London - (Espionage Mess): UK security intelligence top brass have hinted heavily that the January 2006 headlines about a 'fake rock dumped in a Moscow street, embedded with a transmitter and used to download surveillance material on to a palm-top computer' was a counter-intelligence spoof.
"The story was a cover for a secret op into the bugging of ex-Northern Rock Bank CEO Adam Applecart, the man who lost the bank's £50 billion and is the current top suspect accomplice in the French investigation of the rogue trader who wiped $7 billion dollars from the SocGen balance sheet," a spokesman at MI6 said today.
The Northern Crock Bank collapsed last year and the missing £50 billion has to be met by the UK taxpayer, to the universal disgust of 99.9% of British voters.
Now spooks' sources are admitting that the original 2006 'fake rock' headline-grabbing Moscow news story that provoked such outrage among smug Putinophiles was really a spoof.
The news may come as a surprise to the many UK broadsheets which claimed similar devices like the fake "rock" - mostly made of plastic or rubber - had been used routinely in intelligence gathering to send encrypted messages for several years.
"But all the time the anti-terror cops were secretly bugging the Northern Crock CEO after CIA reports that he was a top Opus Dei operative," a Defence Intelligence Register editorial said today.
"Applecrap was secretly in charge of laundering crack cocaine money into Scientology slush funds on behalf of his Opus Dei masters.
"Cherie Blair was pulling all the strings and was on a hefty 10% retainer of any profits.
"The scam financed the activities of international hackers who are still blackmailing national utility companies and causing severe electricity outages worldwide," the editorial added.
UK Prime Monster Gorgon Brown is medically certifiable.
