Courtesy of the HERALD SUN
MYSTERY deepens over the sudden illness of Britain's top spy after a neighbor said he was found covered in blood.
Alex Allan, 57, the chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, was still in a coma under police guard as doctors ran tests to try to identify what caused him to collapse.
He was found by painter Dominique Salm, who took over the studio in his home when his artist wife of 29 years died of cancer last year.
Neighbors said Ms Salm, 35, told them she found him slumped unconscious and "blood everywhere".
But Whitehall sources blamed pneumonia.
Experts say pneumonia sufferers may cough up some blood but rarely much.
Ms Salm's mother, Sally Ann Salm, said: "Some very serious people have asked Dominique not to comment on any of this until it has been fully investigated and she is doing just that. So am I."
A police source said it was "quickly established there was a medical reason for how he was found. He is being treated as a medical patient, not the victim of any kind of poisoning or other attempt on his life".
Mr Allan oversees the committee analyzing intelligence from MI5, MI6, GCHQ, and other sources.
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