Holiday photos and family details about the newly appointed head of Britain’s MI6 intelligence agency have been removed from a facebook page after a newspaper reported it to government officials.
Pictures from the social networking web site published in the mail on Sunday show John Sawers posing with children, wearing a Santa hat and playing Frisbee on a beach.
The Associated Press stated the information was posted by Sawers’ wife on her Facebook page. The page contained vacation photos, details regarding their children and the location of their London home.
Shelly Sawers’ page has since been removed from Facebook, although a cached page can still be viewed that shows a picture of Sawers’ wife.
"It’s not a state secret that he wears Speedo swimming trunks," said Foreign Secretary David Miliband. "For goodness’ sake, let’s grow up."
The Foreign Office would not comment further on the case.
John Sawers, 53, was named last month as the new head of the Secret Intelligence Service, or MI6, Britain’s foreign intelligence agency. A former spy, diplomat and foreign policy adviser to ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair, he is currently Britain’s ambassador to the United Nations.
He’s a spy who came in from the beach.
The Associated Press stated the information was posted by Sawers’ wife on her Facebook page. The page contained vacation photos, details regarding their children and the location of their London home. 
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