MI6 kept quiet about 'criminality' of agent with ‘licence to kill’
by Dan Sabbagh Defence and security editor from on (#5BPER)
UK foreign secretary not told about behaviour of high risk agent' when asked to re-authorise special status
MI6 failed to make clear to the foreign secretary that a high risk agent" operating overseas had probably engaged in serious criminality" until it was pointed out by an independent regulator last year.
The spy agency was asking the minister - either Dominic Raab or his predecessor, Jeremy Hunt - to renew authorisation of the agent's activities despite the apparent criminality without being expressly clear" as to what had happened.
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