#National Archives

Operation Gospel: How a Soldier's Desperate Need for Cash Led to the Sale of Top Secret UK and US Plans for Lebanon

A recently declassified operation, codenamed Gospel, reveals how a financially desperate Ministry of Defence soldier, Peter Sydney Allen, sold Top Secret UK and US plans for Lebanon to Egyptian and Iraqi agents in 1965. The case exposed lax security at the MoD and led to Allen's 10-year prison sentence.