tak
en. :0'd.' Bettaney. Facing six had happened at the hearing or
Mr r.?
an solo Mat uetence charges. Ile potential use of the in
camera practice.
gatecrasher in tussle
at royal event
A man in his early thirties
tried to force his way into the
Royal Society of Arts head-
quarters in London yesterday
minutes before the Prince of
%V ales arrived for the launching
,;'f it #500,000 appeal for the
'arming and Wildlife Advisory
I rust.
'I-he man approached the
eception desk, where Miss`
.eslcy Sands asked for his
0%itation.
F he man, who was "caring an
wouldn't show any, identifi-
cation. He kept trying to hang
up his coat and leave his
briefcase. He hadn't got an
invitation card and I said that I
was sorry but'he had to leave."
The man, wearing a smart
grey suit, soon became violent
and the police were.called.
One policeman was punched
in the face and three officers
lost their helmets as the man
was dragged struggling and
rotesti
P
ng from
-sy hat and had a chap T6rR Pe1cothelia t
n. hen he reaced the van
:eked into his trousers, re- five policemen were restraining
A.rd to produce and invitaion him.
r, said he represented a lot of ?rti..
BBC wins
news
awards
The BBC won the Royal
Television Society's domestic
news award last night for its
coverage of the resignation of
Cecil Parkinson. Mr John Tuss,
of the BBC Newsnight, won the
award for television journalist
of the year.
Other winners were: Coast to
Coast (TVS), daily news maga-
zine; ITN, international news
for its Beirut coverage; TV Eve
(Thames), home current affairs'
for Here Come Cruise-, P ano--
'J af'Fd1ts-a7/ed gTrl
Account - How Roberto Calvi
Died. A special commendation,
went in Peter W:n __ __
Benjie, Leggate, aged six,, with" I
(Phi
Riders bring.
in 000
for charity
Once: a year the Leggate
family of Gordon in Berwick
raises funds''for such local
charities as the Edinburgh Eye
Pavillion. .
The last effort;', 8'20" mile
sponsored horseback ride by
people who had' not ridden for
10 years,. raised #4,000. Benjie
Leggate, aged, six, raised. #200
with 'his sister Kate, aged nine,
his pony Doughnut and a
friend's Great Dane called
OT?U0029O118-9Mr Peter
Leggate, said yesterday: "We
were very happy with the
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receive
they d
of sch
court I
a repot
Nation
Care
Offend
Itsa
someti
and ut
of cr
'pejora'
never
court.
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The Old Bailey trial of
Michael Bettancy, a middle-
ranking M15 officer, will be
held almost entirely in secret.
Bettaney, aged 33, who faces
six charges of spying, appeared
yesterday amid tight security
in number one court at the
Old Bailey before Lord Lane,
the Lord Chief Justice. The
hearing -immediately went into
camera.
Courts normally only go into
camera. when matters of
national security are being
dealt with and legal experts
believe that holding a spy trial
in conditions of such secrecy is
without precedent in peace-
time.
Afterwards it was learned
that all the trial, except a
small part of the prosecution's
opening speech by the
Attorney-General, Sir Michael
Havers, and the verdict would
be held in camera.
mented: "The need for a Vnextass...yea `rr- ...,,.,~.. _. ... _ .._
real terms. Mr Doug i\lcavoy,
[e-mail] Rb7 en( p('? epu y general secretary,
vestment is plain for all to is tP If ho dbsctiUd he proposals spelt discs-
see."
The white paper is likely to
generate controversy on the
grounds that the figures for
public spending over the next
three years (#126.4 billion in
1984/5, #132 billion in 1985'86
and #136.7 billion in 1986/87
would have been much higher
but for #2 billion a year of
asset sales (plus another near
#1 billion for council hose dis-
posals) and the #2.5 billion
burden imposed on public cor-
porations to rid themselves of
their borrowing.
The Commons Treasury
select committee has criticised
the way these accounting de-
vices show that govenment.
spending is lower than it is.
The planned total for spend-
ing also excludes payments of
interest on debt, which has
been one of the fastest grow-
ing areas in recent years, hav-
ing risen by #1 billioa in the
GUARDIAN CROSSWORD 16,853
CUSTOS
ACROSS 19 More than one gentleman
.,,...;.,,.,g has reiected one surgeon (6).
cent and callous " and a con-
tinuation of the policy which
had done so much damage over
the past four years.
"Parents will 1ne in n dount
who to blame for the larger Y
classes,.fewer books and poorer
facilities in schools over the
next three wears." Co
Rising curve of military
f
spending to level off
By David Fairhall,
Defence Correspondent
A LONG period of rising
military expenditure will
come to an end in 1986-7,
according to the Govern-
ment's latest forecast, when
the Defence Ministry's cash
budget will barely , keep pace
with the rate of inflation.
Even on the optimistic
Treasury assumption built
into the Defence Ministry's
figures= that by then the
annual rate of :inflation will
have fallen to only 3 per
cent-its budget shows little
real growth : half a per cent
in total expenditure and 1
per cent if the cost of the
Falklands garrison is
excluded. The Government
will therefore take immediate
advantage of its, decision to
abandon the voluntary Nato
commitment to continued 3
per cent real growth from
1986.
When the question of the
Nato commitment was raised
in Cabinet the Defence Secret
tary, Mr Michael Heseltine,
made no serious effort to de-
fend it through into the late
1980s ; presumably taking the
view that Britain would
already have done its bit:for'
the alliance by maintaining a-.
rising budget .for so. long -
especially when faced with
the extra burden of the Falk.
lands.
Next year's defence budget
- excluding the #684 million
that will be spent on replac-
ing equipment lost in the
South Atlantic war and build-
ing up the garrison - will
rise by 3? per cent after
allowing for inflation, and
the following year's by an-
other- 3 per cent.
In cash terms, which is
now W ititehal, now does it3
book-keeping, military expen-
diture will rise to an esti-
mated #18,660 million in
1986-87, of which #450 mil-
lion will still have to be
spent on the Falklands garri-
son plus any residual war
costs. That is nearly f3 bil-
lion more than this year's
cash figure of #15,716. mil-
lion.
The armed services minis-
ter, Mr John Stanley,
acknowledged yesterday that
if his department was to
avoid renewed financial pres-
sure on its many programmes
,- which some analysts pre-
dict will lead to another de-
fence policy review by the
late 1980s - the Government
must succeed in keeping the
general rate of inflation
down, and that ' the prices of
military equipment must not.'
be allowed.to rise faster than
the general rate.
THE WEATHER
Cloudy with
showers
A RIDGE of high pressure over
S Britain, but a weak trough of
variegated (5). s4LC dttu ussc vwa W-11 1-1-
4 Ancient leaf-like ornament ning (8).
a friend came across, we 24 Seascape artists? They may
hear (8). be well-supplied (7,2, 5).
8 Mark accountant's put back 25 My love is holding drunk-
on pamphlet, makes a deal ard's plant (8).
legal (5, 1, 8). 26 Prepare to come into line
10 Like a madman in the (5),
South, at one Cam-
bridgeshire town (8). 1 Become bored, as one will
11 Prince of Wales, say, gets when closing an account?
his mother a jumper (6). (4,8)
12 Hypothetical article un- 2 Lists soldier among those
satisfactory to Eric (9), taking their ease (9).
15 Go round in space - circle 3 Sun, rising, has child bur-
right part (5). ning (5).
17 Artist's last words seen in . 4 Gambled, but losing capi-
the files (5). tal, embezzled (9).
18 A lot of papers - 50, - lying 5 Give temporary use of long
in a ditch? That's fanciful object (4).
(5-4). 6 A crawler arouses more
t-lA on
I Assess, dS Ltsey say, urdaagca
in course (5).
9 Things in the Louvre,
land, E Anglia, Midlands, Channel Islands
Rather cloudy. Any mist and fog patches
thining to give lazy sunshine. Wind S to
SE, l.ght or moderate. Max temp 3 to. SC
(37-41F).
SW and NW England, Wales : Rather
cloudy. A little drizzle over windward coasts
and hills dying out. Some bright internals
in sheltered places. Wind S, moderate, occa-
sionally fresh. Max 5-7C (41-45F)
Lake District. Isle of Man, NE England,
Borders, SW Scotland. N Ireland : Light
rain or drizzle dying out. Rather cloudy but
some bright intervals developing. Wind S to
SW, fresh or strong. Max 5-7C (41-45F).
Edinburgh. Dundee. Aberdeen. Glasgow,
Cent Highlands. Moray Firth : Mostly dry.
Rather cloudy but some bright intervals deve-
loping. Wind S to SW. strong. Max 5-7C
(41-45'F).
NE and NW Scotland, Argyll. Orkney,
Shetland : Rather cloudy. Isolated light
showers. Wind S or SW, strong locally gale.
Max 6-BC (43.46F).
Outlook : Rather cold and dry in S and E.
Cloudy with occasional rain or drizzle in , N
and W, and near normal temyeratures.
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`C lhfit/. ti
snow cover. our ace icy. Middle runs and
Lower slopes complete, wide cover hard--
packed snow, icy patches. Vert runs 1,800ft.
Hill and main roads clear.Snow. level
AnOU'iD i Hi E JUORLD
LUNCH-TIME REPORTS
C F
Amsterdam Fy -3 27
Athens C 10 50
Bahrain S 20 68
*Barbados F 27 81
Barcelona F 11 52
Belgrade F -4 25
Beirut $ 16 61
Berlin 5 -3 27
uBermuda F 27 72
Birmingham C -1 30
*Boston R 10 50
Bristol F 2 36
Brussels C -3 27
Budapest S -1 30
? Bnos Aires S 31 88
Cape Town S 32 90
Cardiff C 2 36
Cologne S 1 34
Corfu S 12 54
Dublin C 7 45
Dubrovnik S 8 46
Edinburgh C 44
Faye S 1 59
Frankfurt S -) 30
Funchal C 16 61
Geneva S -1 30
Gibraltar F 14 57
Glasgow C 7 45
Helsinki Sn -2 2R
Hong Kong C 16 bl
Innsbruck S -2 28
Inverness C 8 46
Istanbul C 6 43
Karachi S 24 75
Larnaca S 17 63
Las Palmas F 18 64
Lisbon S 11 52
seen C' 236
I. Angeles F 16 61
Luxembourg C -1 30
Madrid 8 46
Majorca F 12 '54
Malaga S 14 57
Manchester C 0 32
Melbourne S 22 72
Mexico C S 20 68
?,Mlami F 26 79
*Montreal F 5 41
Moscow S -4 25
Munich F 7 19
Naiiohl S 30 86
Newcastle C 0 32
New Delhi S 21 70
*New York C 14 57
Oporto S 14 57
Paris SF 0 -2 28
32
F -1 30
Perrthg S 28 82
Prague S -4 25
Reykjavik R 3 37
Rhode R 13 55
*RiodoJanS3086
Riyadth S 23 73
Salzburg C -4 25
Seoul C 0 32
Singapore R 26 79
Stockholm S 0 32
Sydney F 28 92
Tel-Aviv F 17 63
Tenerife S 18 64
Tokyo S 6 43
Toronto S 2 36
Valencia S 12 54
?Vaneoueer S 7 45
Vienna S -4 25
Warsaw 5-621
'Washington R 10 50
Wellington F 17 63
Zurich C -4 25
C, cloudy; F. fair; Fu, fog; R, rain; S,
sunny; Sn. snow
Previous day's readings
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NEWS
IN BRIEF
TV-am
gets its
new deal
TV-am reached agreement
with its technicians yesterday
on changes of working prac-
tices which will make the #2
million savings the company
demanded.
The technicians' union
ACTT, which agreed in princi-
ple on Friday of last week to
the changes in working prac-
tices, had a meeting yesterday
afternoon. The 160 technicians
agreed to alter their shift sys-
tem from five days on, five
days off, to four days on, three
days off, and accepted the prin-
ciple of natural wastage as a
means of reducing the number
of workers.
RO~Q? 0'f8-9
Fowler gives strong
The Social Services Secre-
tary, Mr Norman Fowler yes-
terday handed out the first
government " goody " of the
Chesterfield byelection cam-
paign when he gave the strong-
est possible 'hint that pay
recommendations from the
nurses and midwives review
body would be put into effect.
Mr Fowler, speaking in sup-
port of the Tory candidate, Mr
Nicholas Bourne, said: ' We
haven't set up the review body
in order to reject its findings."
Pressed for a firmer assur-
ance, be replied: " You can
take comfort from the words I
have said."
The previous evening, Mr
Bourne, like the Labour and
Liberal candidates, had spoken
about the National Health Ser-
vice problems at a meeting
Dennis Johnson
sees the first government '
organised by the Royal College
of Nursing.
He took clear encouragement
from Mr Fowler's words and
told his morning press confer.
ence: " I am satisfied with
what the minister has said.
They are not pledged to imple-
ment the findings, but I am
perfectly satisfied that we have
been given a clear indication
that they will be."
Mr Fowler implied that the
Government was ready to re-
ward nurses for not striking
during the 1982 health service
dispute.
We want to recognise that
position - we don't want them
to lose out," he said.
The review body was set up
by Mr Fowler during the dis-
pute in recognition of
claim that wages had fa!
well below the rate of it
tion.
Mr Fowler said that the !
lie Expenditure white pal
published on Thursday, sho?
the Government commits:
to the NHS. Spending on
service would rise from
billion in 1983/84 to more
#18 billion in 1986/87.
" So far from failinc
honour our election pied,;c
as Labour claimed we c
- this is an increase on
was promised by the P!
Minister at the last elects
he said.
The Liberal leader.
David Steel, who went can
ing in Chesterfield M:
Budget day broadcast
could provoke a stand
A phrase
which
BBC staff hasn't
may black felt the
The agreement follows TV-
am's withdrawal of its original
redundancy proposals, pre-
sented as the only alternative
if working methods were not
altered.
9Id Bailey
secrets trial
An airman accused under Dilflblebv
the official Secrets Act will be V
tried at th'. Old Bailey on July I
9. The Director of Public Pro-
secutions office could not say
whether part of the proceed-
ings would be held in secret.
Paul .John Davies, aged 21,
who was based in RAF Epis'
kopi, Cyprus, is charged under
section one of the Act with
passing a confidential Nato
signal to Eva Marie Gazi Jaa-
far.
Gatecrash man on
damage charge
CHRISTOPHER James Yeo,
aged 30, unemployed, of Aber-
deen Road, Croydon, London,
who tried to gatecrash a func-
tion attended by Prince
Charles, was yesterday re-
manded in custody for medical
reports, charged with damaging
a police van.
Mr Yeo was earlier dragged
shouting from the 'Bow Street
By Patrick R'intour,
Labour Staff
lie broadcaster Mr David
Dimbleby may be blacked by
the National Union of Journa-
lists if the BBC goes ahead
with its proposal to use him as
presenter of the Budget cover-
age on March 13. The NUJ
Lime Grove current affairs
chapel committee will meet
tomorrow to consider a propo-
sal that its members should
boycott Mr Dimbleby on
Budget day because of his use
of the Government's employ-
ment legislation against 13
striking NUJ members
employed by his newspaper
group in west London.
The full chapel will discuss
the boycott on Monday. Mr
John Foster, the NUJ broad.
casting officer, said yesterday :
" The BBC's intention to use
court dock k after refusing to be
peace dRtt~&AP f fir ~e'f?
A ncwi-r coilw'ht
and insensitive," The decision the Dimblety Newspaper
$BC own?uteTielihe3'Ys?;-Uett'ro tra sC ~rYf'~ tH~rrltth"h'i
staff on the need for journa- four west London papers to
tiOc in retain the cornoration's the non-union ,firm of TBF
damage
j By Michael Parkin
primand given under the gui- 1, THOSE awful men nch'
delines to a freelance
journalist employed by BBC a round of drinks and
Cardiff who had attended a ask the barman
CND demonstration. the damage? " are the
Mr Foster said that. if tlhe ting guardians of a r'
Lime grove chapel voted to that was in common us.'
black ,Mr Dimble'hy the union's the Sheffield area h,
emergency committee would 1790 and 1810.
meet to endorse the decision The Centre of Englisl.
before Mr Dim'bleby's proposed (Ural Tradition and Lan
budget appearance. I at Sheffield University h
The BBC said that no final printed The Haltan
decision had been taken to use Glossary, a pioneerin
Mr Dimbleby on the budget. by the Rev .Joseph Hums
lle works as a freelance, al- mark the bicentenary ?
thcugh be was used by the birth. The original nog'
corporation to cover the for more than #30 a cop
funeral of Mr Andropov. Mr
Foster said he bad been told Men in bars are no
by the BBC on Wednesday that only custodians of word
Mr Dimbleby would definitely phrases which It ii
he used on the budget day. regarded as archaic
Mr Dimbleby's recourse to Other survivors
the courts has forced the NU.T botrh eyesore. glum. in
But the English 1,-;t-
has dropped heigh-v'
meaning high-spi
lundy-clumsy on a
 guard at . the Coal Board
ous about the reaction on
is to. the MacGregor stra-
1acGregor believes it is
o make ' the painful deci-
ad so prepare the way for
r in 1985-86 and beyond.
or is also believed to be
impatient to.bring an end
r's overtime ban that has
in since 1 November. He is
e idea of throwing down an
:o the miners.
ild involve warning them
they, ended the overtime
Main date (perhaps the end
of March) their final 5:2'per cent pay
offer (3 per cent on earnings) will not
be , backdated to November. This
would deprive them of a tidy lump sum
at the end of the industrial action.
In the run-up ;to Christmas, Mac-
Gregor floated various ideas to entice
the miners out .of' their overtime ban,
but was talked out of making any move
by his Board colleagues. With spring
not far away, he has come round to the
view that the deadlock cannot go on
much longer. So far the Board has lost
5.8 million tonnes of coal because of
the 0venime clan as much as #80
million in revenue. On the other hand,
the miners have lost #56 million in
wages.'
There are no signs of any trouble
with coal stocks. At the power stations
they still total 28 million tonnes (1.5
million tonnes higher than the same
time last year) and there are a further
23.4 million tonnes at the pitheads.
NUM efforts to extend their action
by blockading coal imports and the
movement of coal through the active
support of the Transport and General
Workers and the rail unions also seem
unlikely to make much progress.
Micro threat
to GCHQ
triggered ban
by JULIAN ALLASON and DANIEL MAY
THE Government's Chel- make data safe from prying
tenham spy centre is eyes.'
threatened by a patent Lamont's method - also
application from a Barnsley said to protect information
computer firm. transmitted on new genera-
And the Ministry of tion fibre optic telephone
Defence has slapped a lines - is understood to
Secrecy Order on JCL protect data during trans-
Data's anti-copying techni- mission through the
que, believed by computer insertion of a special signal.
industry sources to be very It is likely that GCHQ and
similar to one secretly the American National
developed by the Govern-
ment Communications Security Agency have been
Headquarters. attempting to develop the
GCHQ is concerned that if same techniques for some
the technique is patented, years with the help of large
details could readily be mainframe computers. JCL,
bought by other commercial on the other hand, can
users and, more ominously, probably thank fast
by the Soviet bloc. microchip technology-and
It was the exposure of spy an appreciable amount of
Geoffrey Prime that first luck - for hitting on a
I alerted GCHQ to the technique so close to that
i copying of key computer used by GCHQ.
tapes. Prime had freely Faced with a growing
k
l
e to ta
been ab
e away of computer pir-
return copy them and problem
return them unnoticed. acy, invciving the theft of
Tapes were also said by everything from games to
employees to have gone sales projections, commer-
missing from GCHQ's Hong cial companies are prepared
Kong branch.
Now GCHQ is worried
not only that the JCL
breakthrough could enable
the Soviets to create their
own anti-copying protec-
tion, but that they might
also be able to ` reverse
engineer' it in such a way
to deactivate the blocking
device.
`The system works like a
lock,' JCL managing direc-
tor Jimes Lamont told The
to pay thousands of pounds
for effective techniques such
as the one developed by
JCL.
But the new JCL techni-
que is in a different league
having inadvertently step-
ped into the twilight world
of electronic espionage. The
MoD now has until 17 July
1985 to decide whether to
lift the ban on JCL's
software. The alternative
Observer. `Compared with will be for the Government
other systems it is cheap. It to go to Barnsley and stri1 e
is not a code, more of an a deal to buy the invention
imprint. It means you can direct from the inventor.
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US demand for iritroductjo
of ll~-detectors.biamed
By Paul Routledge, Labour Editor.,
Civil Service .union leaders continuedilI ,To.w.AfTet,'; tz ni. 'Sir Robert stt'ong,,,cttc'the
last night branded. he. Gove~rfi= #1,000 must suggest that it is im~licatinsofthe lengthy,lp8
merit's proposed ~uv-out ' of . unnatrint;n sn 1: JL - `_ . a_ w o W.
a ?? Qum u~uun mr aneiaon saia: This is a
that it would be rejected by( members are just as patriotic .cover-up, T c real reason fos,A
3.000 n sbers? and loyal as anY other ivil 'the announcbine it. is that they
They said: that the, Foreign servadta." "
Secretary"'s. reasons were' a. lie.
and the official version a cover=, ,union leaders,Y ~ led to ! LO inttutYtiee/the"'peIyWlph,~'w?
e we re opposed'. on the
up for ARiencan pressure on the the Cabinet- ofFice yesterday w
of I nterference ?. with
Cabinet to break union resist-- afternoon to be: told of the grounds
civil, ance to the introduction?of lie Foreign.Olfieembve, liberties. It is they USA:
detectors into sensitive defence' ThG'head of the civil service, putting the pressure on t e
installations. Government :about its security
The Council of Civil Service
Unions is demanding an early
meeting with Mrs 'Thatcher in
her 'role' cis head of the Civil
Service, to try, to. dissuade the
Government from going,aiiead
with' de-recognition of the five'
unions.
The TUC will be. brought into'
the dispute today,
Mr John Sheldon, general.
secretary of, the Civil 'Servics'
Union. which has the, largest
number of GCHQ members;'
described the ex-gratia payment
offered by Sir Geoffrey as "an
offensive bribe". "They already
have the loyalty of these people.:
It was proved in';.1981, when
despite ; the' pay :dispute a11
security work 'at Cheltenham
secretary of the largest White-'
hail' union; the Civil andPublie,
Services Association,
would have expected ; this ;>frm,
General: Jaruzelski r in Poland,-
but not ,fiom_a ;Prima Minister,
of a democratic state. ?I :do net,
believe. -that, people's, civil trade.: unionlibertiesi can. bo
boughtfori1,000."
The union : belieyq ; thatti
ministers think;, -?th4 aocep.I
enjoyed .by-a, full-time,.b-unioil-
officials to tbeii:.mem rs. at
GCHQ, is". a potential, security
hazard as _t'hey are not' positively
Concluded pat jpaseryt 0, !,
GCHQ union ban blamed
on pressure from US ;
Continued from page 1 . an appalling and unacceptable
Nato allies were unhappy that a denial of basic.rights.
national one-day stoppage and "Civil servants, whatever
further industrial sanctions at their work, deserve and require
Cheltenham and the tracking the protection of the union and
station at Bude in Cornwall proper union representation
would damage strategic'cover of just as much. as other workers.
signals traffic and hamper the It is grossly offensive for the
surveillance of Soviet warships. Foreign Secretary to imply that
In their announcement on the fact of trade union member-
March 8, 1981, the unions said: ship poses any hhreat to
"There will be a range of national security..If there are or
may be problems of any sort the
selective and disruptive action
which will affect Britain's secret Foreign 'Secretary should spell
communications surveillance out what they are and' discuss
network. There yvill be both them with unions concerned,
national and international re- not jump to the most extreme
percussions." measure possible.
Mr Len Murray , "The offer of a tam'e,. slits-
secretary of the TUC, is to mneral eet #1n0 0 bribes,. s'no cked up y~
leaders of the civil service to the right of genuine trade,
unions this morning. Last night, union . membership
he said: "This decision by the ' The Government has 'set a
Foreign Secretary, made with- deadline of March 1 foi GCHQ
out consultation- oi? --'advantti' emplogEns-r ' ewP1
notice to unions whatsoever, is gratia payments,
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Bettaney had few other interests
and distanced himself from the
stormy student politics. After
taking his first degree Mr
Bettaney began post graduate
work for a B Lift with a study of
Shakespearean quotations in Dr
Johnson's dictionary, but aban-
doned it in 1975 after discovering
another researcher was well
ahead of him.
He was elected president of the
college's small Middle Crinmon
Room.
Dr Fleeman said: "He went off
to join the Ministry of Defence or
that is the implication of what he
said." Mr Bettaney had a spell in
Northern Ireland and Dr Flee-
man last saw him last year. "He
said he was back in London and
might try to pick up his research
again. He seemed remarkably
unchanged, just a little bit older."
Dr Fleeman said: "I do not
think in retrospect that there was
anything that stood out about
him. He gave a strong impression
of dependability and of being a
man who was entirely trust-
worthy".
In Stoke yesterday, his aunt,
Mrs Elsie Bettaney, who took an
interest in him after his parents
died, refused to talk to reporters.
Earlier, she told one national
newspaper that he used to
telephone her regularly, some-
times saying he might be out of
touch for two or three weeks.
Mrs Bettaney said that her
nephew was a regular churchgoer
and had,no:girlfriends
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Quiet life of
M15 man on
tlichael Bettaney (above), the MI5 officer charged with
spying, lived quietly,at'No 5 Victoria Road, Coulsdon:
Spying charge,
By Stewert Tendler, for a drink last Christmas Day
Arthur Osman and And found his neighbour dis-
Nicholas Timmins cussed little apart from the
and 01f. r Da said
Michael Bettaney, the hattherwa
s'"a nice, frio dly man
M15 officer charged with - he always waved when he saw
espionage this week, has us._
station at 7.30am with his known to be a devout catholic,
briefcase. Mr Bettaney, displayed a crucifix
The neighbours who and a religious statuette in his
spoke of Mr Bettaney were home, but was not known as a
not even aware that he was parishioner at any local church.
the man who appeared in Yesterday at Pembroke Cot=
court at Horseferry Road on lege, Oxford, where Mr Bettaney
Tuesday, up in 1969, his devotion was
y, although some remembered by 'Doctor David
noticed considerable activity Flcentan, his tutor, who said that
at the house on Friday and Mr Bettaney "used to have great
Saturday after Mr Bettaney ding-dongs in college with a
was charged. contemporary who intended to be
Mr Bettaney, , an Oxford an Anglican priest. It was a sort
University English graduate, of greatgame and I used to rag
moved to the road of small him about it ,but' , he was
terraced houses about three or unshaknbie in his beliefs".
skirts of south London for
the past few years.
. His next-door neighbours
in Victoria Road, Coulsdon
in Surrey never learnt the
name of the bachelor who
lived alone at No 5, let alone
any clue too his'occupation.
Yesterday, as investi-
gators searched the beige-
painted house, few people in
the road could offer more
than a thumbnail sketch of
the well-built man some-
times seen setting off for the
to have paid #22,000 for hi s two' Is Stoke. Both nts parents are,dead.
Mr.
bedroom home. Bettaney :ca'me said' Dr
Always polite to his neigh- Fleeman,`,fromn a hutplile bckg-
bours, Mr Bettaney rarely round and proved'to be "reliable,
entered into conversation and diligent, hard-working student".
After taking to spend long periods year a first was given
away. One neighbour sent him a college oar exams, he h wan d given a
card last Christmas, but did not
see arncho Fes p table 'e upper
him until March, when Mr ally e earned a respectable upper
Bettaney thanked the man in'the second class degree in 1972. .
street. A member. of the university's
Mr George Day, who lives officer Training Corps, Mr
opposite, asked Mr Bettaney in' Continued on back page, col I
sitting alone with a drink and a
newspaper. But he seemed to
have few hobbies. At weekends,
he was always _ dressed in suit,
collar and tie.
The house was neat and tidy,
although Mr Bettaney,topk little
trouble with his 'small back
garden, which is overgrown.
Mr James Hammond, his
next-door neighbour; said: "We
sometimes saw him coming home
at six or seven imthe'evening but
then you might not see him for
weeks. `.`Sometimes Mr,Bettaney
would return with friends and the
Hammonds could 'hear loud
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