Seems things are not all honky Dory in MI6 !!! MI6 failed to reveal ‘serious criminality’ of agent to Government PA Dec 15th 2020 11:11PM MI6 failed to make clear to the Foreign Secretary that one of its spies overseas had gone rogue and engaged in serious criminal activity, a new report by Britain’s intelligence watchdog has revealed. The intelligence agency had been asking for renewed authorisation of the agent’s activities without being clear about the agent’s behaviour, the Investigatory Powers Commissioner’s Office (IPCO) latest annual report says. IPCO has censured MI6, or the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), for a range of shortcomings in its handling of its agents in the report, saying the Government “ought carefully to consider” if tighter oversight is needed over the operation of Britain’s spies abroad. We concluded ... SIS’s ‘red lines’ had most likely been breached, but the renewal submission failed to make this clear IPCO report The watchdog said the case of the rogue spy had come to light in a review of a submission made by MI6 under Section 7 of the Intelligence Services Act, used to allow British personnel to commit criminal acts in other countries. IPCO reviewed the case of what it called the “high-risk” agent, who SIS had discovered “may be involved in serious criminality overseas”. “SIS did not encourage, condone or approve any such criminality on the part of their agent,” the report says. SIS had gained the agent’s “full transparency about the activities in which the agent was involved”. The agency had then spelled out some clear “red lines” governing “conduct that was not authorised and would result in the termination of SIS’s relationship with the agent”. “On renewal, six months after the original submission, SIS set out a number of indicators that the agent may have been involved in, or have contemplated, the serious criminality referenced above,” the IPCO report says. “We concluded that, on the basis of this new information, SIS’s ‘red lines’ had most likely been breached, but the renewal submission failed to make this clear.” The IPCO report has led to calls from human rights campaigns for MI6 to improve how it handles its agents abroad (Andrew Milligan/PA) IPCO said while SIS’s submission provided information about criminality that may have occurred and noted an increased risk in the case, “it did not make expressly clear (to the Foreign Secretary) that SIS’s ‘red lines’ had probably been crossed”. “We concluded that the renewal did not provide a comprehensive overview of available information which we believe would have provided the Secretary of State with a fuller and more balanced picture,” the report said. While the report says SIS had “immediately responded to these concerns” by updating the Foreign Office, Human rights group Reprieve said revelations showed MI6 needed to greatly improve how it handled its spy network. “While our intelligence agencies do a vital job, this report rings alarm bells in its account of agents run amok,” Reprieve’s deputy director Dan Dolan told The Guardian. Mr Dolan said the Government “urgently needs to get a grip on unchecked lawbreaking by agents”, but that ministers were “rushing through legislation which places no clear limits on the crimes they can commit”. Commenting on the report on Tuesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson told The Daily Telegraph: “This Report demonstrates the high quality of the oversight of our security and intelligence agencies’ use of the most intrusive powers. I am satisfied that our arrangements are amongst the strongest and most effective in the world.”
One would think that in the real world to be an effective agent then breaking the law would seem to be inevitable ,I mean even things like wanting to intercept a telephone conversation, normally requires a warrant but in some cases there may not be time so it's just done and you sort out the paperwork later..I guess it depends on what you mean by "serious criminality" -supposedly murder..but that's what agents do isn't it..
I get lost in long english pragraphs. That is not my native language. How many foreign languages do you speak, Mr. Clever?
After all, a real MI 6 agent would not make love to all women either. But James Bond makes love to all women.
I don't know what IPCO has censured MI6 means either. I know MI 6 from 007 movies, but I don't know the rest. Neither do I know what the word censure means either. A man like you is actually pretty prat as you called me. English is your native language. And it is my foreign language. But you dont have a brain to get it.
MI6 failed to reveal ‘serious criminality’ of agent to Government Isn't that "The Nature of the beast"??
One must remember " M does not care if you want to make some money on the side, She would just prefer it not be government secrets."
