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US security agents to guard UK airports during Olympics | Security agents from the United States will guard Heathrow and various other
airports in the United
Kingdom during the London Olympics. The British Department for Transport has reached
an agreement with the U.S. Transportation Security Administration for specialist
agents to be work at several UK airports. These agents will arrive a week before
the Olympics, and leave around a week after the end of the Paralympics. "This
is an added security layer that has been done to help boost and aid the American
airlines in particular that fly in and out of the likes of Heathrow and other
airports," Sky News quoted its Home Affairs correspondent Mark White, as saying.
"Nonetheless it is a very unusual occurrence and is significant," he added. The
move is aimed at helping U.S. carriers in particular, but also UK airlines flying
in and out of America . Athletes have started to arrive in London ahead of the
Games, and the agents will not be allowed beyond boarding gates, or onto UK aircraft.
Olympic security is already under scrutiny after thousands of extra soldiers and
police officers were drafted in to fill a gap left by private contractor G4S.
Athletes started to arrive in the UK on Monday, on what was Heathrow Airport 's
busiest ever day.
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