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EU ‘gets in way’ of CIA spy games, warns former chief

THE European Union sometimes “gets in the way” of intelligence operations, the former head of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) said yesterday.

General Michael Hayden waded into the ongoing EU referendum security debate stating that the EU was “not a natural contributor to national security” in member states.

He backed former MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove’s claim that the cost of a British exit from the EU would be low and could in fact improve security.

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