Posted on 03/08/2004 6:51:50 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
Newsmax has leaned that British U.N. ambassador Sir Emyr Jones Parry was summoned to a private meeting by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan last week. While not officially explaining the reason for the ad hoc "get together," diplomatic sources say it was to "discuss" the allegations made by former UK-Blair cabinet member Claire Short that MI 6 (UK intelligence) had been spying on private meetings within Annan's office at U.N. headquarters. Word around the U.N. complex is that a security sweep of Annan's offices and the floors directly beneath and above them, recently turned up several "items of interest," so claim several U.N. security staffers. The items appeared to be some sort of listening or recording devices. Some of these items, it is said, were sent for an "outside" analysis. When the "analysis" produced some positive results, Annan, it is said, decided to confront the UK ambassador. It is believed that Annan not only confronted the Brit about the U.N.'s findings but hinted that if it continued, the U.N. might go public. It is not known, what the British ambassador may have said, if anything. Nobody within the U.N. diplomatic corps can ever remember such a confrontation between a secrerary-general and a permanent 5 ambassador taking place, especially on the issue of spying. Calls to the UK mission were not returned. Calls to the U.S. mission were referred to the UK. Ironically, the only smiling face belonged to French ambassador Jean-Marc de La Sabliere, who told NewsMax as he was travelling through the U.N., "I must be careful, you know, the walls, they have bugs!"
Wouldn't this make Claire Short a traitor...?
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