Sutch revelations upset PM

Former Security Intelligence Service agents should honour the contracts they signed and not expose investigations they worked on, Prime Minister Helen Clark said yesterday.

Former New Zealand intelligence agent Kit Bennetts has broken a 30-year silence in his book Spy to explain the circumstances behind the 1974 arrest and ensuing espionage trial of Industry and Commerce Secretary and UN representative William Sutch.

Helen Clark, who is also the minister in charge of the SIS, said she had an issue with the book because SIS agents' contracts said "they should under no circumstances ever disclose what they worked on".