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UK used Cyprus base to ‘secretly’ move ‘sensitive equipment’ (www.declassifieduk.org)

submitted 1 week ago by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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Britain has used its major air base on Cyprus to move sensitive equipment without scrutiny, declassified files show.

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) wrote in a formerly secret 1993 file that RAF Akrotiri plays a “key role in support of the Priority 1, Category A intelligence and communications effort” on Cyprus.

It added that “this secure airhead enables MOD and OGD [other government departments] to move sensitive equipment to and from Cyprus secretly and without scrutiny.”

Akrotiri was used by Britain for hundreds of surveillance flights over Gaza in aid of Israeli intelligence during its genocide.

The government says the flights were only intended to help find hostages held by Hamas.

The files, available at the National Archives but some of which remain partly censored, suggest the Cyprus base could have played a greater role in British operations than previously divulged by the government.

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[–] Arola@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Weird that the UK admits that it provided targeting information from the spy base in Cyprus to "help locate hostages held by Hamas" but doesn't consider, or admit that this information has the dual benefit of facilitating the annihilation of schools, hospitals, healthcare workers, press, UN, aid workers, civilians by Israel. They know exactly what they did - the Brits did it because they support Israel's right to flatten it's neighbours.