The victim's legal team says that her human rights were breached by MI5 as they failed to put safeguards in place to protect her from the agent. She is now pursuing a formal complaint through ...

The use of agents is difficult, human work that is governed by legislation and tightly overseen. It is fundamental to MI5’s ability to keep the UK safe.” A BBC investigation into Agent X found ...

Spies lie, but they are not meant to get caught. On a wet Friday evening in December, three MI5 lawyers sat in a room at the BBC's headquarters in London. On the other side of the table were the ...

MI5 lied to three courts while defending its handling of a misogynistic neo-Nazi state agent who attacked his girlfriend with a machete, the BBC can reveal. Arguing for secrecy, the Security ...

MI5 has admitted it provided “incorrect information” to the English courts in a case concerning an agent accused of domestic abuse. Sir Ken McCallum, the security service’s director-general, ...

Thames House in London, the headquarters for MI5 (picture: Getty Images ... the intelligence agency had lied to protect one of its agents. At a hearing today, the High Court heard that MI5 ...

The head of MI5 has serious questions to answer about his support for an agent accused of far-Right extremism and violence against women, according to a lawyer representing one of the victims.