11 March 2000: Revised English translation by Frederico Duarte.
10 March 2000. Thanks to Frederico Duarte, Tal&Qual reporter of "Spies In Lisbon." English translation by Mr. Duarte.
See David Shayler on MI6 officers PT-16B and PT-16: http://cryptome.org/shayler021600.htm
See the Qadahfi assassination plot report: http://cryptome.org/qadahfi-plot.htm
To contact Mr. Duarte: duarte@cryptome.org
[Published 10 March 2000 in Tal&Qual, a Lisbon, Portugal weekly, page 12. Frederico Duarte, reporter.]
The British Home Secretary, Jack Straw, was in Lisbon last week for the EU interior ministers reunion, at the ancient FIL space (Feira Internacional de Lisboa). The British minister was the star of the meeting because his visit coincided with the decison to free the ancient dictator Pinochet to return to Chile .
But Jack Straw has now to solve the case of David Shayler, the renegade spy from the British Secret Services, MI5, who is exiled in France because he can be arrested as soon as he arrives in the U.K.
Among British journalists there's a certain bad feeling, because the Official Secrets Act forbids them from revealing the names of David Watson and Richard Bartlitt, alleged secret agents PT-16B and PT16 from MI6, and presumably the ones responsible for the murder attempt on the Libyan leader Gadafy, a fact linked with the revelations of David Shayler in Paris. Here is the record of those names, mentioned in Lisbon, in order that our British colleagues might keep on with their mission to inform in Democracy.
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TAL&QUAL, 10 March 2000
O minstro britânico do interior, Jack Straw, èsteve a semana passada em Lisboa para a reunião europeia dos ministros da Administracão Interna, na antiga FII. O ministro britânico foi a estrela do encontro, visto a visita ter coincidido com a decisão de deixar partir em liberade para o Chile o antigo ditador Pinochet.
Poré, Jack straw tem agora para resolver o caso de David Shayler, o espião renegado dos servicos secretos ingleses, MI5, que está exilado em Franca porque pode ser preso assim que ponha os pés no Reino Unido.
Entre os jornolistas ingleses corre um certo mal-estar, pois a lei dos segredo de Estado impede-os de mencionarem os nomes de David Watson e Richard Bartlitt, alegados agentes secretos PT-16B e PT-16 do MI6, e presumíveis pela tentativa de assissinato do líder líbio Kadafi, facto relacionado com as revelações de David Shayler em Paris. Fica acqui o registo destes nomes, mencionados em Lisboa, para que os colegas britânicos possam prosseguir com a sua missão de informar em democracia.
[Photo] Jack Straw.
Frederico Duarte is a 27-year-old journalist at Tal&Qual since 1996. Mr. Duarte is preparing a book on Michael John Smith who was convicted in 1993 of charges by the British Government that he was a spy for the KGB. Mr. John Smith was sentenced to 25 years and is now in Full Sutton Prison, York.
Mr. Duarte has researched and written on intelligence and espionage since 1992, when his interest was stimulated by the John Smith case that had connections with Oporto, Portugal, Mr. Duarte's hometown. Mr. Duarte has found information on the John Smith case not presented during the trial which supports Mr. John Smith's claims of innocence. He welcomes additional information on the case. Send to: duarte@cryptome.org