13 OCTOBER 1990, Page 31

Numbers game

Sir: I found Anne McElvoy's article both fascinating and instructive. However, she has got her MIs mixed up. The Bundesamt fur Verfassungschutz (created by the Brit- ish, by the way) is the German equivalent of MI5, and the Bundesnachrichtendienst is their MI6.

Brian Crozier

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