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イギリスの国連スパイ活動、オブザーバー紙確認。イラク侵略のためのアメリカのスパイ活動にイギリスも関与していたことが確認されたというわけだ。
同紙はウィーン条約違反であることを指摘する。このことは外交の素人でもあるまいし当然米英は自覚していただろう。同紙はストロー外相の関与も示唆する。そして諜報対象にはミドル６以外に中国も含まれることを指摘している。
中国では最近台湾スパイリングの話があった。中国に対するブッシュの歩みよりも忘れてはならないことだ。
台湾スパイでは李登輝の明徳プロジェクトが思い出される。献金対象者には志方、橋本龍太郎、秋山といった面々が含まれる。
この最新兵器購入に関係する台湾ゲートにはイラク攻撃の必要性を訴えたカール・フォード、あるいは北朝鮮セックスアップで活躍のアーミテージ・レポートに名を連ねるジェームス・ケリー国務次官補も含まれる。
ケリーの上司に当るイラン・コントラ関与のシークレット・エージェント・マン、アーミテージはネオコンPNACのクリントンに対するイラク攻撃脅迫状でも名前が見ることができるが、日本では国連協調主義、中道のハト派であるかのように言われている。
パウエルの国連詐欺演説と同時に行われていたのがこうした米英の汚い盗聴活動だった。
そして「台湾から金を受け取った」ジェームス・ケリーは２００３年９月になって「いまや米中関係は、特定の領域においては最善の状態にある」と証言した。ブッシュの対中国政策の軟化を象徴する出来事である。
この国連スパイ事件には台湾、そして日本も一切関与していないのだろうか。
以下に本件、オブザーバー紙報道を転載する。
Martin Bright and Peter Beaumont
Sunday February 8, 2004
The Observer
Britain helped America to conduct a secret and potentially illegal spying operation at the United Nations in the run-up to the Iraq war, The Observer can reveal.
The operation, which targeted at least one permanent member of the UN Security Council, was almost certainly in breach of the Vienna conventions on diplomatic relations, which strictly outlaw espionage at the UN missions in New York.
Translators and analysts at the Government's top-secret surveillance centre GCHQ were ordered to co-operate with an American espionage 'surge' on Security Council delegations after a request from the US National Security Agency at the end of January 2003. This was designed to help smooth the way for a second UN resolution authorising war in Iraq.
The information was intended for US Secretary of State Colin Powell before his presentation on weapons of mass destruction to the Security Council on 5 February.
Sources close to the intelligence services have now confirmed that the request from the security agency was 'acted on' by the British authorities. It is also known that the operation caused significant disquiet in the intelligence community on both sides of the Atlantic.
An operation of this kind would almost certainly have been authorised by the director-general of GCHQ, David Pepper. But the revelation also raises serious questions for Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, who has overall responsibility for GCHQ.
Details of the operation were first revealed in The Observer on the eve of war last year, after the leaking of a top-secret memo from the NSA requesting British help.
But until today it was not known whether British spy chiefs had agreed to participate. The operation was ordered before deliberations over a second UN resolution and targeted the so- called 'swing nations' on the Security Council - Chile, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Angola, Guinea and Pakistan - whose votes were needed to proceed to war.
The first evidence has also emerged that China, a permanent member of the Security Council, was a likely target of the operation.
The Observer has discovered that a GCHQ translator, Katherine Gun, 29, who faces trial after leaking details of the US request, was hired by the surveillance centre as a Chinese language specialist. Documents of this level of secrecy are circulated on a strict 'need-to-know' basis. Security experts have said that it is highly unlikely that someone as junior as Gun would have seen the memo had she not been expected to use her language expertise in the operation.
She is thought to be an expert translator of Mandarin, the language of Chinese officialdom.
The memo, dated 31 January, 2003, stated that the security agency wanted to gather 'the whole gamut of information that could give US policymakers an edge in obtaining results favourable to US goals or to head off surprises'.
It was sent out four days after the UN's chief weapons inspector, Hans Blix, produced his interim response on Iraqi compliance with UN resolutions.
In the wake of the Hutton report and the establishment of inquiries into intelligence failures on both sides of the Atlantic, the Gun case represents a further risk to government credibility over the Iraq war, showing how far the US and Britain were prepared to go in their ultimately unsuccessful attempts to persuade the world of the case for UN support for war against Iraq.
The Gun trial will reopen embarrassing questions for the Government over the conflicting views on the legality of war which were debated in the run-up to the conflict. At the time when the memo was received at GCHQ, officials at the Foreign Office, Ministry of Defence and in the intelligence services - including senior legal advisers - were expressing serious doubts over the legality of any invasion.
At the time, The Observer was told by Foreign Office officials of serious doubts that the war was legal.
When the GCHQ revelations were first published in The Observer last March, the Attorney-General, Lord Goldsmith, had still not publicly announced his final advice to Downing Street.
At the time, it was expected that he would agree with most experts in international law that intervention would be unlawful without a second resolution.
The legality of the war was a highly sensitive issue for senior military officers on the eve of war, who were wary of being accused of war crimes in the aftermath of the conflict.
The former assistant chief of defence staff Sir Timothy Garden said that the legal basis of the war is all the more important now that Britain has signed up to the International Criminal Court.
'We did it on the best advice that was available in a democratic country. But following an order is not an excuse in the end.'
martin.bright@observer.co.uk
Observer article of March 2003
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