The Operation And The Reporter

A former officer of a national intelligence service had spent about eighteen months working on a secret operation aimed at a foreign country's nuclear weapons programme. He later brought claims against the service, which refused to settle them on his terms. Prosecutors said that afterwards he telephoned and emailed a national newspaper reporter and sent him material about that operation. The reporter published it in a book three years later. He was also accused of deleting emails to frustrate a grand jury.