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The Big Breach; From Top Secret to Maximum SecurityCompliments of http://www.192.comassumed immediately that I was from British intelligence and even thegreenest of army privates in the Divulje barracks was smart enough toguess. The only people na‹ve enough to be duped by the fig-leaf were,it seemed, back in Head Office.The files revealed that Clive Mansell, profiting from his experience onSAFE HAVEN, set up the BAP station. He equipped a small office in theDivulje barracks with a computer and satellite dish and found asuitable flat in a fishing village a few kilometres from the barracks.But Mansell left after a few months on promotion to an administrativejob in Century House and Kenneth Roberts, the former Black Watchofficer who had been in UKO, took his place. Roberts was in post foreight months, and changed the scope of the job. Not content to restricthimself to networking in the Divulje barracks and the safety of theDalmatian coast, he travelled extensively around central and northernBosnia. Roberts's efforts paid dividends: he successfully recruited twouseful agents and had the cultivation of three more well advanced.STEENBOX was an official in the northern town of Tuzla who provided CXon the activities and intentions of the Bosnian militia unit basedthere, which stubbornly refused to fall wholly under the control ofSarajevo. DONNE, his most important recruit, was an official in theBosnian government in Sarajevo and provided key information on thetactics of the Bosnian delegation in the ICFY peace talks in Geneva.Roberts also brought in a four-man detachment of soldiers from 602Troop to beef up his communications and provide physical protection onforays into central Bosnia - 602 Troop are an 80-strong detachment fromthe Royal Signals Regiment whose permanent home is in Banbury,Oxfordshire. In peacetime, they man MI6's overseas high-frequency radiorelay stations and rotate between postings in Kowandi, northernAustralia (until it was closed in March 1993), Ascension Island,Northern Ireland and the Falklands where they support the chain oflistening stations in Chile. In wartime, they are responsible forproviding field communications for MI6 operations, such as during SAFEHAVEN, the Gulf War, and now in Bosnia. The four-man BAP detachmentinstalled HF radio sets, known as KALEX, which were faster and easierto use than the satellite communications used by Mansell. One was setup in the top floor of the Divulje barracks in Roberts's office, theother mounted in the back of a long-wheelbase Land Rover to providemobile communications.As if the flimsiness of my cover was not enough of a handicap, theH/BAP job would be a challenging enough post for an experienced officerto take on at such short notice. The unusual cover, complexity of thecommunication arrangements, logistical difficulties and physical risksall made it a daunting prospect for an inexperienced probationer likeme. There was a lot to cram in during the fortnight before flying outto Split.The scheduled British Airways flight touched down at Split airport onthe morning of the 8 November 1993. The apron of the small provincialairport was heaving with Hercules C-130s and Ilyushin 72 transportaircraft that were flying supplies to the besieged city of Sarajevo,and the terminal was teeming with transiting soldiers from themultinational UNPROFOR force, journalists, TV crews and refugees. Itwas not easy for Roberts to identify me in the arrivals hall. `Sorrypage- 111 - To purchase the original limited edition hardback version of this bookplease call 08000 192 192 or go to http://www.192.com