The wife of the new head of Britain's spy agency has posted pictures of her husband, family and friends on internet networking site Facebook, details which may compromise UK security. John Sawers is due to take over as head of the Secret Intelligence Service in November. The SIS, popularly known as MI6, is Britain's global intelligence-gathering organisation.
In what the UK, Mail on Sunday called an "extraordinary lapse," the new spy chief's wife, Lady Shelley Sawers, posted family pictures and exposed details of where the couple live and take their holidays and who their friends and relatives are.
The details could be viewed by any of the many millions of Facebook users around the world, but were swiftly removed once authorities were alerted by the newspaper's enquiries. That's the last holiday in Blackpool that they will be having.
"There were fears that the hugely embarrassing blunder could have compromised the safety of Sir John's family and friends," the newspaper said. Although, the published details are most likely common knowledge to the other spy and secret service departments around the world.
Publishing the story on its front page and the pictures on a double-page spread, the Mail on Sunday said the information "could potentially be useful to hostile foreign powers or terrorists."It was good of them to bring it to everyone's attention, just in case anyone had missed it.
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