Intelligence watchdog finds MI5 knew agent was abusive far-right misogynist
MI5 was fully aware that an agent it employed was a far-right misogynist abuser who was obsessed with violence. The office of the investigatory powers commissioner (IPCO) watchdog has now said none of this appeared to concern the agent’s MI5 handlers. A woman, known only as X, whom the agent brutally abused, has called for a full apology. Legal magazine the Justice Gap reported on 7 July: MI5 enacted a cover up after one of their agents, a neo-Nazi obsessed with violence, attacked his then partner, known as Beth. Adding: Following reporting by the BBC, about which the government took legal…
