It remained unclear how much involvement the spy agencies MI5 and GCHQ would have in the new set-up. |
This is as if the Spycatcher affair ten years ago hadn't showed MI5 to be a nest of hard right conspirators. |
Blunt, we are told, meets Chubb, his new MI5 debriefer, for the first time six years after his 1964 confession. |
That was despite MI5 agents eventually providing documentary evidence to prove the men had been in Britain. |
Whitehall is also said to be considering laws to allow transcripts of phone conversations bugged by MI5 to be used as evidence in court. |
Few of the people in MI6 or MI5, the counterintelligence service, would divulge anything at all. |