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The Big Breach; From Top Secret to Maximum SecurityCompliments of http://www.192.comthe policies of another country'. A few months later, via theAustralian Freedom of Information Act, my lawyers got proof that MI6were lying. They obtained a copy of a telegram sent by MI6 to ASIO on 2November 1998. Although many paragraphs were blacked out with thecensor's ink, it was clear that it was a request for a ban, to whichthe Australians had complied limply. Moreover, the date of the requestwas two days after my arrest, but long before I was convicted of acrime; MI6 were not content to see me receive only the punishmentdeemed fit by British law and had decided to add to it by stopping mefrom emigrating to Australia. Getting an Australian visa became a majorpreoccupation but after spending thousands of dollars of my savings onlegal fees, I realised that I was falling into the financial trap MI6had laid for me.Reasoning with MI6 was not working either, and the energetic efforts ofWarren Templeton and John Wadham were futile. My only remedy was to usepublicity again to bring them to the table. At the end of April, Ibought some web-design software and learnt how to build internet pages.My first site was an amateurish and jokey affair and appeared on theGeocities server late on the evening of Saturday, 1 May. The pagescontained nothing secret and were just a lighthearted poke at MI6. Onthe front page, there was a photograph of me in a silly hatsuperimposed against Vauxhall Cross, with the Monty Python theme tuneplaying in parody of MI6's absurd pursuit of me, and on the insidepages were copies of the documents served by the Australian, Americanand French authorities banning me from their countries at MI6'srequest. Nevertheless, on Monday morning the Geocities securityofficer, Mr Bruce Zanca, e-mailed me to say that they had received acomplaint about my website from a `third party' and were thereforeclosing down the site. By late morning my pages had disappeared. Ifound another empty space on the Geocities server and re-posted them,including Zanca's e-mail. A few hours later I got another, more irate,e-mail from Zanca telling me they had removed my new pages, andordering me not to post anything else onto their server. I copied thise-mail into my pages and posted everything back. That came down a fewhours later and Zanca got badly annoyed and threatened legal action.Fortunately, I didn't need to put them up again because word spreadaround the internet of the preposterous way that MI6 and Geocities werecensoring me, and numerous `mirrors' of my site sprang up.On 13 May, another site about MI6 appeared on Lyndon Larouche'swebsite, publishing a list of 115 names purporting to be of serving andformer MI6 officers. This news exploded onto the front pages ofnewspapers worldwide. Because of the publicity about my first site, Iwas immediately assumed to be the author.To this day, I do not know who published the famous list, but it wasnot me. I have my suspicions, however, that it was MI6 themselves. Theyhad a motive - to incriminate and blacken me. They had the means tomake the list and the knowledge to post it onto the internet withoutleaving a trace. And, despite their protestations to the contrary, thelist was not particularly damaging to them. Later I got the chance tostudy it for myself. I did not recognise most of the names and socannot comment as to whether they were from MI6 or from the FCO. Of thenames that I did recognise, all were retired from the service or werealready widely blown. If MI6 had set out to produce a list that causedpage- 222 - To purchase the original limited edition hardback version of this bookplease call 08000 192 192 or go to http://www.192.com