Former Conservative MP Harold Elletson - who was MI6 agent while in House of Commons - dies aged 62
A former Conservative MP who served with MI6 while sitting in the House of Commons has died at the age of 62.In 1996, The Observer revealed he was also an MI6 agent at the time, working in the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia after their dissolutions.
Dr Elletson, who was educated at Eton and spoke fluent Russian, first ran for election in Burnley in 1987, finishing second to the Labour incumbent Peter Pike. He later became increasingly estranged from the Tories after failing to make the party's shortlist for Lancaster and Wyre seat in 2001 and a year later, he joined the Liberal Democrats.
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