{"id":1246,"date":"2007-09-13T05:08:46","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T05:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/surveillance-big-brother\/paddy-ashdown-was-a-spy\/1246\/"},"modified":"2007-09-13T05:08:46","modified_gmt":"2007-09-13T05:08:46","slug":"paddy-ashdown-was-a-spy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/surveillance-big-brother\/paddy-ashdown-was-a-spy\/","title":{"rendered":"Paddy Ashdown was a spy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\" class=\"add-linkout\">EX-LIB Dem leader Lord Paddy Ashdown has been outed as a spy by successor Sir Menzies Campbell.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" class=\"add-linkout\">Ashdown, a former Royal Marine who served with the elite Special Boat Service, was long suspected to have been a real life James Bond. Now Sir Menzies has confirmed he worked for MI6.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" class=\"add-linkout\">The North East Fife MP revealed: &#8220;Put it this way, when he was in the Foreign Office, I think he was in the more shadowy side of Foreign Office activity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" class=\"add-linkout\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/news\/tm_headline=ashdown-was-a-spy%26method=full%26objectid=19782904%26siteid=66633-name_page.html\">http:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/news\/tm_headline=ashdown-was-a-spy%26method=full%26objectid=19782904%26siteid=66633-name_page.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EX-LIB Dem leader Lord Paddy Ashdown has been outed as a spy by successor Sir Menzies Campbell. Ashdown, a former Royal Marine who served with the elite Special Boat Service, was long suspected to have been a real life James Bond. Now Sir Menzies has confirmed he worked for MI6. The North East Fife MP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1614,1615],"tags":[55],"class_list":{"0":"post-1246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-surveillance-big-brother","7":"category-uk-news","8":"tag-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}