The Sunday Times: MI6 ‘Firm’ Spied on Green Groups
By Maurice Chittenden and Nicholas Rufford
Published on Sunday, June 17, 2001
A PRIVATE intelligence firm with close links to MI6 spied on environmental campaign groups to collect information for oil companies, including Shell and BP.
MPs are to demand an inquiry by Jack Straw, the foreign secretary, into whether the secret intelligence service used the firm as a front to spy on green activists.
Insider reports effectively scuppered Greenpeace campaigns against oil firms in the Atlantic and the North Sea.