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...Labor foes in the House of Commons have sharpened their claws under their new leader, Neil Kinnock, and Thatcher's Tory backbenchers have risen up in mini-rebellions. The government's recent decision to ban union members from employment at the super-secret Government Communications Headquarters in Cheltenham, because of the fear of work stoppages that could affect security, was vigorously attacked. Not only Labor and the unions but civil libertarians and many other Britons expressed opposition to the policy as fundamentally unfair. Thatcher has also been subjected to hostile grilling in the Commons about the business dealings...
...Geoffrey Arthur Prime was serving with the British Royal Air Force in West Berlin when he offered his services to the KGB in 1968. Over much of the next 13 years, he worked as a Russian translator at Britain's top-secret electronic intelligence center in Cheltenham, and he managed to pass the Soviets sensitive information on British and American counterespionage efforts. After Prime was picked up last year for a sex offense involving a 14-year-old girl, his wife reported to police that she had uncovered spy equipment he had used...
...British leaders. For Thatcher, it was an unwelcome embarrassment in a week marked by revelations that a number of new leaks had been detected in Britain's sievelike national security system. Only three weeks ago, Geoffrey Prime, a Russian-language expert at Britain's top-secret Cheltenham communications center, pleaded guilty to charges of spying for the Soviet Union. It was enough to give the already rattled British a bad case of jitters. Said a group of Conservative Members of Parliament who called for a judicial investigation of the "parlous" state of British security: "The time for bland...
...prison for passing government secrets to the Soviet Union between 1968 and 1981. Prime pleaded guilty to seven counts of violating Britain's Official Secrets Act. For most of those 14 years. Prime worked as a Russian language specialist at the top-secret electronic intelligence center at Cheltenham. The facility, part of a four-nation intelligence network that includes the U.S., Australia and Canada, serves as the nerve center for worldwide monitoring of Soviet communications. Prime had access to sensitive data on the identification of the targets of British and American surveillance efforts. As a senior translator at Cheltenham...
...modest ?10,000 over the years) and the names of two contacts, Igor and Valya. After leaving the R.A.F., Prime returned to London later that year to work for the Joint Technical Language Service. He continued passing secret information to the Soviets even after resigning his government post at Cheltenham in 1977. Prime's final meeting with Soviet agents came in November 1981, when, he said, he was questioned in Potsdam "about allied activities that were top secret...