Military spokesman Colonel Sumedha Perera has urged media personnel to be cautious when they deal with issues regarding the glossary of military terms.
Colonel Perera, referring to a discussion which took place on the Sirasa News Line programme on March 26 between 7.30 am and 8.30 am regarding a safe house maintained by military intelligence personnel at Millennium City, Athurugiriya, has explained the military's point of view on the reference made to the 'Safe House'.
He was described a safe house as 'a house or a flat provided with suitable cover and held at the disposition of the intelligence service for secret meetings or the temporary lodging of an agent under safe conditions. It is difficult to maintain a safe house within an enemy concentration area, where it would be particularly vulnerable and they are more often used i an area outside enemy territory where the intelligence service enjoys some measures of protection.
"Further according to American Intelligence pamphlet 'In the Intelligence Trade, a safe house is a secret refuge for spies engaging in covert operations and in the Glossary of Intelligence Trade Idioms defined safe house as a 'seemingly innocent house or premises established by Intelligence organisations for conducting clandestine activities in relative security.'
"Therefore, Army Headquarters is of the opening that it is best to leave issues of this nature to professionals in this particular field."
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