THE TELEGRAPH: A young French teacher released on Sunday by Iran after being held on espionage charges was actually working with the French MI6, a former senior French spy claimed yesterday.
Clotilde Reiss, 24, who was held for ten months in Iran on spying charges, had worked "very well" for France, according to Pierre Siramy, a former high-ranking member of France's external intelligence service, the DGSE.
The claims sparked instant consternation and denials from the French intelligence community, as the official foreign ministry line has always been that she was an innocent academic with no links to spying.
Mr Siramy said she was not a spy "in the classic sense of the word", but worked "à l'anglaise"(in the English style). In other words she "bravely" handed over information on an "amicable" basis for the good of the country.
"She was our representative's contact," said Mr Siramy.
In this capacity she provided reports on domestic politics in the run up to last July's presidential elections and on a nuclear site under construction next to the central town of Isfahan where she was an assistant university teacher, said Mr Siramy.
"She deserves to be recognised as someone who worked very well (for France)," he said. >>> Henry Samuel in Paris | Monday, May 17, 2010
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