MI5 file on 126 bus service from Birmingham to Wolverhampton!

By Roshan Doug on Jun 15, 08 12:07 PM in

Well, not really.

But this weekend we've learnt that, within a couple of days of each other, another top secret file has been found left carelessly on a train - apparently on the same service but going in the opposite direction.

You couldn't make it up, could you? I mean, if John Le Carre included something like this in one of his novels, you'd think how implausible! A civil servant or a government official leaving valuable documents on public transport? No way.

But that's exactly what's happened.

The file was sent to the Independent on Sunday - although this morning the paper said that it had returned the documents and would not be divulging any details contained in them.

The confidential files were said to include details of how trade and banking systems could be manipulated to finance illicit weapons of mass destruction in Iran.

They also discussed methods of terrorist funding and the potential fraud of commercial websites and international internet payment systems.

And I'm sure there's a lot more contained in them that the newspaper hasn't printed.

I don't know about you but if I were a member of Al Qaeda looking for top secret documents, I wouldn't try and infiltrate MI5 or hack into their sophisticated web of communications and security systems.

How time-consuming that'd be!

No.

If you were relatively intelligent, all you'd have to do is wait for the 8.16 Virgin from Milton Keynes to Euston. Get on. And, if last week is anything to go by, amongst used newspapers left behind by passengers, there'd be a brightly coloured file with more or less everything you'd need to know about our intelligence services' priorities.

Simple.

And who knows, next time there might even be a highly classified file on the 126 bus service from Birmingham to Wolverhampton.

Preposterous? Don't you dare knock it.