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arethuza on May 23, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: What does GCHQ know about our devices that we don'...

Nitpick - it was MI6 (AKA The Secret Intelligence Service) that plotted to kill Nasser - MI5 is the Security Service.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spycatcher

Poor Harold Wilson - he really was a case of 'Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you'

NB Given the famously poor relationship between MI5 and MI6 I did wonder if the former had decided to take up "spying" by itself... :-)

pjc50 on May 23, 2014 [–]

I pasted from the court transcript and you're quoting Wikipedia. Let's see if I can get the page corrected with a primary source ...

arethuza on May 23, 2014 | [–]

The book appears to say:

"At the beginning of the Suez Crisis, MI6 developed a plan, through the London Station, to assassinate Nasser using nerve gas."

According to this PDF:

https://wikispooks.com/w/images/a/a5/Spycatcher.pdf

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