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.

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.

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