UK used Cyprus base to ‘secretly’ move ‘sensitive equipment’

UK used Cyprus base to ‘secretly’ move ‘sensitive equipment’

Britain has used its major air base on Cyprus to move sensitive equipment without scrutiny, declassified files show.The Ministry of Defence (MoD) wrote in a formerly secret 1993 file that RAF Akrotiri plays a “key role in support of the Priority 1, Category A intelligence and communications effort” on Cyprus.It added that “this secure airhead enables MOD and OGD [other government departments] to move sensitive equipment to and from Cyprus secret…