STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Friday, 20 January 2012

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11. HUMOR, UNINTENTIONAL: UK admits to deploying ‘spy rock’ in Russia FROM THE LAND OF MONTY PYTHON

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Propaganda gift for Putin after ex-Blair aide says Moscow’s 2006 allegations that British diplomats used a fake rock to transmit secret data were true

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/19/fake-rock-plot-spy-russians

Britain was behind a plot to spy on Russians with a device hidden in a fake plastic rock, a former key UK government official has admitted.

Jonathan Powell, former chief of staff to prime minister Tony Blair, admitted in a BBC documentary that allegations made by the Russians in 2006 - dismissed at the time - were in fact true.

"The spy rock was embarrassing," he said in the BBC2 documentary series, Putin, Russia and the West. "They had us bang to rights. Clearly they had known about it for some time and had been saving it up for a political purpose."

VIDEO OF ROCK IN ACTION http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2012/jan/19/uk-spy-russia-rock-video