Alamy Sir Brian Leveson is the Investigatory Powers Commissioner, responsible for overseeing MI5’s activities The watchdog charged with holding MI5 to account rewrote a report into the handling of a violent neo-Nazi agent after the Security Service gave it false information, the BBC can reveal. An early draft of the report by the Investigatory Powers...
PA Media MI5 told the court everyone from director general Ken McCallum downwards acknowledged the seriousness of the false evidence MI5 lied “deliberately and repeatedly” as it tried to defend its handling of a neo-Nazi agent who abused women, the BBC has told a panel of High Court judges. The corporation argued the threshold for...
Press Association Guy Burgess’s passport and briefcase left behind when he fled to Moscow in 1951 A battered leather briefcase left behind by Guy Burgess when he fled to Moscow in 1951 is among 20 objects from MI5’s archives to go on display for the first time from Saturday. A joint exhibition with the National...