Double-o oops: Wife of new British spy chief puts family details on Facebook

UK spy chief’s family details posted on Facebook

LONDON — Photos and family details about the newly appointed head of Britain’s international spy agency have been removed from a social networking Web site.

The Mail on Sunday newspaper reports that the information was posted by the wife of John Sawers on her Facebook page.

Some opposition politicians say the revelations are a security breach, while others say they are just embarrassing.

Pictures from the site published in the newspaper show Sawers playing Frisbee on a beach in his swim trunks and wearing a Santa hat.

Sawers was named last month as the new head of the Secret Intelligence Service, or MI6. He is currently Britain’s ambassador to the United Nations.

Until the 1990s, the identity of the M16 chief, known as C, was kept secret.