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Don't show me this message again✕ John Le Carre has died aged 89 (Rex Features) John le Carre, the writer whose fiction illuminated the ambiguities of espionage and treachery more than any factual accounts could ever do, died last weekend at the age of 89. And he would surely have savoured the irony. The timing was such that appreciative obituaries and warm personal memoirs found themselves sharing media space with some of the more tantalising glimpses afforded to the British public in recent years of the often uneasy relationship between spies and the law.  One of these, worthy of a Le C...

MI6 May Have Let Spies Commit Crimes in UK: Tribunal A UK intelligence services watchdog tribunal heard on Wednesday that MI6 may have authorised spies to commit crimes in the UK, possibly without any limits on their extent. According to campaigners, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal found that the UK’s foreign intelligence secret service MI6 and GCHQ, its intelligence communications service, may have breached their remit by operating under a policy to break the law in the UK that the government had unjustifiably asked them to keep secret. Justice organisation Reprieve confirmed in an email...

Spy chiefs may have illegally authorised British agents to commit serious crimes in the UK, a tribunal heard. MI6 – the foreign intelligence service – is able to authorise spies it recruits overseas to commit crimes. But it cannot permit criminal operations by agents in the UK. A ruling by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal said MI6 and GCHQ informants may have been allowed ‘to participate in criminal activity in the UK’, and raised the question of ‘whether that conduct was lawful’. A ruling by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal said MI6 and GCHQ informants may have been allowed �...

The cost of courage: Australia must do more to protect whistleblowers We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Opinion By Kieran Pender Normal text size Advertisement As we reach the end of 2020, four individuals – Bernard Collaery, Witness K, David McBride and Richard Boyle – are being prosecuted by our government. These whistleblowers spoke up in the public interest, and now face the very real prospect of jail time. If we want to live in a transparent, accountable democracy, that should trouble us all. Collaery and Witness K revealed that Aus...

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 ...