By Patrick Spilling

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Act after a newspaper editor did pressure they have a thoroughly supply evidence to the police negative attitude towards right up to the last minute. nuclear war - they are opposed It was then that our wonderto it. ful government and police force The British Secret Service is a played their trump card. They highly sophisticated organisation, produced a man in a wig to order well practicsed in the art of the Guardian editor to return the sniffing out spies: documents.

But senior Secret Service men Like Superman confronted are still shaking in their boots at with Krypton, the editor was the thought of the new breed of rendered as weak as jelly. super-spy. They are used . to Taught from birth to shake Inveiling those who have sold and shiver at the very glimpse of secrets to the Soviet Union or a man in a wig, Preston collapsed. other foreign governments for "All right, take it," he sobbed. money. The rest is history.

They are now faced with a new form of horror, people who give secrets to the British public because they think they ought to know. • One source likened such leakers to the suicide Arab missions who are prepared to die to kill off US troops. "Quite frankly, old boy, we are powerless against it." he said.

In this case, the man who saved the day was the Guardian's editor. Ior years he had mas- Organiser queraded as a man of principle who would uphold the right of journalists to protect their sources, at whatever cost. SO badges 25p each, or £2 He continued to refuse for ten.