UK used Cyprus base to ‘secretly’ move ‘sensitive equipment’

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Declassified files raise further questions about the role of Britain’s Cyprus base in supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza 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.” Cyprus is “one of the few areas where the…

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