Fascinating article in today's Sunday Times by its former editor Harold Evans on the murder in Cairo in 1977 of the paper's chief foreign correspondent David Holden.
In a piece taken from his soon to be published autobiography, My Paper Chase, Evans says that Holden's murder could have been a joint operation by the CIA and the Egyptians.
He also claims that thefts from the Sunday Times at the time of the murder suggested that there was a spy on the paper who tracked Holden's movements in the Middle East.
Evans conclusion is startling: "In the mists of circumstance and conjecture, we are left only with the certainty that Holden was foully murdered and with the aching suspicion that he died not for journalism but for some secret cause he had betrayed.
We should give him the benefit of the doubt — but no journalist should ever agree to act for an intelligence agency, whatever the invocation or however strong the desire to be patriotic."
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