John Key has ANOTHER attack of amnesia

PM confirms spies met in Wellington

A number of foreign spies held a meeting in Wellington last week, Prime Minister John Key has confirmed.

TVNZ,

4 December, 2012

Key has been coy about the identity of a mysterious senior American official who flew into the capital. "I just don't know," he told reporters this morning.

But he has confirmed "a number" of US intelligence officials were here for a meeting.

"There was a routine meeting held in New Zealand last week...with a number of other countries," he said.

However, he has denied it was a meeting of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, made up of the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

Key - who has responsibility for the intelligence agencies - says he was not involved in the meeting and does not know what was discussed.

"I don't track every official that comes to New Zealand. People come all the time. Some come on planes, some don't...I don't bother going to ask who's on those particular planes."

He agreed it must have been a senior figure in US President Barack Obama's administration.

"There'd be lots of senior and important people that come to New Zealand," said Key.

Pressed by reporters for the second day running on the passenger, he has agreed to find out more.

"If someone parks a US plane at Wellington airport, in my opinion, that doesn't count as a secret.

"If someone was secretly trying to get into New Zealand you presumably won't park a marked plane at Wellington airport," he said.

Five Eyes meets regularly across the globe. They are believed to have met in New Zealand in September.

Days after that meeting, Key ordered an investigation into illegal spying by the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) on internet piracy accused Kim Dotcom

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Kim Dotcom ‏@KimDotcom

Senior US spy flies in on a 60 million dollar private jet. Meets GCSB because US Govt used them "illegally" to spy on a NZ resident?

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