Article 3NEXE The BBC finally admits that MI5 secretly vetted its employees, an open secret for generations

The BBC finally admits that MI5 secretly vetted its employees, an open secret for generations

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Cory Doctorow
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My wife -- whose father is a TV director who'd worked for the BBC -- learned as a little girl that the British spy agency MI5 secretly vetted people who applied for work at the BBC and denoted possible subversives by putting a doodle of a Christmas tree on their personnel files; people who were thus blacklisted were discriminated against within the Beeb. (more")

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