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The Big Breach; From Top Secret to Maximum SecurityCompliments of http://www.192.comlife, administer their pensions and, hopefully, find a decent job. ARgot in touch with Clacton DSS and found a small cottage for Simakov, soat least he was off Ryman's hands. A few weeks later, his wife anddaughter flew out to join him and AR sorted the family out with DSSpayments and schooling.I wrote the `submission' to the Foreign Secretary arguing that therewas justification for allowing SOU, the codename now allocated toSimakov, to remain in the UK. MI6 does not need any authorisation tomount small operations such as Trufax. But operations which might haveembarrassing consequences or, as in this case, affected the interestsof another part of the civil service, required the authorisation of theForeign Secretary. Douglas Hurd was notoriously diligent aboutexamining submissions, so my arguments had to be carefully drafted.Meanwhile, Knightley finished another long debriefing session with SOU.He stuck his head into my office late one afternoon, clutching a thicksheaf of notes from the four-hour session. `We've hit the jackpot withthis guy,' he enthused. `He's just given us the location of the RussianMOD's new strategic command headquarters.' Knightley produced a sketchmap showing the location and layout of a new, top secret command bunkerset deep inside a mountain in the Urals. It was a Russian equivalent tothe American NORAD complex in the Colorado mountains. `I'll be issuingthis as a five-star CX. It will go up to the PM,' Knightley said. Helater told me that it eventually reached President George Bush'soffice. `But there's loads more to come,' he added. `Apparently he lefta notebook filled with notes from the missile tests in his mother-inlaw'ssewing-box in Moscow. If we can get that notebook, we'll reallybe in business.'Knightley explained that the notebook described perturbations in theflight paths of every ballistic missile fired from the Soviet missiletest range in Kamchatcka between late 1987 and early 1990. SOU hadobsessively and illicitly noted all the numbers in a couple of schoolexercise books after each test flight. Such detail would aid the DIS'sunderstanding of the accuracy and range of the Soviet missile armory.More importantly, Knightley would pass the intelligence to theAmericans who could use it to improve their anti-ballistic missiledefences. It would bring considerable kudos for MI6. `We've got to getthat notebook out of Moscow,' concluded Knightley.7. NOTED FRIENDWEDNESDAY, 11 NOVEMBER 1992MIRROR ROOM, HOTEL METROPOL, MOSCOWI saw Goldstein over in the opposite corner of the crowded conferenceroom just before he spotted me. A bit plumper round the waist, hiscollar-size maybe an inch bigger, but still fond of Hermes ties, Guccishoes and expensive Italian suits - flamboyant tastes even by thediverse standards of the eclectic throng of delegates mingling in theelegantly mirrored room. I had not seen him for over five years, sinceshortly after the trimphone incident, but it was certainly him. Worse,page- 80 - To purchase the original limited edition hardback version of this bookplease call 08000 192 192 or go to http://www.192.com