SPY TRIAL DATE

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• Publication Date: January 14, 1984
• Content Type: NSPR

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SPY TRIAL DATE
The Old Bailey hearing of
six spying charges against
Michael Bettaney, 33, an M15
officer, of Victoria Road,
Coulsdon, Surrey, will he on
April 10, his solicitor, Mr
Larry Grant, said yesterday.
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1' of involvement in a E2.4 million VAT fraud.
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building with a white plastic
bag over his head.
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today, having spent two nights
in an hotel. to continue their !
considerations in the case of
three more rnen.
'T'here have been two trials
lasting six months and costinc
the taxpayer an estimated
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THE WASHINGTON POST
Thursday. January .^6. 1984
For the Rm and , ? Citing national security interests,
the British government banned union
membership at a key western intelli-
gence-gathering facility, the top-secret
Government Communications Head-
quarters at Cheltenham...
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BRITAIN
The unions sent out
in the cold
Was the government finding life dull?
Only that or some new spy horror seem
to be the explanations for the way it
stumbled this week into a row with the
civil servants' unions over excluding them
from the secret communications centre at
Cheltenham. Union leaders, such as the
normally reserved Mr Bill McCall of the
Institution of Professional Civil Servants
(IPCS), were . puce above their white
collars on Wednesday evening. Hours
earlier they had been summoned to a
meeting with Sir Robert Armstrong,
head of the civil service, to be told of the
foreign secretary's announcement-10
-minutes before it was made in the house
of commons.
Not even the hush-puppy style of Sir
Geoffrey Howe could dampen the row
his statement about workers at the gov-
ernment communications headquarters
(GCHQ) sparked off. He had discovered
an issue that combines trade unions, civil
rights and security. Meetings to plan
protests among the 70% of the 3,000
Cheltenham staff who are union mem-
bers (there are a further 4,000 staff
abroad) began the following day, though
the union leaders want to avoid anything
too extreme that would appear to justify
the government's action.
Justification is so far in short supply.
Whitehall would say only that the deci-
sion to use obscure clauses of the Em-
ployment Protection Acts to disbar civil
servants at Cheltenham from belonging
to anything but a tame house union
(there is none yet) was caused by the
industrial action taken by workers there
during the civil servants' pay dispute in
1981 and GCHQ's special vulnerability
to selective disruption. According to
ministers, the response to the 1981 dis-
pute had been carefully planned; hence
the delay.
Some union leaders agree that the
action is a response to what happened in
1981. Others think it has more to do with
the introduction of lie detectors at Chel-
tenham next month; the unions oppose
them. Neither explanation is wholly con-
vincing. Although Mr. McCall of the
IPCS admits that work at the signals
centre was ? disrupted in 1981, he claims
that essential services were maintained.
None the less if there had been a full-
.scale international crisis at the time,
there would have been a real problem.
But he says that the unions have been
offering the government a deal which
would prevent industrial action ever
hurting Cheltenham. Alienating many of
the 8,000 workers seems an odd way to
improve security.
Mrs Thatcher will have been involved
in the decision as ultimate head of the
security services. She will need to offer
members of parliament convincing rea-
sons for the ban. If opposition MPs
demand a debate, Sir Geoffrey will have
to elaborate on what he said in the house
on Wednesday. The issue has wider
union implications. Ministers are consid-
ering legislation to ban strikes in essential
public services. Is this the start? The
employment secretary, Mr Tom King,
was saying only two months ago that he
was concerned not to "rush out and do a
botched job" on such a law.
The government has been under pres-
sure from the Americans to tighten secu-
rity at the signals centre ever since the
sexually deviant spy Mr Geoffrey Prime
was uncovered and convicted in 1982.
Late last year six lie detectors were
purchased through the British embassy in
Washington, and an official was installed
at the centre to prepare to use them.
They are due to be used at random from
March in the routine positive vetting
done on civil servants in the security
services every five years. Some 70,000
civil servants go through positive vetting,
but the lie detectors (known as poly-
graphs) are to be used only in M15, M16
and the Cheltenham signals centre.
Sir Geoffrey was insistent in his state-
ment that the government "fully respects
the right of civil servants to be members
of a trade union, and it is only the special
nature of the work of the GCHQ which
led us to take these measures". He -
assured MPs that it was not the govern-
ment's intention to introduce similar
measures outside the field of security and
intelligence. The staff at Cheltenham,
who were told about the decision them-
selves on Wednesday afternoon, are be-
ing offered #1,000 each to compensate for
losing their trade-union rights.
According to their national leaders, the
money was being seen by staff on the spot
as adding insult to injury. Staff who
cannot. accept loss of union membership
are to be allowed to seek a transfer. It is
difficult to see where they can go. Nearly
all are specialised communications ex-
perts or linguists. Anywhere they could
find a market for their skills would be
subject to the same security rules that the
government has now decided are incom-
patible with trade-union membership.
There are rumours that there may be
another spy in Cheltenham, and that this
week's measures .were thought a neces-
sary sign of toughness before any scandal
were to break. Sir Geoffrey vigorously
denies scandal, American pressure or any
other sinister motive. Why then was it
done?
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BRITAIN
The unions sent out
in the cold
Was the government finding life dull?
Only that or some new spy horror seem
to be the explanations for the way it
stumbled this week into a row with the
civil servants' unions over excluding them
from the secret communications centre at
Cheltenham. Union leaders, such as the
normally reserved Mr Bill McCall of the
Institution of Professional Civil Servants
(IPCS), were puce above their white
collars on Wednesday evening. Hours
earlier they had been summoned to a
meeting with Sir Robert Armstrong,
head of the civil service, to be told of the
foreign secretary's announcement-10
minutes before it was made in the house
of commons.
Not even the hush-puppy style of Sir
Geoffrey Howe could dampen the row
his statement about workers at the gov-
ernment communications headquarters
(GCHQ) sparked off. He had discovered
an issue that combines trade unions, civil
rights and security. Meetings to plan
protests among the 70% of the 3,000
Cheltenham staff who are union mem-
bers (there are a further 4,000 staff
abroad) .began the following day, though
the union leaders want to avoid anything
too extreme that would appear to justify
the government's action.
Justification is so far in short supply.
Whitehall would say only that the deci-
sion to use obscure clauses of the Em-
ployment Protection Acts to disbar civil
servants at Cheltenham from belonging
to anything but a tame house union
(there is none yet) was caused by the
industrial action taken by workers there
during the civil servants' pay dispute in
1981 and GCHQ's special vulnerability
to selective disruption. According to
ministers, the response to the 1981 dis-
pute had been carefully planned; hence
the delay.
Some union leaders agree that the
action is a response to what happened in
1981. Others think it has more to do with
the introduction of lie detectors at Chel-
tenham next month; the unions oppose
them. Neither explanation is wholly con-
vincing. Although Mr McCall of the
IPCS admits that work at the signals
centre was disrupted in 1981, he claims
that essential services were maintained.
None the less if there had been a full-
scale international crisis at the time,
there would have been a real problem.
But he says that the unions have been
offering the government a deal which
would prevent industrial action ever
hurting Cheltenham. Alienating many of
the 8,000 workers seems an odd way to
improve security.
Mrs Thatcher will have been involved
in the decision as ultimate head of the
security services. She will need to offer
members of parliament convincing rea-
sons for the ban. If opposition MPs
demand a debate, Sir Geoffrey will have
to elaborate on what he said in the house
on Wednesday. The issue has wider
union implications. Ministers are consid-
ering legislation to ban strikes in essential
public services. Is this the start? The
employment secretary, Mr Tom King,
was saying only two months ago that he
was concerned not to "rush out and do a
botched job" on such a law.
The government has been under pres-
sure from the Americans to tighten secu-
rity at the signals centre ever since the
sexually deviant spy Mr Geoffrey Prime
was uncovered and convicted in 1982.
Late last year six lie detectors were
purchased through the British embassy in
Washington, and an official was installed
at the centre to prepare to use them.
They are due to be used at random from
March in the routine positive vetting
done on civil servants in the security
services every five years. Some 70,000
civil servants go through positive vetting,
but the lie detectors (known as poly-
graphs) are to be used only in M15, M16
and the Cheltenham signals centre.
Sir Geoffrey was insistent in his state-
ment that the government "fully respects
the right of civil servants to be members
of a trade union, and it is only the special
nature of the work of the GCHQ which
led us to take these measures". He
assured MPs that it was not the govern-
ment's intention to introduce similar
measures outside the field of security and
intelligence. The staff at Cheltenham,
who were told about the decision them-
selves on Wednesday afternoon, are be-
ing offered #1,000 each to compensate for
losing their trade-union rights.
According to their national leaders, the
money was being seen by staff on the spot
as adding insult to injury. Staff who
cannot accept loss of union membership
are to be allowed to seek a transfer. It is
difficult to see where they can go. Nearly
all are specialised communications ex-
perts or linguists. Anywhere they could
find a market for their skills would be
subject to the same security rules that the
government has now decided are incom-
patible with trade-union membership.
There are rumours that there may be
another spy in Cheltenham, and that this
week's measures were thought a neces-
sary sign of toughness before any scandal
were to break. Sir Geoffrey vigorously
denies scandal, American pressure or any
other sinister motive. Why then was it
done?
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Date for hearing
on spy charges
THE Old Bailey hearing of
spying charges against Michael
13ettancy, an M15 officer, will be
on April 10, his solicitor, Mr
Larry Grant, said yesterday.
Bettaney, aged 33, of Vic.
toria Road, Coulsdon, Surrey,
faces six charges under the
Official Secrets Acts" of' 1911
and 1920. _ These include a
charge of passing on inform.
ation about the expulsion of
three Soviet diplomats on
April 3 last year.
Among further charges, it is
alleged that on June 12 last
year he passed on an official
British assessment of Soviet in.
telligence operations in the
UK, and that between Decem?
ber 31, 1982, and September 17
last year, he collected inform.
ation calculated to be useful to
an enemy. His defence will be
conducted by Mr Michael
Mansfield and Miss Helena
Kennedy.
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