MI6 phone number leak or hoax?

RomanNose

RomanNose

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Pretty interesting, Lincolnshire poacher that was offair has been moved to a telephone line and someone "leaked the number to a news website." Using a disposed of email address.
http://www.kernelmag.com/features/report/4903/we-called-a-secret-mi6-phone-number/.

And then later on, it was shut down and had a new message.
http://www.kernelmag.com/features/report/4947/did-we-take-out-mi6s-secret-line/

If it is a hoax then whoever is saying the new message has a voice pretty similar to the woman who did the Lincolnshire poacher!
The numbers are registered to a voip company and other numbers in the same block are very strange.
http://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/1lwnc3/we_called_a_secret_mi6_phone_number/cc3l7ir
 
GCHQ are waiting for you to dial some of the numbers in that last link.... OP let us know how you get on.
 
Cosimo said:
GCHQ are waiting for you to dial some of the numbers in that last link.... OP let us know how you get on.
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No thanks!
The strangest part about it is the Simon Mason redirect. Maybe he works for MI6.
Also I would have thought that MI6 wouldn't buy blocks of numbers and use all of them, surely that's a security weakness?
 
What a pointless article - its not actually uncovered something other than telling us that a spy agency communicates with some of its agents by some method X. Its seemingly just caused an inconvenience to said spy agency by presumably causing them to not be able to use that number any more.

I would assume that some of these agents in the middle east (as the article claims use this line) would have other means to receive communications from their handlers - but presumably not all of them are in regular contact and it can't look good for the handlers to have to inform them that anything has been leaked given that some of these people are likely taking big risks spying for a foreign country and probably don't want to hear about things being leaked/compromised.
 
MI6 will deny it, as they have to.

Beyond that, this is pretty pointless, though i do wonder why it is called what it is...is it implying that the particular cell specialises in "moving" people?...because if it does, then that is the leak.
 
Not sure on this one.

The main problem with using a phone number is that if the agent were discovered, then this would point to them being a spy, unless the number is used once then killed somehow.

Simon Mason has been a long time number station enthusiast, with a web page with lots of recordings. Personally, I think this may be a hoax, but I'm not sure. If it is a hoax, it's a pretty good one. With the brown stuff hitting the fan in Syria then maybe seeing more spy traffic makes sense though?
 
Why are all those people on Reddit going mad over this? I don't see what's so interesting about it.

dowie said:
Its seemingly just caused an inconvenience to said spy agency by presumably causing them to not be able to use that number any more.
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This. People need to think of better things to do with their lives...
 
A secretive phone line probably run by a spy agency of this country?

As a random member of the public I demand to be let in on everything about it!
 
The first article is an interesting read knowing when my gramps operated and where he used to go to and during that range of years. Very interesting stuff.
 
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