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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Martin Bentham

GCHQ ‘spy’ stabbing: Hostile state not to blame, claim police

Counter-terror police investigating the stabbing of a woman believed to be an American spy working at GCHQ’s headquarters do not think the attack was organised by a hostile state, the Standard understands.

The unnamed victim suffered serious injuries after being stabbed outside a leisure centre a few miles from the intelligence agency’s base in Cheltenham.

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