Ashdown was MI6 agent - reports
Paddy Ashdown, currently the top international administrator in Bosnia, was in the 1970s an agent for the British MI6 secret service, Sarajevo daily newspapers reported today.
According to the Oslobodjenje and Dnevni Avaz newspapers, Ashdown’s name was published on the internet as part of a list of 311 MI6 agents stating the British diplomat was based in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1974.
Ashdown was made a Lord in 2001. The former soldier had led the Liberal Democrats for more than 10 years.
He left the Royal Marines in 1972 and joined the Foreign Office. He was posted to the British Mission to the United Nations in Geneva where he was responsible for Britain’s relations with a number of United Nations organisations.
