"Martin Rowley" wrote :
"Graham P Davis" wrote in message
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They're all great episodes. Actually, I think the mole didn't bury the
report - that would have been Sir Humphrey or a minion - he warned the PM
about the practice of hiding delicate information at the bottom of the
bottom red box.

... just to get the story right (for the Google archive)

... the 'mole' (or 'plant' really) was Luke, who was the Foreign Office
clerk in the No.10 office - i.e., 'their' man in No.10, though nominally
the PM's contact point for the FO.

Luke wrote the "Northern Indian Ocean: Situation Report" and placed it at
the bottom of the FO 'Red Box' for the PM. Hacker (PM) found it, without
prompting, after he had had a little chat with the Israeli Ambassador.
Hacker was, by this time, experienced enough in the ways of the Civil
Service to understand that anything 'vital' would be carefully hidden!

[ "Yes Prime Minister", The Diaries of the Righ Hon. James Hacker, Volume
1 / 1986 ]

That episode was actually on GOLD last week!

Philip