The World - News from June 20, 1988

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher warned Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir last year that Britain could censure his country’s secret service over its activities in England, a British television program said. “The World in Action,” being screened today, says Thatcher wrote to Shamir in October saying that the Mossad intelligence agency risked being classed as “unfriendly” if it tried again to infiltrate terrorist groups in Britain without her government’s knowledge. The change from its currently “friendly” classification would effectively ban Mossad from Britain. Last week, Britain expelled an Israeli envoy in connection with a secret Mossad operation.