In 1997 , Machon and Shayler resigned from the service . Intending to blow the whistle on a series of alleged crimes committed by the service , the couple took classified documents to '' The Mail on Sunday '' ; the first story published on the penultimate Sunday of August 1997 concerned Peter Mandelson , whose telephone had been bugged for three years in the early 1970s . A court injunction prevented claims about what the security services knew about the IRA from being revealed . The couple claimed the British government had been involved in an assassination attempt against Colonel Gaddafi and that the security services had foreknowledge of the 1994 London Israeli Embassy bombing and the IRA 's City of London bombing
City of London bombing
1993 Bishopsgate bombing
Annie Machon