The Spy Out Of Facebook

Spies are not like what they used to be. Not even the British secret service. No matter how intriguing and mysterious they had been written about in books by renowned authors, from John LeCarre to Graham Green to Ian Fleming. We have been led to imagine a secret agent of MI6 with the face of Michael Caine or Sean Connery, even though one day we discovered their faces on the menu card of Langan's Brasserie or an advertisement of razor blades. Something never would have been permitted to a MI6 agent, to protect their identity.

A secret agent on active duty has no name, only numbers or initials. Sir John Sawers is a diplomat with ties from Jermyn Street, suits from Saville Row and academic degrees from Saint Andrews and Harvard. He was selected by Gordon Brown to direct the MI6, the service of exterior espionage of the United Kingdom. He was the ambassador of his country in the United Nations and, since the appointment, became simply 'C', to safeguard to the maximum his personal biography.

However, on the same day he was nominated for the post, his wife posted on Facebook a huge collection of their family photos, and a list of personal references that illustrate details of their family life, including even their home address. At the blink of an eye 200 million people have access to the private data that should have been securely protected. The spy coming out of Facebook. Contemporary spies are nothing like those of past years, nor are their wives like those of their predecessors, some of whom never did know about their husband's real jobs.

The chief of British diplomacy David Miliband remarked that everyone knows now that Sawers wears tight 'speedo' type swimming trunks, called 'braga nautica' here in Spain - nautic panties! It's being debated in various quarters whether it's appropriate for the politician, the maximum responsible for the secret external services of Great Britain. Given that, since the great success of James Bond, elegance and sophistication are trademarks of the secret service agency.

Lady Shalley Sawers not only posted on Facebook, for all to see, her husband in the dainty little 'panties', but also hundreds of photos of him with the children, other Family members and friends, his relationship with his father and half brother, etc.Tags:spysectetservice,

Could it be that with so many friendly smiles, John Sawer wishes to send the message to Ahmadineyad and Co., that we are good guys, there's no need for bombs?

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