Student finds secret file

LONDON - A document listing telephone numbers for MI5, SAS and nuclear research chiefs, has been found dumped.

LONDON - A document listing telephone numbers for MI5, SAS and nuclear research chiefs, has been found dumped.

A student found it at an old aircraft hangar in Cranfield, Bedfordshire. According to the News of the World, it contains highly sensitive information - a Who's Who of secret numbers which would pose a massive security threat in the hands of terrorists.

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