SECURITY TO BE REVIEWED AFTER SPY CASE INDICTMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP96B01172R000300020025-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 28, 2005
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: March 30, 1984
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Rele
Security to be reviewed
after spy case indictment
By Ian Aitken
Political Editor
The. Prime Minister yester-
day authorised a review of the
Defence Intelligence Staff at
the Ministry of Defence as a
result of a Security Commis
lion inquiry into a bizarre spy
case in which an army lance
corporal tried, but failed, to
convey a secret document to
the Soviet embassy.
The Security Commission has
also recommended changes in
the circumstances in which
Trefgarne---wrote
to:,M P
Aldridge was in due course un-
'masked and -brought to jus-
tiice."
But it does not tell the story
of how tihis was achieved, not-
ing that the account QI " these
highly successful operations "
was set out .in an appendix de-
leted from the published ver-
sion. It recognises that this is
unfortunate, since Britain's
counter-intelligence s e r v i c e
could have been seen at its
best, had . it been possible to
publish the facts.
By an unhappy coincidence a
Defence Department minister
confirmed yesterday that an in-
quiry was continuing' into, an-
othe case in which it seemed
likely that British military see-
people under the, age of 21
should be allowed access to top
secret material, and has sug?
gested changes in the degree
of supervision to which they
i7ou?ld he subjected.'
y4- 1' Minister, also
act':pied this recommend.
atio:i, which has bearing on
Ole Government's reaction to
the case of Miss Sarah Tisdall
and her access to sensitive
material in the private office of
the Foreign Secretary.
She made it clear that al'1 the
conrnrission's recommendations
will apply to the whole of
Whitehall - including the
l"orcign Office.
A further aspect. of the
commission's report also
touches on the current mood
of economy in Whitehall.. More
than once the commission's
report refers to security prob-
lems created by the workload
of the DIS, and by the short-
age of staff involved in protect-
ing secret information.
The commission's report con-
cerns the case of. Lance Cor-
was seconded to ~g ~,, i1,`.Etbep ~I' thy' ernbairassment of
'Ministry of DeferSr~d' ' n'.,c{:rd,e:;. sea; -.n>{ errs
parlment concerned with des: game, Under-Secretary-'fdr the
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