SUB-ROSA NEWS

Some of the News
That may be True


News Item: Russia accuses four British diplomats of spying with the use of a rock
located near Moscow. A grainy, black-and-white video - broadcast on
state television - purported to show a British diplomat picking up a
watermelon-sized rock concealing a communications device used to
download and transmit classified information through hand-held computers.

Comment: It is heartening to learn that British Intelligence has responded
swiftly with its usual skill and creativity. Intelligence Chief Sir
Rufus Campbell announced that the service had apprehended and
quarantined two of the stones at Stonehenge suspected of harboring
secret Russian listening and transmission devices.