It's different on Ascension Island

The Scotsman | May 15, 1999| | Copyright

IF YOU ever land at Ascension Island, a speck of a British colony just south of the equator and slap bang in the middle of the Atlantic, it's odds on that you are doing one of two things. One: you are in the middle of suffering a 20-hour flight on an RAF Tristar, from RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire to the Mount Pleasant airbase in the Falkland Islands. Two: you are a spy, because Ascension is principally a top-secret spook centre busily engaged in satellite espionage.

Perhaps the spies sneak off to a concealed door where a retina scan permits them entry to an underground facility full of ...

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