U.S. spies drew up dossier on government ministers William Hague and Alan Duncan
By Daily Mail ReporterLast updated at 9:41 AM on 29th November 2010
U.S. spies drew up a dossier on Alan Duncan, the openly gay former oil trader who is international development minister.
The cables reveal that American intelligence chiefs were particularly interested in the Tory frontbencher when he was his party’s prisons spokesman.
Mr Duncan once shared a London flat with William Hague, the married Foreign Secretary who recently denied public speculation about his own sexuality.
Dossier: American spies drew up files on William Hague (left) and Alan Duncan
On January 22 – four months before Tories formed a coalition with the LibDems – a cable about Mr Duncan was signed off by Elissa Pitterle, head of intelligence operations at the State Department.
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She described it as ‘particularly insightful and exceptionally well timed, as analysts are preparing finished products on the Conservative leadership for senior policymakers’.
The cable called for further intelligence on ‘Duncan’s relationship with Conservative party leader David Cameron and William Hague’, and asked: ‘What role would Duncan play if the Conservatives form a government? What are Duncan’s political
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