British intelligence officers have a firm foothold in Libya. Their subtle moves may be more explosive than the bombing campaign
Richard Norton-Taylor
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 5 April 2011
"....Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, better known as MI6, is in the thick of it and the Libyan conflict should be right up its street....
CIA and MI6 officers are active in Libya, doing what they are trained to do – encouraging influential people to come over, to defect. Both agencies have a special relationship with Muammar Gaddafi's Libya. They monitored it closely when Gaddafi was funding and supplying terrorists in western Europe, including the IRA. Their senior officers, Sir Mark Allen of MI6, Stephen Kappes of the CIA, were deeply involved in talks with Tripoli over compensation for the victims of Libyan-sponsored terrorism, including Lockerbie. In 2003, they celebrated months of talks leading to Gaddafi's decision to give up weapons of mass destruction with a long lunch at the Travellers Club in Pall Mall. A year later, and after failing to get the top job at MI6, Allen joined BP, a company that was to benefit from trade deals agreed between Libya and the Blair government. On the Libyan side, heading the negotiations that culminated in the Travellers lunch was Moussa Koussa, Gaddafi's wily head of foreign intelligence who also gave the UK and US information about al-Qaida's presence in North Africa......"
Richard Norton-Taylor
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 5 April 2011
"....Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, better known as MI6, is in the thick of it and the Libyan conflict should be right up its street....
CIA and MI6 officers are active in Libya, doing what they are trained to do – encouraging influential people to come over, to defect. Both agencies have a special relationship with Muammar Gaddafi's Libya. They monitored it closely when Gaddafi was funding and supplying terrorists in western Europe, including the IRA. Their senior officers, Sir Mark Allen of MI6, Stephen Kappes of the CIA, were deeply involved in talks with Tripoli over compensation for the victims of Libyan-sponsored terrorism, including Lockerbie. In 2003, they celebrated months of talks leading to Gaddafi's decision to give up weapons of mass destruction with a long lunch at the Travellers Club in Pall Mall. A year later, and after failing to get the top job at MI6, Allen joined BP, a company that was to benefit from trade deals agreed between Libya and the Blair government. On the Libyan side, heading the negotiations that culminated in the Travellers lunch was Moussa Koussa, Gaddafi's wily head of foreign intelligence who also gave the UK and US information about al-Qaida's presence in North Africa......"
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