§ Q5. Mr. Fletcherasked the Prime Minister what instructions have been given to Ministers and Junior Ministers about disclosing to the Press or the public matters relating to the extent and nature of espionage.
§ The Prime MinisterI would refer the hon. Gentleman to the reply which I gave to the hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan) on 20th November.
§ Mr. FletcherIs the Prime Minister aware that he has not answered the real question, which is: does the Prime Minister agree or not with the statement of the Civil Lord of the Admiralty that there are not a dozen, a hundred but thousands of spies in the embassies, consulates and trade missions, all trained to detect weakness in character—weakness with drink, blondes, drugs, and homosexuality—and that all this is carefully indexed for future use? If the right hon. Gentleman agrees with it, what is he doing about it?
§ The Prime MinisterWe discussed this at some length on Thursday with a right hon. Gentleman opposite and I thought that, though perhaps in language somewhat different from that which I used, he described what I described—a massive attack on our security.