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The Big Breach; From Top Secret to Maximum SecurityCompliments of http://www.192.comVienna to arrange an urgent meeting to discuss details of the contract.They arranged to meet two days later in the lobby of the Hilton incentral Amsterdam. The transcript showed that Fahd intended to give hersome more documentation concerning the components for the plant.Badger leaped at the opportunity. If we could eavesdrop on theconversation, we could learn about Fahd's intentions and the state ofthe Iranian chemical weapons programme. More important, though, werethe documents. A detailed look at the plans for the plant would beinvaluable. Badger ordered the whole PTCP section to drop whatever elsethey were doing and get cracking on this urgent task.Kiddie planned to fly in and out of Stansted airport, near her home inCambridgeshire, to Schipol airport. Badger got on to Customs and Exciseat Stansted and arranged for her to be searched on her return to theUK. To avoid arousing her suspicion, Customs suggested searching allthe other passengers and placing an undercover officer in the queue toplant a rumour that they were looking for drugs.Listening into the meeting in the hotel lobby would be more difficultand would require the cooperation of the Dutch secret service.Fortunately, the BVD (Binnenlands Villigheidsdienst) is one of MI6'sclosest allies overseas. They are regarded as reliable and efficient,and will usually drop everything to help MI6 on an urgent job. MI6 isstill a powerful player in the hierarchy of world intelligenceservices, so smaller services scurry to help out where they can,knowing that it will give them leverage to request a returned favour ata later date. Badger sent a FLASH high-priority telegram to the MI6station in The Hague and got the wheels turning immediately.The junior MI6 officer in The Hague station, HAG/2, drove over toAmsterdam with the BVD liaison officer to check out the possibilitiesof bugging the meeting. Walking into the Hilton lobby, they found alarge fountain in the centre of a number of tables, chairs and sofasand HAG/2 realised that it would be difficult to get a good-qualityaudible `take' of the meeting. There was no way to predict which tableKiddie and Fahd would sit at, bugging every table would be expensiveand time-consuming, and the sound from the fountain was just the sortof gentle white noise which is excellent for swamping microphones tunedto pick up distant conversations. These problems did not daunt theenergetic BVD, however. They pulled out all the stops to put into placea complicated and labour-intensive operational plan.Any guest of the Amsterdam Hilton hoping to enjoy a nice lunch in thelobby on Tuesday, 7 February 1995 was in for a disappointment. Theattractive fountain was turned off, a prominent sign announcing that itwas shut down `for maintenance', and most of the lobby was closed downwith rope barriers for `essential cleaning'. As with most Hiltonsworldwide, the hotel security manager was an agent of the local secretservice. The BVD asked him to temporarily rearrange the lobby, where asingle vacant table was wired for sound. A couple of `businessmen'occupied it to stop it being taken by incidental passers-by and all theremaining tables were filled with other businessmen, all BVD and MI6officers, amongst them Badger, HAG/2 and a couple of other members ofthe PTCP section. Everything was in place as Kiddie touched down. Shewas tailed as she took the shuttle bus into central Amsterdam.page- 131 - To purchase the original limited edition hardback version of this bookplease call 08000 192 192 or go to http://www.192.com
The Big Breach; From Top Secret to Maximum SecurityCompliments of http://www.192.comThe meticulously orchestrated plan started to go wrong as soon asKiddie arrived at the hotel. She failed to notice the two businessmenfinish their meeting and leave, vacating the wired table. Instead,Kiddie took one look at the busy coffee-room, decided that she didn'tlike what she saw and, calm as you like, walked over to the roped offarea, unclipped the rope and sat down in the area which had been`closed for cleaning'. There must have been a lot of Dutch expletivesdiscreetly spat into a large number of coffee cups that morning. It wasan embarassing cock-up for them in front of their MI6 guests. The BVDdid their best to remedy the situation. An officer with a briefcasefitted with a directional microphone made his way to a table not toofar from Kiddie in the roped-off area. When Fahd arrived and joined herten minutes later, he managed to get some take, but despite computerenhancement the tape proved inaudible. All we got from the meeting wasa couple of surveillance photographs, taken by the briefcase camera ofone of the businessmen, of Fahd handing over a thick sheaf of papers.Fortunately, Badger's frantic couple of days of planning were notentirely unrewarded as the other part of the plan worked far moresmoothly. As planned, all the disembarking passengers at Stansted wereheld up and searched. Kiddie was near the back of the queue, so all thepreceding passengers were inconvenienced. Eventually, it was her turn.While one officer diligently searched her carry-on luggage, distractingher by paying particular attention to personal and intimate items,another went through her briefcase. As soon as the officer found Fahd'sdocuments, he slipped them through a photocopier discreetly mountedunder the search bench, then quickly replaced the originals in herbriefcase. As we'd hoped, they were excellent intelligence and an aidto my efforts to bait Constantine into introducing me directly toKiddie.I was at my desk at Vauxhall Cross a couple of days later, studying thedocuments and trying to understand the technical specifications of theequipment, when my personal line rang. It was Sarah. `Hello darling,how's Moneypenny?' she laughed. But I knew straightaway that somethingwas wrong. Her voice was weak and strained and she was putting up abrave front.`Something's the matter, isn't it?' I asked quietly.`Yes . . .' she replied. `It's back.'Sarah had been in for a further check-up that morning. The doctors hadfound that the cancer had spread into her lymph system and she had beenreadmitted to hospital immediately for an urgent course ofchemotherapy. She didn't say so, but I knew from her voice that theprognosis was very poor. She died two months later.I put the phone down and held my head in my hands. I felt a numbingsickness and wanted to cry. My work seemed irrelevant and I discardedthe papers on my desk with contempt. I needed to get out into somefresh air. It was nearly 12.30 and the office bar would be open anymoment. I never normally drank at lunchtime but today would be anexception.I took a pint of Fosters on to the terrace outside the bar and sat downin the corner on one of the wooden benches overlooking the Thames andpage- 132 - To purchase the original limited edition hardback version of this bookplease call 08000 192 192 or go to http://www.192.com
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