MI6 Nixed Major Undercover Operation After Memory Stick Lost
May 3, 2009 by national
Filed under World Report
The United Kingdom’s MI6 agency acknowledged this week that in 2006 it had to scrap a multi-million-dollar undercover drug operation after an agent left a memory stick filled with top-secret data on a transit coach.
The unidentified female agent left the stick behind in her handbag.
Undercover agents and informants were put at risk by the loss of data, and some had to be relocated to protect their lives.
