UK to probe ex-minister over Cold War case
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June 29, 2012, Friday
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THE British government said yesterday it would investigate claims an ex-minister sold information to communist spies for a decade during the Cold War in clandestine meetings in cocktail lounges and swank restaurants.
The BBC reported that files in the archive of the Czech Security Service show that Raymond Mawby, an ex-Conservative Party lawmaker who briefly served as a junior minister in the mid-1960s, provided intelligence to spies working for Czechoslovakia - then a communist state - from around 1961 to 1971.
According to the files, Mawby offered information on his colleagues and even provided a sketch of the layout of the prime minister's office at No. 10 Downing Street.
"Mawby has also promised to carry out tasks such as asking questions in Parliament according to our needs," the BBC reported his handler as writing.
George Young, leader of the House of Commons, told legislators that the government would make "appropriate inquiries to see how we might get the full picture in the public domain."
Young, who said he had known Mawby, insisted that "only one side of the story" had been put forward.
The BBC reported that files in the archive of the Czech Security Service show that Raymond Mawby, an ex-Conservative Party lawmaker who briefly served as a junior minister in the mid-1960s, provided intelligence to spies working for Czechoslovakia - then a communist state - from around 1961 to 1971.
According to the files, Mawby offered information on his colleagues and even provided a sketch of the layout of the prime minister's office at No. 10 Downing Street.
"Mawby has also promised to carry out tasks such as asking questions in Parliament according to our needs," the BBC reported his handler as writing.
George Young, leader of the House of Commons, told legislators that the government would make "appropriate inquiries to see how we might get the full picture in the public domain."
Young, who said he had known Mawby, insisted that "only one side of the story" had been put forward.
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