British spy loses secrets in a handbag - Times Online: "A BRITISH agent has thrown the war against drug traffickers into chaos by leaving top secret information about covert operations on a bus in South America.
In a blunder that has cost taxpayers millions of pounds and put scores of lives at risk, the drugs liaison officer lost a computer memory stick said to contain a list of undercover agents’ names and details of more than five years of intelligence work.
It happened when the MI6-trained agent left her handbag on a transit coach at El Dorado airport in Bogota, Colombia. Intelligence chiefs were forced to wind up operations and relocate dozens of agents and informants amid fears the device could fall into the hands of drugs barons."
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Gee, I hope this doesn't affect her yearly performance appraisal.
The way this would play out in fiction: she deliberately left the disk on the bus; the word is deliberately leaked that she did and that it contains the names of agents and they'll be in danger. But all of the names are bogus, probably names of people MI-6 wants eliminated. It's that "Zanti Misfit" gambit from 'The Outer Limits' - get somebody else to do your dirty work for you.
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