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MI5 lied to three courts to protect violent neonazi agent, BBC reports
MI5 director general Ken McCallum delivers a speech at Counter Terrorism Operations Centre in west London, October 8, 2024

A VIOLENT machete-armed misogynist and neonazi state agent was protected by MI5, which lied to three courts on his behalf, according to a BBC report today.

The Security Service told judges that it would not confirm or deny the identity of its agents, although it admitted to a BBC reporter that the man, identified only as Agent X, was in fact working for it.

MI5 has now been forced to apologise to the three courts that heard cases relating to X’s treatment of his then partner.

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