London - An urgent inquiry was under way yesterday into how an MI6 officer mislaid a laptop computer containing classified material.
The incident was revealed in The Sun, just days after it reported that an MI5 officer had a laptop computer containing classified information on Northern Ireland stolen from an underground station.
The Foreign Office confirmed the MI6 laptop was lost on March 3rd and recovered by police two weeks later. A Foreign Office spokeswoman said: "It largely held training information - it was not something hugely damaging."
The Sun said the MI6 officer lost the laptop in a taxi after drinking at a tapas bar near MI6 headquarters on the south bank of the Thames. It claimed the service placed an anonymous advertisement in a newspaper offering a "substantial reward" to get the laptop back.