§ 18. Mr. DalyellTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the progress of action taken to break up the network of Abdul Quader Khan since 18 December 1979. [157430]
§ Mr. Mike O'BrienThe intelligence community in the UK and in the US have been working on this network for several years—they identified it, monitored it, penetrated it, and finally took action against it with the result we have seen in recent weeks. We, the US Government and other Governments are now engaged in winding it up.