Leslie Allen Aspin
Not to be confused with former US Congressman Les Aspin.
Leslie Allen Aspin was a former RAF corporal.[1]
According to an account which Aspin gave to the Sunday People, He was a smuggler transporting goods to the Middle East when he was arrested at Heathrow Airport in 1970, by Special Branch officers working for MI6. He was then recruited as an intelligence agent over a series of meetings with an intelligence officer known as 'Homer' and his deputy "Frank Abbott". He was sent back to the Middle East where he allegedly reported on Black September and other Palestinian groups, and tipped off Homer about the Claudia arms shipment from Libya to the Provisional IRA. After this was intercepted, Homer instructed Aspin to contact Kenneth Littlejohn, to set up another Libyan-IRA arms shipment, which was intercepted aboard the Sea Fox.[2]
In 1974, MI6 allegedly sent Aspin to find Littlejohn after his escape from Mountjoy Prison in the Republic of Ireland. He located him in 'The Pink Elephant' bar in Amsterdam in March that year, premises which were also the target of another MI6 operation targeting arms dealer James McCann. He attempted to persuade Littlejohn to return to London but failed.[3]
In 1976, Aspin was involved in the recruitment of a group of British mercenaries for the Angolan War.[4] Journalist Tony Geraghty met Aspin in the company of Nicholas Mervyn Hall in January 1976.[5]
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Notes
- ↑ Tony Geraghty, Guns for Hire: The Inside Story of Freelance Soldiering, Piatkus, 2008, .p.65.
- ↑ Jonathan Bloch, & Patrick Fitzgerald, British Intelligence and Covert Action, Brandon, 1983, pp.222-223.
- ↑ Jonathan Bloch, & Patrick Fitzgerald, British Intelligence and Covert Action, Brandon, 1983, pp.222-223.
- ↑ Jonathan Bloch, & Patrick Fitzgerald, British Intelligence and Covert Action, Brandon, 1983, pp.222-223.
- ↑ Tony Geraghty, Guns for Hire: The Inside Story of Freelance Soldiering, Piatkus, 2008, .p.65.
