US, Brits spar over use of bases on Cyprus

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A senior administration official then met with the Foreign Office's head of defense and intelligence, who appeared to strike a more conciliatory tone. The British official said the discussions over spy flights were "unnecessarily confrontational" and backed away from demands over detainees captured as a result of the Lebanon spy flights, the embassy wrote.

But the official said Washington had gotten "sloppy" in its use of the Greek Cyprus base, and that the Americans need to fully inform Britain about operations involving third countries, the cable said.

Despite U.S. objections, the official insisted that requests for future flights be made through the U.S. embassy in London and between both governments instead of only going through military channels, it said. The official said the then British foreign secretary David Miliband believed that "policymakers needed to get control of the military."

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=wikileaks-us-uk-argued-over-use-of-greek-cyprus-air-base-2010-12-03

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1. Policy makers need to get control of the military

There's a novel idea.